Environmental News Network

Global Warming Threatens Double-Trouble for Peru: Shrinking Glaciers and a Water Shortage
The ice atop Cordillera Blanca, the largest glacier chain in the tropics, is melting fast because of rising temperatures, and peaks are turning brown. The trend is highlighting fears of global warming and, scientists say, is endangering future water supplies to the arid coast where most Peruvians live. >> Read the Full Article
In a Rush for Renewables: Energy
There's not much middle ground for Ted Turner when it comes to the future of energy in the United States. "What we need is a moratorium on all new coal plants, on all new carbon-producing energy power technologies, and work on replacing them with renewable alternatives," the billionaire founder of CNN said Wednesday. >> Read the Full Article
House Bill Promotes Technology to Get Biofuels to Consumers
Determining how best to speed ethanol and other alternative fuels from refinery to gas pump would rest with the government under legislation the House passed Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
PM Says Australia Will Export Coal Despite Global Warming
Australia would not end its biggest single export, coal, as part of the government's strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
Hundreds of Endangered Turtles Die along Bangladesh Coast
Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been found dead along Bangladesh's coast over the past two weeks, triggering concerns about pollution and local fishing practices, an official said Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
Can Fish Farming Save Depleted Cod?
Cod, a mainstay food from Britain to Brazil, all but disappeared from Canadian waters in the 1990s after years of overfishing, and scientists say a similar fate awaits the shoals of the North Sea. >> Read the Full Article
Texas Issues First Lease for Geothermal Energy Exploration and Development along Gulf Coast
Texas has awarded the state's first lease for geothermal energy production to a company planning to explore the renewable energy's potential along seven Gulf Coast counties. >> Read the Full Article
Bush Seeks Extra U.S. Energy Research Funds in 2008
The Bush administration Monday asked Congress for $4.4 billion in extra research funds in fiscal 2008 for high-tech areas such as supercomputers and turning wood chips into ethanol, even though Congress has not acted on the Energy Department's 2007 request. >> Read the Full Article
Bush Proposes Large Increase for Parks Leading up to 100th Birthday Bash
National parks would get extra money next year to prepare for a big birthday bash -- their own. President Bush's 2008 budget, unveiled Monday, would give the National Park Service its largest-ever funding increase in preparation for the park system's 100th birthday in 2016. >> Read the Full Article
Drought Triggers U.S. Water Wars, Pits Montana against Wyoming
For eight years drought has choked the Bighorn River, chopping 30 miles (48 kilometers) off Bighorn Lake in recent summers and prompting tourists to go elsewhere. And now a U.S. senator from Montana -- anxious to tap the reservoir to feed a downstream trout fishery -- could end Lovell's recreational plans for good. >> Read the Full Article