World Resources Institute | By: Molly Bergen | October 24, 2017: Molly Bergen recently traveled to three countries to document field activities of the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE), a U.S. government-funded conservation program implemented by a coalition of NGOs, including WRI. After several hours of bouncing Read more…
United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) | GPE – October 30, 2017: Events such as the discovery of lead in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, and the overflow and damage to the spillway at the Oroville Dam in California have drawn attention to the condition of the nation’s drinking water Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | October 28th, 2017: China is getting serious about curbing pollution. According to sources, up to 40% of its factories have been closed at least temporarily recently as the country has struggled to meet its year-end pollution reduction goals. Officials from more than 80,000 Read more…
Financial Times | October 27, 2017: Department warned of risks to IT systems a year before WannaCry assault. The scale of the cyber attack on the National Health Service was far larger than previously appreciated, according to a report by the spending watchdog that lays bare the health service’s poor Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | October 26, 2017: No end to water crisis in South Africa’s second largest city. After three consecutive dry years, Cape Town resorts to water “blackouts” to conserve water. It’s called Day Zero, the day when the six main reservoirs that supply Cape Read more…
Reuters | By Umberto Bacchi | October 25, 2017: Indonesia is exacerbating the effects of climate change by swapping its rainforest for palm plantations in a switch that could make water more scarce and wildfires more common, scientists said on Wednesday. The world’s biggest producer of palm oil – which Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan | October 24, 2017: An outbreak of malicious software Tuesday froze computer systems in several European countries, and began spreading to the U.S., the latest in a series of attacks that have plagued companies and government agencies this year. The outbreak, called Read more…
IRIN | By: Anthony Morland | October 24, 2017: In dryland areas across the world, tens of millions of people raise domesticated animals on open rangeland. Extreme variations in weather mean such pastoralists have to be highly adaptive and deploy a range of specialised skills. Climate change is making this Read more…
Science Daily | By: American Chemical Society | October 18, 2017: Summary: Clean drinking water can be easy to take for granted if your home taps into treated water sources. But more than 44 million people in the U.S. get their water from private domestic wells, which are largely unregulated. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Kate King | October 19, 2017: Cape May Point has benefited from a nature preserve built on the site of the former South Cape May, which was abandoned by residents 60 years ago after hurricanes and flooding. Since the preserve was completed, homeowners have Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Fred Pearce | October 17, 2017: Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa. The result has been a wave of environmental refugees, as thousands of people flee, many on boats to Europe. Read more…
The Guardian | Reuters | October 17, 2017: Natural solutions such as tree planting, protecting peatlands and better land management could account for 37% of all cuts needed by 2030, says study. Planting forests and other activities that harness the power of nature could play a major role in limiting Read more…
The Guardian | By: Damian Carrington | October 16, 2017: WWF analysis reports that 40% of rivers are polluted with sewage that can harm wildlife and put human health at risk. Raw sewage is flowing into rivers at thousands of sites across England and Wales, a report has warned, harming Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrei Khalip, Raquel Castillo | October 16, 2017: At least 36 people died in wildfires raging through parched farmlands and forests in Portugal and another three in neighboring northwestern Spain on Sunday and Monday. Firefighters were battling 50 blazes in Portugal and a similar number in Spain. Read more…
Aviation Week | By: Jerrold T. Lundquist | October 18, 2017: Industries evolve much like nature in the form of “punctuated evolution.” Things stay at status quo for long periods, and then an external event—an asteroid impact, food shortage or new predator arrival—fundamentally alters the landscape. The result is a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Dave Michaels | October 17, 2017: Miner valued Mozambique coal assets at $3 billion though value was internally assessed at negative $680 million, according to lawsuit. U.S. regulators on Tuesday sued Rio Tinto RIO -0.46% PLC and two former top executives over claims they Read more…
Reuters | By: Julia Fioretti | October 18, 2017: A year-old pact underpinning billions of dollars of transatlantic data transfers will get the green light from the European Union on Wednesday after the first review to ensure Washington protects Europeans’ data stored on U.S. servers. The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was Read more…
NextGov.com | By: Joseph Marks | October 16, 2017: The Homeland Security Department plans to issue a binding directive Monday requiring agencies to implement a slew of new email security protections. The directive will give agencies three months to implement a tool called DMARC that helps prevent hackers from spoofing Read more…
International Renewable Energy Agency | October 2017: Foreword: It is truly remarkable what a difference five years can make in the ongoing transformation of the energy sector. As recently as 2012, questions about high generation costs still overshadowed the rise of solar and wind power. But what was already clear, Read more…
UN Global Compact | Pacific Institute | GPE – October 17, 2017: Water is becoming increasingly more important to any company’s bottom line. Originally published April 2017: In response, a growing number have been expanding their efforts to understand and mitigate water risks, and to realize opportunities via improved water Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jack Nicas | October 16, 2017: The ultra-powerful machine has the potential to disrupt everything from science and medicine to national security—assuming it works. Hartmut Neven believes in parallel universes. On a recent morning outside Google’s Los Angeles office, the 53-year-old computer scientist was Read more…
Reuters | By: Reuters Staff | October 16, 2017: Cyber security watchdogs and researchers are issuing warnings over risks associated with a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications after the discovery of a flaw that could allow hackers to read information thought to be encrypted, or infect websites with Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Brent Kendall | October 16, 2017: Company argues U.S. search warrants don’t reach data stored outside domestic borders. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether email providers have to comply with search warrants seeking customer messages if the material is stored Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Alexander Osipovich | October 15, 2017: Dozens of high-speed traders and others from Wall Street are helping the Pentagon study how hackers could unleash chaos in the U.S. financial system. The Department of Defense’s research arm over the past year and a half has Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Christopher Mims | October 15, 2017: A combination of solar power and the rise of residential energy storage paves the way for a new kind of cable cutting. In the near future, your home could be battery operated. This is especially true if you Read more…
Looking China | Video | October 16, 2017: “Looking China” International Youth Film Project is co-organized by the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture (AICCC), Beijing Normal University and Huilin Foundation. The program focuses on the young participants’ personal experiences of Chinese culture and encourages them to discover and Read more…
The New York Times | By: Various Authors | October 15, 2017: When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them. They were digitally looting an account of the Bangladesh Central Bank, when bankers grew suspicious Read more…
Xinhau | Editor: Yang Yi | October 14, 2017: Philanthropy in China has grown into a sector that has been really contributing a lot to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), thanks to the fast development of both Chinese economy and society, UN Development Program (UNDP) China director Agi Veres Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan & AnnaMaria Andriotis | October 13, 2017: Visitors to company’s website were met with malicious software. The security issue that caused visitors to Equifax Inc.’s website this week to encounter malicious software happened because the site was attempting to use a discontinued Read more…
MRO-Network | By: Lindsay Bjerregaard | Oct 13, 2017: A nonprofit focused on providing STEM education opportunities to veterans has just added 3D printing to its curriculum. San Diego-based Workshops for Warriors (WFW), which has been preparing veterans for careers in advanced manufacturing since 2008, recently teamed up with Stratasys Read more…
The Guardian | By: Matthew Taylor | GPE – October 14, 2017: Sewage plants are contributing to plastic pollution in the oceans with millions of tiny beads spilling into the seas around the UK, according to a new report. Originally published October 11, 2017: Dozens of UK wastewater treatment plants Read more…
GE Reports | By: Thomas Kellner & Mark Egan | Oct 12, 2017: The turquoise, nutrient-rich waters off the coast of the Indonesian island of Lombok are perfect for growing pearls. But when pearl farmer Fauzi Se wanted to take advantage of nature’s bounty and expand production at his jewelry Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Jim Robbins | October 12, 2017: In a development that has important implications for conservation, scientists are increasingly focusing not just on what species are present in an ecosystem, but on the roles that certain key species play in shaping their environment. In 1966, an Read more…
NYC – DEP | By: Various Authors | GPE – October 12, 2017: The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) owns and operates one of the largest wastewater and stormwater collection systems in the world including a combined sewer system, which conveys stormwater and wastewater within the same Read more…
Nature Communications | By: Various Authors | October 09, 2017: Abstract: Diarrheal disease (DD) due to contaminated water is a major cause of child mortality globally. Forests and wetlands can provide ecosystem services that help maintain water quality. To understand the connections between land cover and childhood DD, we compiled Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: AnnaMaria Andriotis & Emily Glazer | October 10, 2017: Company also said file containing 15.2 million U.K. consumer records also affected. Driver’s license data for around 10.9 million Americans were compromised during the breach of Equifax Inc.’s systems, according to people familiar with the Read more…
Reuters | By: Reuters Staff | October 11, 2017: Israeli intelligence officials spying on Russian government hackers found they were using Kaspersky Lab antivirus software that is also used by 400 million people globally, including U.S. government agencies, according to media reports on Tuesday. The Israeli officials who had hacked Read more…
Transparency International UK | Global Anti-Bribary Guidance | GPE – October 10, 2017: Chapter 12 – Extract: Third parties can represent a considerable bribery risk for companies. They may not operate to the standards of the company and can be used by corrupt employees as channels for bribery. Intermediaries, in Read more…
Transparency International UK | By: Jane Smith | GPE – October 10, 2017: In the dystopian reality of many people’s lives, where kleptocrats gleefully pounce upon myriad opportunities to syphon funds, steal elections and strangle free speech, opacity is key. The lack of transparency enabling these quotidian wrongdoings may now Read more…
Transparency International UK | By: Robert Barrington | GPE – October 10, 2017: This week, the OECD held its annual Integrity Forum – where a collection of experts from governments, inter-governmental organisations, business and civil society gather to discuss corruption. Robert Barrington discusses some of the key themes from this Read more…
Transparency International UK | By: Jameela Raymond | GPE – October 10, 2017: In 2016 the UK’s Overseas Territories (OTs) and Crown Dependencies (CDs) committed to introduce central registers of beneficial ownership information or ‘similarly effective systems’ by 30 June 2017. Governments have made public statements acknowledging that verified information Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: John Arvanitis | October 09, 2017: The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Final Rule regarding customer due diligence will soon be in force. With implementation required by May 11, 2018, covered financial institutions must ensure their due diligence programs are in line with FinCEN’s guidance on Read more…
Xinhua| By: Guo Shuang | October 07, 2017: “I think the only problem we’re going to have is that I don’t know if we have enough people for all the jobs that are being created,” U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Friday in an event celebrating the opening of Read more…
Xinhua|Editor: ZD | October 07, 2017: “I am so happy to see the smooth construction of the first China-Russia cross-border road bridge,” said Nagia after she and another 120 artists from China and Russia performed at the bridge construction site. Construction of the long-awaited bridge across the Heilongjiang River, or Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Mu Xuequan | October 08, 2017: “The role of human capital in the One Belt, One Road initiative” was the motto of the Third China-Central and Eastern Europe Conference on Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Education and Business that ended on Saturday in the Macedonian town Ohrid. Although the infrastructure is Read more…
Clean Technica | By Marlene Cimons | GPE – October 10, 2017: When the conversation turns to sources of clean renewable energy, evaporation usually isn’t the first thing to come up, if at all. Yet scientists think evaporation from US lakes and reservoirs could generate almost 70% of the power Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Matt Pressman | October 07, 2017: On the heels of Tesla’s continuing traction all across Australia, Musk recently attended a Powerpack unveiling at Noeon Hornsdale wind farm in Jamestown, South Australia. He announced Tesla was approximately 50% finished with the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery system. Just Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Liangyu | October 10, 2017: Total assets of China Investment Corporation (CIC), the country’s sovereign wealth fund (SWF), surpassed 900 billion U.S. dollars as of August. The figure is more than triple the original capital of 249 billion U.S. dollars when the fund was founded a decade Read more…
Reuters | By: David Shepardson | October 07, 2017: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said late on Friday it had approved Alphabet Inc’s application to provide emergency cellular service to Puerto Rico through balloons. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has struggled to regain communications services. The FCC Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Giles Parkinson | October 06, 2017: Elon Musk didn’t need 100 days after obtaining a connection agreement to switch on the Tesla big battery in South Australia. In fact, it took him less than 100 minutes. That’s how quickly the battery was up and running after Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | October 06, 2017: The upside of Twitter showed in an exchange between Ricardo Rossello, the governor of Puerto Rico, and real-world Tony Stark Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Governor Rossello was seemingly sending a desperate plea of help to someone who gets turned to Read more…
Xinhua| By: Zhou Xin | October 06, 2017: A latest study by Fribourg University in Switzerland revealed on Thursday that the vast majority of glaciers in center of the country will have totally disappeared by the end of the 21st century. Around 90 percent of the Hufi Glacier in the Read more…
Xinhua| By: Xu Xingtang & Yang Shilong | October 07, 2017: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Beijing … wherever Avery Goldstein went in China, he saw the trademark orange and yellow bicycles of Mobike and Ofo, the Asian power’s top two bike-sharing heavyweights. “This is something a year ago I didn’t Read more…
Science News | By: Stanford University | October 05, 2017: Soil holds potential to slow global warming, researchers find. Summary: The land under our feet and the plant matter it contains could offset a significant amount of carbon emissions if managed properly. More research is needed to unlock soil’s potential Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Mahesh Bhave | October 04, 2017: Puerto Rico presents a near perfect opportunity to rebuild the electricity infrastructure from scratch in accord with technologies of the present — solar panels, batteries, wind turbines, and perhaps small generators — optimally combined in steps of 250 kW Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Gregory B. Poindexter | GPE – October 06, 2017: Results released from an Australian Renewable Energy Agency study indicate the possibility exists for the development of the 225-MW Cultana pumped storage hydropower facility located in South Australia’s Spencer Gulf. Originally published Ocrober 03, 2017: If Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Gordon Lubold & Shane Harris | October 05, 2017: The breach, considered the most serious in years, could enable Russia to evade NSA surveillance and more easily infiltrate U.S. networks. Hackers working for the Russian government stole details of how the U.S. penetrates foreign Read more…
Reuters | By: Sarah N. Lynch & Jim Finkle | October 06, 2017: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Wall Street’s top regulator, has discovered a vulnerability in its corporate filing database that could cause the system to collapse, according to an internal document seen by Reuters. The SEC’s Read more…
Clean Technica | By: John Farrell | October 05, 2017: Clean Technica Article 1: Electric cars aren’t new. At the dawn of the US auto industry in the late 1800s, electric vehicles outsold all other types of cars. By 1900, electric autos accounted for one-third of all vehicles on US Read more…
The Telegraph | By: Danny Boyle | October 04, 2017: Multiple “fatbergs” are clogging up sewers beneath London’s West End, it has been revealed. Thames Water is closely monitoring four major blockages lurking under the streets of the capital’s theatre district. The masses of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies and Read more…
Defense One | By Joseph Marks | October 04, 2017: The Homeland Security Department formed an election security task force last week to help shore up state and local voting infrastructure, a top official told lawmakers Tuesday. That task force will draw resources and expertise from across the department, including Read more…
Defense One | By: Marcus Weisgerber | October 04, 2017: American automaker General Motors has produced a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered chassis that executives say could allow the U.S. military to move equipment and supplies around the battlefield more efficiently and safely. Called SURUS, for Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure, the vehicle resembles Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chuin-Wei Yap | October 04, 2017: Seminars on digital-currency investing that once drew hundreds now take place in smaller, more secretive settings. Three days after Chinese regulators outlawed cryptocurrency fundraising in early September, a woman met with half a dozen individuals at a Beijing Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Irene Klotz | October 05, 2017: Iconoclastic SpaceX CEO wants to scrap successful Falcon rocket line to fund Mars dream. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk says he has fixed a fatal flaw in the interplanetary space transportation system unveiled during last year’s Read more…
Power Engineering International | By: Diarmaid Williams | October 04, 2017: The head of the world’s eighth largest power utility says ‘new coal is finished’ and gas-fired power is set for a similar fate. In a wide-ranging interview with the Euractiv website, Enel CEO and new president of Eurelectric, Francesco Read more…
Xinhua| Editor – An| October 05, 2017: A close China watcher said here Tuesday that if China keeps its current pace in innovative industrial development, the innovative activity share in its total output will likely surpass that of the United States in about 18 months. Daniel Rosen, founding partner of Read more…
Reinsurance News | By: Marianne Lehnis | October 03, 2017: Reinsurers could place lines of business at risk by failing to properly investigate the financial profile of cedants before taking on their risks, Litmus Analysis warned. “There’s a general consensus among reinsurers that this is an important part of the Read more…
The Nature Conservancy | GPE – October 04, 2017: In the face of intense hurricanes, nature has an important role to play in reducing flood risk for communities. Sadly, the 2017 hurricane season will long be remembered. Our thoughts and condolences go out to those who are suffering due to Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Dan Gallagher | October 03, 2017: Software giant has some natural advantages in VR, though marketing risks confusion. Don’t feel bad if you failed to notice. Starting with a consumer electronics trade show in Berlin last month and continuing through an event in San Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Dr, Andy Skumanich | GPE – October 04, 2017: “EV phone home” – Life without our mobile phone seems pretty unimaginable, doesn’t it? We now carry along our phone/camera/computer in our hands, and, if you want to believe a recent movie, some of us even Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Livio Filice | September 28, 2017: All across North America and the Caribbean, power outages are frequently experienced leading to power losses over short and long durations. Power outages can occur due to natural causes, such as an ice storm or hurricane but can also Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | October 03rd, 2017: Two years ago in Florida, I gave a presentation at the EV Transportation & Technology Summit titled “EV R&D and the Future.” It was based on our first big EV driver report. Of all the interesting findings from the report, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | October 03rd, 2017: Before jumping into the broader Norway electric car story from Steve Hanley below, there are some amazing highlights out of Oslo that helpful CleanTechnica reader Are Hansen pointed out to us: 40% of new cars registered in Oslo in September Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | October 3rd, 2017: Following our earlier report about Ford possibly mass producing Deutsche Post DHL’s internally developed StreetScooter electric van, the company has revealed that it will be doubling its own production capacity and building a new factory in Dueren near Cologne. This Read more…
Reuters | By: Jonathan Stempel & Jim Finkle | October 03, 2017: Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, in a disclosure that attorneys said sharply Read more…
FINRA | By: Pete Chandler | GPE – October 03, 2017: Pressure tactics and sound investing rarely, if ever, go hand in hand. This holds true when it comes to pressure to sign legal documents that give someone else the authority to make financial decisions on your behalf, such as Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard Bistrong | October 03, 2017: Alere Inc. paid more than $13 million last week to settle SEC charges of accounting fraud and overseas bribery. Embedded in the details are some very meaningful lessons for compliance leaders, and even more importantly, for business leaders. Those Read more…
UN News Centre | GPE – October 03, 2017: The United Nations refugee agency announced that it has started distributing plastic sheeting and essential relief items to Rohingyas arriving in from Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh, as part of a massive effort to cut the time refugees spend in the open. Read more…
IISD | SD Knowledge Hub | By: Delia Paul | GPE – October 03, 2017: The EU is supporting pastoralists’ access to water along their seasonal migration routes, through a project funded through UN Environment. Meanwhile, UNECE, GWP and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory are supporting cooperation on the sharing Read more…
Banking Technology | By: Banking Tech | October 02, 2017: Robo-advisors are software programmes that provide financial advice with minimal human intervention. Software has been providing advice for half a century, from portfolio management to trading strategies to currency management, and more. The novelty is providing robo-advice direct to consumers. Read more…
NDTV | October 02, 2017: Assam has been recuperating after several rounds of floods this year; it again saw 306 acres of land submerged in the fresh wave. A fresh wave of flood has hit Assam, submerging five districts and affecting over 78,000 people, an official said on Sunday. The Read more…
Congressional Research Service | By: Jonathan L. Ramseur | GPE – October 03, 2017: The collection and treatment of wastewater remains among the most important public health interventions in human history and has contributed to a significant decrease in waterborne diseases during the past century. Nevertheless, waste discharges from municipal Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Trefor Moss | October 02, 2017: Nearly half of all plug-in vehicles are sold in China, driven by relentless subsidies and regulations. China has created the world’s largest electric-car market by sheer force of will, a giant bet on domestic production that’s leaving major Read more…
FEMA | Daily Operations Briefing | October 01, 2017: Hurricane Maria – Caribbean ~ Current Situation:Life safety and life sustainment efforts in PR (Puerto Rico) and the USVI (United States Virgin Islands) are ongoing. Approximately 3 inches of rain has fallen across the theater; additional rainfall of 1-2 inches possible Read more…