5 hours ago From Resource Investing News  View Original Article

Vancouver, CANADA - Bloomberg reported that although lawmakers in the Norwegian capital of Oslo are considering banning their country’s sovereign wealth fund from investing in coal companies, Norway has nevertheless opened a new coal mine on the Svalbard archipelago.

5 hours ago From Phys.org  View Original Article

Douglas, Isle of Man, U K - The Australian state of Queensland is in the grip of its most widespread drought ever, with close to 80 percent of its territory parched after a failed wet season, officials said Friday.

Australia is famous for its droughts and floodin ...

5 hours ago From Sydney Morning Herald  View Original Article

Sydney, AUSTRALIA - A coal seam gas project operated by energy company Santos in north-western NSW has contaminated a nearby aquifer, with uranium at levels 20 times higher than safe drinking water guidelines, an official investigation has found.

It is th ...

5 hours ago From Sydney Morning Herald  View Original Article

Sydney, AUSTRALIA - The O’Farrell government has opened the way for the state’s forests to be used to generate electricity in a move blasted by the Greens as “devastating”.

Anthony Roberts, the Minister for Resources and Energy, said on Friday that modifi ...

5 hours ago From The Guardian  View Original Article

London, U K - The winter storms that battered the country caused the greatest loss of trees in a generation in some areas, the National Trust has said.

Woodlands, parks and gardens cared for by the trust have seen the worst damage for more than two ...

24 hours ago From Wildlife Extra News  View Original Article

Hereford, U K - It's good news for humpbacks as Japan has designated the Kerama Islands and surrounding waters in Okinawa Prefecture as the country’s 31st national park and the first in three decades.

These waters are also famed as a breeding ground ...

27 hours ago From BBC News  View Original Article

London, U K - A slurry spillage of more than 400,000 gallons has polluted a river in County Tyrone.

Around three miles of the River Ballinderry may have been affected after the slurry escaped from a farm in the Cookstown area.

The env ...

28 hours ago From Times of India  View Original Article

New Delhi, INDIA - In an effort to reduce their excessive dependence on grid power, five companies in Bangalore - Infosys, Cognizant, Coke, Philips and Bangalore International Exhibition Center - have come together to set up an aggregate solar power project.

29 hours ago From Phys.org  View Original Article

Douglas, isle of Man, U K - Campaigners warned Thursday of environmental threats from new oil-prospecting projects off Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands, two major tourist destinations.

Campaign group Ecologists in Action said in a report that 10 oil installati ...

29 hours ago From Phys.org  View Original Article

Douglas, Isle of Man, U K - U.S. federal forecasters predict a warming of the central Pacific Ocean this year that will change weather worldwide.

The warming, called an El Nino, can mean an even hotter year coming up and billions of dollars in losses for food cro ...