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Cambodia probes Chinese firm over illegal waste imports

Posted on July 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia is investigating a locally based Chinese firm for illegally importing around 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste from the United States and Canada, the Southeast Asian…

The ambitious plan to recover and rewild the feisty, dwarf cow

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Jeremy Hance | 0 Comments

Don’t let appearances fool you. The animal pictured above — the dwarf cattle known as tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) from the island of Mindoro in the Philippines — may look cute;…

Bioluminescent plankton hunters capture 'magical' glow

Posted on July 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC Media playback is unsupported on your device “Every splash, every jump, made the sea just light up. It won’t be an experience we forget easily.” Photographers and nature…

Expiring U.S. solar subsidy spurs rush for panels

Posted on July 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - America’s biggest solar power developers are stockpiling panels to lock in a 30% federal tax credit set to start phasing out next year, a strategy that…

Home – The Allegheny Front

Posted on July 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

An artist discusses what trees mean to her work. Citizens stepped in to protect water from fracking waste when Ohio regulators did not. Environmentalists, religious leaders, and members of indigenous…

Painted lady butterfly influx needs people to count them

Posted on July 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC A potential mass influx of butterflies to the UK has led to calls for volunteers to help count them. The painted lady butterfly commonly flies to the UK…

Colombia court upholds conditions for restarting aerial coca fumigation

Posted on July 19, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia’s constitutional court on Thursday upheld its own restrictions on the aerial spraying of the herbicide glyphosate to eliminate coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, but said…

Apollo 11: Few indoor loos, but there was a man on the Moon

Posted on July 18, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC Fifty years ago James Burke, Magnus Magnusson and Cliff Michelmore were the presenters leading the BBC’s coverage of the Moon landing. In the week prior to the landing,…

Apollo 11: 'I helped the world watch Moon landing'

Posted on July 18, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC About 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon in July 1969. But many of those pictures were only possible thanks to a…

Trump EPA allows use of controversial pesticide

Posted on July 18, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it will not ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked to health issues in children, from use…