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India aims to provide clean water to all rural houses by 2024

Posted on June 15, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that piped water will reach all homes in the countryside by 2024, setting a tough target at a time when hundreds of millions don’t have access to clean…

Exclusive: U.N. chief calls on EU to raise 2030 climate goal to 55%

Posted on June 15, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the European Union to aim for a 55% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, far more than the bloc’s current target for a 40% reduction. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres…

High Flooding On Lake Ontario And St. Lawrence River

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Emily Russell | 0 Comments

From NPR The U.S. and Canada are under pressure to show a water control plan for the area along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River didn’t actually make flooding worse. Read the full article from NPR

Plastic pollution: Bangor divers cleaning up the seabed

Posted on June 14, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC You might have heard of people doing a traditional beach clean up, but what about all the rubbish underwater? A group of divers from voluntary organisation Seasearch have started carrying special bags to allow them to collect littler…

Largest world stock of animal-killing virus destroyed by UK lab

Posted on June 14, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC Scientists have destroyed the UK’s laboratory stocks of a virus that once caused devastating cattle losses. These stocks accounted for most of the world’s lab samples of rinderpest, which were held at The Pirbright Institute in Surrey. Rinderpest…

Pope warns oil bosses of climate threat

Posted on June 14, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC The Pope has told oil company bosses that climate change threatens the future of the “human family”. The oil executives had been invited to the Vatican in Rome for an audience with the pontiff. Pope Francis said a…

Pope backs carbon pricing to stem global warming and appeals to deniers

Posted on June 14, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing is “essential” to stem global warming - his clearest statement yet in support of penalizing polluters - and appealed to climate change deniers to listen to science. FILE…

Killing Coyotes Is Not As Effective As Once Thought, Researchers Say

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Melodie Edwards | 0 Comments

From NPR Government agencies kill more than 68,000 coyotes a year to keep them from preying on livestock and big game. But scientists say tracking them might be a better solution. (Image credit: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images) Read the full article…

Exotic pet trade responsible for hundreds of invasive species around the globe

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Mike Gaworecki | 0 Comments

Last April, a male Burmese python led researchers at the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades straight to a 17-foot female that was carrying 73 developing eggs. The researchers had outfitted the male python with a radio transmitter,…

Carbon pricing “essential” to stem global warming, pope tells energy leaders

Posted on June 14, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis leaves the weekly general audience at the Vatican, June 12, 2019. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File PhotoVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing, used by many governments to make energy consumers pay for the…