International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists | By: Spencer Woodman | November 07, 2017: Records reveal huge overseas hoards tied to hedge fund tycoon and Democratic donor James Simons and other ultra-wealthy individuals. In December 2010, an attorney associated with James Read more…
Nextgov | By: Alexis Madrigal | November 06, 2017: It happened again. After a horrifying mass shooting, searching for the shooter’s name on Google surfaced an editor of the conspiracy site InfoWars, Julian Assange claiming the shooter had converted to Read more…
UK Government | GPE – November 07, 2017: From today (30 June 2016) companies will have to declare who owns or controls them to Companies House. Originally published June 30, 2016: The People with Significant Control (PSC) register includes information Read more…
Clean Technica | By Steve Hanley | November 06, 2017: Caroline Power is an underwater photographer who has lived on the island of Roatan in Honduras for the past 11 years. She says the amount of plastic trash floating in Read more…
Perth Now | By: John Flint | November 06, 2017: Perth’s drinking water catchment has been polluted by waste stockpiles — right under the nose of the State’s environmental watchdog, which was “closely monitoring” activities at the Oakford site, 36km Read more…
The Guardian | By: Patrick Barkham | GPE – November 06, 2017: Average of 358 items per square kilometre found in 2016, of which more than three-quarters were plastic. Originally published November 03, 2017: There has been a dramatic rise Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | November 06, 2017: The SEC has a new chief to enforce the FCPA. His name is Charles Cain. And what’s important to him is leveling the playing field. In an SEC Read more…
Defense One | By: Laura Bliss | November 05, 2017: After the truck attack in Manhattan, there’s no excuse for a limited imagination when it comes to safer streets. How do you stop a terrorist, a crazy person, or just Read more…
Reuters | By: Reuters Staff | November 6, 2017: China will exempt banks’ interest income from loans to small firms and rural households from value added tax, authorities said on Monday, in the latest step to address a long-standing issue Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Mu Xuequan |November 04, 2017: China should do more to improve water conservancy and water resource saving, Premier Li Keqiang said Friday in a written message to a meeting. Water conservancy infrastructure is key to supply-side structural reform Read more…
The Hindu | By: Staff Reporter | October 31, 2017: A group of biotechnologists from Vignan University have developed a model for conversion of domestic sewage water into biogas and bio-manure. Led by scientist M.S Shivakiran, Department of Biotechnology, VU, Read more…
MLive | By: Ron Fonger | October 30, 2017: Seventy-one water systems in Michigan now have higher lead levels than the city of Flint, results of the most recent federally-required testing shows. Water sampling in Flint from January through June Read more…
Gated Community | By: Molly Rubin | October 28, 2017: Five years ago, the coasts of New York and New Jersey were devastated by a rare late-October superstorm. On Oct. 29, 2012, a combination of record storm-wind area, a full-moon Read more…
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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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’ 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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, 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 Read more…
National Public Radio (NPR) | By: Camila Domonoske | GPE – September 29, 2017: Millions of people have no access to a power grid in Puerto Rico. Gas for cars and generators is hard to find. Cash is in short Read more…
European Space Agency | September 29, 2017: Above Photo: Health check for Thomas Pesquet using Tempus Pro. Tempus Pro, a portable vital-signs monitor offering telemedicine via satellite, is helping medics at ESA astronaut landings. Thomas Pesquet was the first to Read more…
American Society Of Landscape Architects | GPE – September 29, 2017: The idea that nature is also infrastructure isn’t new. But it’s now more widely understood to be true. Nature can be harnessed to provide critical services for communities, protecting Read more…