Enbridge suspends work on pipeline expansion following inspection
Canada’s largest pipeline company, Enbridge, says it suspended work on an expansion project in the Rocky Mountain foothills of northeastern British Columbia to address safety and environmental...
FCC Secures €173m Waste & Recycling Contract in Bilbao, Spain
In Spain, Bilbao City Council has awarded a JV in which environmental services firm FCC has the majority shareholding, a €43 million contract to cleanse the streets and collect the refuse in the...
Will European supermarkets act over Paraguay forest destruction?
No tropical forests anywhere in the world are being destroyed more rapidly than the Chaco stretching across Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Not the Amazon in Brazil, nor in Indonesia, Malaysia or...
International team witness massacre of protected #birds in #Lebanon
Over the last two days the international team of ‘Bird Guards’ (1) from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) witnessed...
Fire at Dutch refinery reveals Europe’s dependence on imported diesel
Europe is known to be dependent on imported crude oil. But an incident at the EU’s biggest refinery this summer has shown that the European continent has also become dependent on import of diesel...
Monaco-backed circumnavigating study will report on the health of our oceans
A ground-breaking new scientific study, will examine the impact of climate change and other environmental factors on the world’s marine ecosystem. The 2017-20 Monaco Explorations campaign, which is...
Charting the Planet’s Path to 100% Renewable Energy
How quickly could the majority of planet wean itself off of coal, oil, and gas? For $124.7 trillion, perhaps within just a few decades.That’s according to the latest research by the Stanford...
ISOLATING MERCURY TO PROTECT FOOD CHAINS
Mercury gets a bad rap, and rightly so. It is incredibly toxic to many organisms, and it accumulates in the food chain. That means animals at the top of the food chain, including us humans, often...
