Environmental News Network

As Insurgency Ebbs, Kashmir Looks To Save Dal Lake
Raw sewage, land encroachment and years of neglect have been threatening the survival of a lake where visitors from Mughal emperors to George Harrison once enjoyed the idyllic stillness of its waters surrounded by Himalayan mountains. >> Read the Full Article
Report Finds That Big California Farms Get Unfair Electricity Subsidy to Pump Water
Some of the nation's largest farming operations are paying rock-bottom rates for the electricity they use to pump federally subsidized water to their fields. About 7,000 giants of California farming get their water from the Central Valley Project, a vast irrigation system that pumps water from mountain rivers through canals spanning the state's fertile interior. >> Read the Full Article
Drought Reduces Level of Lake Okeechobee, Threatens Water Supply in South Florida
Lake Okeechobee was expected to drop this week to its lowest level on record, threatening a key source of water for nearly 5 million people and the Everglades during South Florida's worst known drought. >> Read the Full Article
Palm Oil Puts Squeeze on Endangered Orangutan
Branded pests for venturing out from their diminishing forest habitats into plantations where they eat young palm shoots, orangutans could be extinct in the wild in ten years time, the United Nations said in March. >> Read the Full Article
Climate To Push Up Australian Power Costs, Study Shows
Electricity prices could rise by up to 75 percent from 2020 if Australia's government refuses to take strong climate change action and set up a carbon trading system, Australia's Climate Institute said on Monday. >> Read the Full Article
Trouble Brews in Germany as Biofuel Boom Jacks Up Price of Beer
In the last two years, the price of barley has doubled to euro200 (US$271) from euro102 per ton as farmers plant more crops such as rapeseed and corn that can be turned into ethanol or bio-diesel, a fuel made from vegetable oil. >> Read the Full Article
Global Experts Urge Joint Efforts To Find New Energy Sources for Vehicles
International car manufacturers and energy experts on Thursday urged increased global efforts to find new sources of renewable energy for vehicles -- including advanced biofuels -- in a move to reduce the speed of global warming. >> Read the Full Article
The Coral Sea Vista Opened Up By British Judges
In a decision handed down by the law lord in charge of appeals, the Master of the Rolls Sir Anthony Clarke, flanked on his dais by two equally grave judges, it was decreed the British government had abused its power when it evicted the Chagossians four decades ago. The Chagossians could go home. >> Read the Full Article
Cool Hand Nuke: Paul Newman Endorses New York Nuclear Power Plant
Call him Cool Hand Nuke. Paul Newman weighed in Wednesday on the Indian Point nuclear power facility in the New York suburbs, pronouncing it safer than military bases he had visited. >> Read the Full Article
A U.S.-Mexico Commission Fears Border Fence May Flout 1970 Treaty
A planned, much-debated fence along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Rio Grande river could skew the border and violate a 1970 treaty, a binational commission said. >> Read the Full Article