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Malaysia’s Indigenous People Intensify Anti-Dam Battle
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on December 23rd, 2013
Environment News Service: The strongest wave of indigenous protests since the 1990s is underway in Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. On International Human Rights Day, December 10, hundreds of people across the state demonstrated against a series of 12 mega-dams planned by the government company Sarawak Energy.
Bakun dam on the Balui River, the world`s second largest dam, is complete and began operating in 2011, while the second in the series, Murum dam, is nearing completion.
If all the dams are built,...
Canadian Panel Approves Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on December 20th, 2013
Environment News Service: The Joint Review Panel for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project today recommended that the federal government approve the multi-billion dollar pipeline, subject to 209 required conditions. The Government of Canada is expected to make its final decision on the pipeline by July 2014.
Conservation groups condemned the decision, saying that the three-member panel`s recommendation ignores overwhelming scientific evidence against the pipeline and widespread public opposition.
The...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on December 13th, 2013
Environment News Service: An Asian Judges Network on Environment has been formally launched in Manila, marking a new stage of cooperation among justices charged with enforcing environmental laws and helping to preserve Asia's natural capital.
The three-day Second Asian Judges Symposium on Environment held last week drew eminent judges and representatives of courts, environment ministries, prosecutor's offices, the legal profession, and civil society from the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
The Asian Development Bank...
Safeguarding World’s Most Irreplaceable Protected Areas
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on November 15th, 2013
Environment News Service: The world`s most irreplaceable site for threatened species is Colombia`s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Natural National Park, a fact that has emerged from new research identifying the protected areas most critical to preventing extinctions.
The Santa Marta woodstar, a hummingbird endemic to Colombia`s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Natural National Park (Photo by L.E. Urueña / Birds of Colombia)
Of the world`s 3,057 endangered species, 44 are found in this park near Colombia`s mountainous northern...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on November 10th, 2013
Environment News Service: Super Typhoon Yolanda, known outside the Philippines as Haiyan, battered parts of the Philippine archipelago on Friday, making landfall six times before blowing westward on Saturday over the South China Sea towards northern Vietnam and southern China.
The worst storm in Philippine history blasted through the country, packing winds of 235 kilometers per hour (147 miles per hour) with gusts of 275 kph (170 mph). Yolanda`s storm surge caused ocean waters to rise up to six meters (20 feet).
Only...
Obama Creates Interagency Council and Task Force on Climate
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on November 1st, 2013
Environment News Service: To prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change already being felt across the country, President Barack Obama today established an interagency Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, chaired by the White House and composed of more than 25 federal agencies.
In his Executive Order establishing the council, the President also created the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience to advise the administration and the new interagency council...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on October 24th, 2013
Environment News Service: Live ordnance training exercises conducted by the Australian Army last week touched off a catastrophic bushfire that has burned
more than 47,000 hectares of bushland, a New South Wales Rural Fire Service investigation has determined.
The State Mine fire started on Marrangaroo Army Range in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales near the city of near Lithgow last Wednesday, October 16. There were no total fire bans in place at the time.
Acting Minister for Defence Senator George Brandis said...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 26th, 2013
Environment News Service: Residents of three states who say they were harmed by gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, held a news conference in front of the White House today to demand that the government reopen investigations into fracking-related drinking water pollution in Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming.
They then delivered 250,000 signatures on a petition stating their demands to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy at EPA headquarters.
The residents were all part of EPA...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 24th, 2013
Environment News Service: Two hurricanes which struck Mexico last week have claimed the lives of 115 people as rescuers continue to search for 68 others believed to have died in a massive landslide in a remote coffee-growing village.
A 16-person emergency response and rescue team from the Mexican army is leading the search for victims of the slide in the village of La Pintada two hours drive north of Acapulco. Five bodies were found on Sunday.
Hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel made landfall on opposite coasts within a day...
Malaysia: Indigenous Penan Again Blockade Murum River Dam
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 19th, 2013
Environment News Service: The Penan indigenous people affected by the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo have renewed their blockade of the dam site.
They say are protesting because the state government has failed to fulfill their demands for fair compensation, enough land for farming and a share in the profits flowing from the dam.
Penan blockaders at the Murum dam site, September 2013 (Photo courtesy Bruno Manser Fund)
The Sarawak government's US$1.3 billion Murum dam will impound...
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