China has appointed Chen Jining, the president of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, as party chief of its environment ministry, since the controversial current incumbent is retiring, the ministry said on its website on Wednesday. Chen, 51, an environmental specialist and a member of the National Environmental Advisory Commission with no previous government experience, replaces …
Environment Canada will allow a snow goose hunt in the spring in hopes of helping control their ballooning population at nesting grounds in the N.W.T. Environment Canada says the nesting adult snow goose population on Banks Island has ballooned to half a million.
Associated Press – COVERT TOWNSHIP — The work environment has improved at Palisades Nuclear Plant in Southwest Michigan following concerns that drew attention last year, federal regulators said. In a report issued Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said its inspectors in December found there is no longer a “chilled work environment” in the security department at the plant along Lake …
Four Catholic bishops and at least 23 environmental groups recently signed a petition letter urging Pope Francis to act on ecological degradation in the Philippines caused by large-scale mining operations in the provinces. “We beseech His Holiness to rethink the investments of the Roman Catholic Church in giant mining companies, and…to invest in sustainable industries, and the genuine …
By Philip Pullella and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – Pope Francis waded into the global debate on climate change and the environment on Sunday, saying in the text of a speech that man was destroying nature and betraying God's calling to be stewards of creation. Francis offered his thoughts about the environment and climate change for the second time in four days at a rally with young people at a …
A study of twins conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators shows that our environment, more than our heredity, plays the starring role in determining the state of our immune system, the body's primary defense against disease. This is especially true as we age, the study indicates.