Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | December 12, 2017: Single use plastic bottles are strangling the earth’s ecosystems. Every plastic water or soda bottle that we buy contributes to ecological degradation in the form of micro plastic — those small particles of plastic that are often invisible to the Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: James V. Grimaldi & Paul Overberg | December 12, 2017: A Wall Street Journal investigation uncovered thousands of fraudulent posts on agencies’ dockets, in hot-button areas such as net neutrality and payday lending. On federal government web sites, public comments can influence the outcome Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Suzanne Ozment & Rafael Feltran-Barbieri | December 12, 2017: As The Guardian newspaper recently reported, chopping down trees in the Amazon rainforest decreases water supply to distant Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city. Large-scale deforestation disrupts the water cycle and can affect weather patterns thousands Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | December 11, 2017: Artificial intelligence will always be a “work in progress” in fighting money laundering and won’t entirely replace humans and their intuition, a top UK regulator said. “Any bank hoping for a black box in the corner that will Read more…
Bloomberg News | 10 December 2017: $40 billion spent so far on aqueducts to feed northern cities. Government taps technology, boosts food imports to save water Autumn rains came too late to save the stunted stalks of Shu Xinguo’s corn crop, withered by a dry July growing season. “We rely Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – December 12, 2017: In unfolding global energy revolution, expensive and ecologically risky dams may not be right choice to generate more electricity. The bend in the Mekong River where Laotian authorities want to build the Pak Beng hydropower dam is Read more…
Clean Technica | By: The Beam | December 09, 2017: Today we’re able to build self-driving trucks, to communicate with smart humanoids, and to play video games with virtual reality technologies. Yet there are 1.06 billion people living without access to electricity across the world (IEA and World Bank, 2017). Read more…
Pacific Institute: By: Abbey Warner | GPE – December 10, 2017: “Companies seeking to manage water-related business risks can and should contribute to improved water management and governance that is also in the public interest. If done responsibly, integrating private sector action into global policy frameworks and local implementation practices Read more…
Huffington Post | By: John J. Berger | GPE – December 10, 2017: On millions of acres of grazed American range land, if you plunge a shovel into the ground, you’re likely to find light-colored, depleted soil that’s lost much of its carbon-containing organic matter. That’s the stuff that gives Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Sam Schechner & Patricia Kowsmann |December 08, 2017: New rule is latest mainstream effort to adopt record-keeping developed for virtual currencies. France said Friday that it will allow wider use of the record-keeping technology behind bitcoin in the issuance and trading of traditional securities, Read more…
IRIN | By: Nathaniel A. Raymond, Daniel P. Scarnecchia & Stuart R. Campo | December 08, 2017: Why it’s time for an independent investigatory body. The news that a platform used by at least 11 major operational NGOs and UN agencies may be relatively easy to breach, potentially exposing the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 07, 2017: Southern California is in flames. Wildfires are raging just north of Los Angeles, destroying whole communities just a short drive from downtown LA. Consuming everything in their path, the fires are only extinguished when they reach the shores of the Read more…
Reuters | By: David Stanway | December 06, 2017: The smog-prone northern Chinese province of Hebei has drawn up plans to launch a comprehensive environmental protection tax starting in the new year that will give more incentives for local polluters to clean up, it said on Wednesday. China’s legislature approved Read more…
Reuters | By: Frank Phiri | December 07, 2017: Many parts of Malawi remained without electricity on Thursday after water levels at the country’s two main dams sunk to critical levels and affected hydro power plants, the power utility said on Thursday. Malawi lost around 200 megawatts (MW) of hydro Read more…
Space In Images | By: Copernicus Sentinel-2 Mission | December 08, 2017: Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 5 December 2017, this image shows flames and smoke from the fierce blazes devastating northwest Los Angeles in Southern California. While hundreds of firefighters battle the fires, more than 200 000 Read more…
Defense One | By: Caroline Houck | December 06, 2017: “On a scale of 1 to 10,” the threat of a cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure is “a 7 or an 8,” the Department of Homeland Security warned lawmakers last week. And indeed, someone has been probing the defenses Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | December 07, 2017: The European Union Tuesday named 17 countries and territories to its first-ever blacklist of tax havens. Forty-seven other countries were grey-listed but have committed to meeting EU standards. The EU designated a country or territory as a “non-cooperative Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 06, 2017: For the past 40 years, the electricity sector of the US economy has been the biggest source of carbon emissions. But according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, that distinction now belongs to transportation — automobiles, trucks, airplanes, and ships. Don’t Read more…
Reuters | By: Timothy Gardner | December 05, 2017: Melting Arctic sea ice could render sun-soaked California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years as it is likely to cause high pressure systems that push away rain-bearing storms, a study released on Tuesday said. As Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Carson Vaughan | December 04, 2017: Planted after the Dust Bowl. Cut down in the climate change era. Surely the end was nigh. Up and down the Great Plains, from the Texas panhandle to the Dakota prairies, dust stripped the paint from their barns, the Read more…
Amirix Systems | Press Release | GPE – December 06, 2017: Amirix Systems announced on November 30, 2017 that it has been acquired by US based InnovaSea Systems. Amirix is the parent company of Bedford, Nova Scotia based Vemco and Realtime Aquaculture and Seattle, Washington based HTI-Vemco. Vemco and HTI-Vemco Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Andrea Bertoli | December 05, 2017: So many of us suffer from nature deficit: we spend lots of time indoors, staring at screens both large and small. This is tiring to our brains and our eyeballs, and keeps us from enjoying a connection with trees, plants, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | December 04, 2017: Berlin (Germany) and China are working with nature to create sponge cities that absorb rainwater and cool the city. Even without the challenges of climate change, cities would do well to consider the benefits of imitating natural ecosystems to cool Read more…
Reuters | By: Philip Wen | December 03, 2017: China’s central Shanxi province has introduced new rules curbing water use for steel, cement and aluminum production, state media reported on Sunday, in another blow to sectors reeling from government-enforced output cuts. Under the new policy, producers of steel, cement and Read more…
Defense One | By: Joseph Marks | GPE – December 04, 2017: Lines between government-backed hackers and cyber criminals are getting fuzzier, top officials told lawmakers Thursday. Originally published December o1, 2017: That’s one message the FBI wanted to send when it indicted two Russian intelligence officers and two criminal Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Michael S. Derby | December 03, 2017: As electronic-payment methods rise in popularity, central bankers ponder whether they might need to get in the game. For years central bankers have seen digital currencies as a curiosity to keep an eye on. But now they Read more…
Reuters | By: Jeremy Wagstaff, Byron Kaye | December 03, 2017: Police and security agencies have so far only taken an interest in blockchain – the distributed ledger technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin – for tracking criminals hiding illegal money from banks. But that’s changing as some civilian, police and Read more…
William D McMaster | GPE – December 02, 2017: Since the 1970’s Majuli islander Jadav Payeng has been planting trees in order to save his island. To date he has single handedly planted a forest larger than Central Park NYC. His forest has transformed what was once a barren wasteland, Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) | By: Katherine Chrisman & Mark Porter | November 28, 2017: Over the past decade, China has become the world’s leader in wind and solar capacity. Traditionally, China’s electricity structure has been closed off to most forms of corporate renewable procurement. But as a growing number Read more…
ABC News | By: John Flesher | November 28, 2017: Despite recent improvements, the U.S. and Canada have a long way to go toward ridding the Great Lakes of pollution that endangers human health and the environment, an advisory agency said Tuesday. Inadequately treated sewage, industrial chemicals and farm runoff Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrew Mambondiyani | November 27, 2017: Henry Fusirayi Nzarayebani, an elder in Zimunya, a village in eastern Zimbabwe, walks slowly toward plants growing at the edge of a narrow dirt foot path. He plucks a few leaves from a shrub nearly hidden amid a thicket of invasive Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Gwen Manseau and Jialin (Jackie) Zeng | November 29, 2017: Having recently toughened up its anti-bribery laws, China is now aiming to expand its oversight of corruption in the public sector, possibly leading to increased enforcement efforts against both domestic and foreign companies. In the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Kyle Field | November 28, 2017: We recently had the opportunity to speak with Craig Wooster, Project Manager & General Contractor at the Stone Edge Farm (SEF) Microgrid Project, about the impressive work the team is doing to take the farm off the grid with sustainable Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Susan Minnemeyer, Nancy Harris, & Octavia Payne | November 27, 2017: New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost-effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | November 27, 2017: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC $1.25 million for failing to conduct proper background checks on 8,600 new employees. FINRA – Wall Street’s independent regulator – said the due diligence failures started in 2009 Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | November 25, 2017: Bloomberg recently reported that Volkswagen has outlined its electric vehicle investments in China with an announcement of investment of $12 billion over the next 7 years with its Chinese joint venture partner JAC (Anhui Jianghuai Automobile). JAC, a relatively unknown Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Smiti | November 24, 2017: China has launched a major reform in its power sector which will enable renewable energy generators not linked to the main power grid to sell electricity easily. The National Energy Administration (NEA) recently announced that small and medium-sized renewable energy generators Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | November 24, 2017: Solar panels are wonderful things, but they do take up a lot of space, especially for larger, utility-scale systems. In some densely populated countries like China and India, where loss of farmland can lead to hungry people, floating solar farms Read more…
Bloomberg | By: Ari Natter | November 22, 2017: Hidden in the Trump administration’s $44 billion emergency budget request is a plan to expand an Obama-era effort to make cities and towns resilient to the more frequent storms tied to climate change. The White House budget office is seeking $12 Read more…
Science Daily | Source: University Of Warwick | November 23, 2017: The smallest microplastics in our oceans — which go largely undetected and are potentially harmful — could be more effectively identified using an innovative and inexpensive new method, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick. New research, led Read more…
The Guardian | By: Oliver Milman | November 23, 2017: Sandbranch is a small, poor, largely African American community just outside Dallas but its residents have to rely on charitable donations of bottled water. It’s a sweltering Saturday in October and Pastor Eugene Keahey is becoming agitated. His flock live Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Tatyana Shumsky | November 22, 2017: Ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting hasn’t kept up, CFOs say. P.F. Chang’s finance chief said he switched the company to Adaptive Insights from Excel because it fosters collaboration and cuts down on administrative tasks. The process can Read more…
Forester Network | By: Janice Kaspersen | November 21, 2017: You may have read recently about China’s “sponge cities.” They’re an approach to what we commonly call green infrastructure—an attempt to reduce flooding and infiltrate stormwater runoff in some of the areas most affected by rapid urbanization. China has spent Read more…
ABC News | By: The Associated Press | November 21, 2017: Officials in Portugal say they may begin rationing the public water supply at night-time in response to the country’s worst drought on record. Authorities say 94 percent of the Portuguese mainland is enduring what they classify as an “extreme” Read more…
Regenesis Remediation Solutions | GPE – November 22, 2017: This video presents a case study of a site contaminated with PFAS, where PlumeStop® Liquid Activated Carbon™ from REGENESIS was injected in-situ, achieving excellent distribution through the subsurface to remove contaminants. Originally published October 02, 2017: Recently, PFAS contamination in groundwater Read more…
Legal & Compliance | By: Laura Anthony, Esq. | November 21, 2017: On September 20, 2017, SEC Chair Jay Clayton issued a statement on cybersecurity that included the astonishing revelation that the SEC Edgar system had been hacked in 2016. Since the original statement, the SEC has confirmed that personal Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – November 22, 2017: PFASs — used in clothing, carpets, cookware, and more — contaminate wells across the United States. Originally published April 18, 2017: The early 1990s were the start of a sizzling decade for ChemFab, a producer of specialized Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Scott Patterson | November 20, 2017: Swiss commodity giant says weaknesses found in subsidiary’s financial reporting. The move comes amid an investigation by Canada’s Ontario Securities Commission, or OSC, the country’s biggest regional securities regulator, into the governance practices of the Glencore copper subsidiary, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: David Kline | November 20, 2017: Today just 8% of U.S. businesses are startups, down from about 12.5% in 1980. The last time I visited China, I had tea with Deng Xiaoping. It was 1978, and the Chinese leader outlined for me a plan Read more…
The Guardian | By: Peter Walker | November 20, 2017: The chancellor, Philip Hammond, will announce in next week’s budget a “call for evidence” on how taxes or other charges on single-use plastics such as takeaway cartons and packaging could reduce the impact of discarded waste on marine and bird Read more…
The Financial Times | November 19, 2017: The world’s biggest companies will spend tens of millions of dollars to meet new EU data protection laws by next May’s deadline, according to a survey that shows the costs of meeting some of the world’s toughest privacy rules. Members of the Fortune Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Steven Norton | GPE – November 20, 2017: Corporate boards should think about cybersecurity risk as banks think about bank robbery: a relatively common risk that must be managed. “Just like bank robbery, you can’t say get rid of (cyber risk) and make it Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Samuel Rubenfeld | November 15, 2017: Anti-money laundering enforcement of broker-dealers by the Securities and Exchange Commission has been on the rise over the past year or so, but the $3.5 million penalty of a Wells Fargo unit stands out because it concerns a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Steven Norton | November 15, 2017: The growing sophistication of fast-moving cyberattacks is forcing companies to employ similar technologies to defend themselves. Artificial intelligence, growing more potent and easier to use, threatens to compound the already considerable challenges companies face as they deal with Read more…
MetricStream | Various Authors | GPE – November 15, 2017: Requirements for Data Processors, Data Controllers, and Data Protection Officers. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is poised to do for data protection and security what the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) did for corporate governance in the early 2000s – Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Derek Markham | November 14, 2017: The race to electrify long haul trucking, as well as other heavy cargo carriers, is really starting to heat up, and although we’re all waiting for Musk to blow our minds clean out of our skulls with the Tesla semi Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Tom Fairless | November 14, 2017: ECB chief Mario Draghi says critics of monetary stimulus had faced too little scrutiny. The heads of four of the world’s most important central banks defended their sweeping crisis-fighting measures in a rare joint appearance, and discussed how Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jaideep Bansal | GPE – November 14, 2017: I was recently reading an article on the Grid of the Future where prosumers are both the producers and consumers of the power. It talks about how people will be able to use decentralized microgrids and not Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | November 13, 2017: The Microgrid 2017 conference, which ran from November 6-8 in Boston, kicked off with a list of events that point to a desperate need for microgrids, and I bet you’ve heard of them: February: 300,000 in Pennsylvania March: 800,000 Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Robert Clark | November 13, 2017: Companies minimize the risk of corruption by adequately vetting their prospective representatives ~ typically by reviewing information about the financial interests and relevant connections of the intermediaries’ owners and key personnel, and screening those individuals for reputational and criminal-history Read more…
The New York Times | By: Scott Shane, Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sangernov | November 12, 2017: A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide. Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Liangyu | GPE – November 13, 2017: China on Friday launched its first survey of endangered finless porpoises in five years, to monitor their living conditions in moves to better rehabilitate their habitat in the Yangtze River. Originally published November 09, 2017: Two scientific survey ships left Read more…
Science Daily | By: Eric Sorensen – Washington State University | GPE – November 13, 2017: Researchers say landslides on logged forests will be more widespread as the Northwest climate changes. In a study modelled on clear-cut lands on the Olympic Peninsula, they anticipate the climate of 2045 and conclude Read more…
ABC | By: Will Weissert | GPE – November 13, 2017: Texas is lobbying the federal government for $61 billion for infrastructure improvements after Hurricane Harvey’s destruction, arguing that the staggering amount is necessary to “future proof” before the next great storm. Whether Congress will oblige is anyone’s guess. Originally Read more…
The Guardian | By: Michael Slezak | GPE – November 13, 2017: At COP 23 talks in Bonn, Fiji has called on developed nations to help the world’s most vulnerable build resilience to climate change. To prepare for the rising temperatures, strengthening storms and higher sea levels in the coming Read more…
Clean Technica | By:Joshua S Hill | November 09, 2017: Making a global transition to a 100% renewable electricity grid has long been a dream of many, but new research published this week by the Lappeenranta University of Technology has proven it is no longer just a dream but a Read more…
Clean Technica |By: Steve Hanley | GPE – November 12, 2017: Flat Holm island is an uninhabited rocky outcropping in the Bristol Channel that separates England from Wales. It is much admired for its rugged beauty and abundant avian population but like many islands in the world, a diesel generator Read more…
Waterworld | By: Adrian Irimia & Georg Stockinger | GPE – November 12, 2017: Following the success of a constructed wetland in Oman, treating more than 95,000 m3/day of produced water, petrochemical company Shell has reviewed the process to be used on other sites around the world. In this article Read more…
WaterWorld | By Tom Freyberg | GPE – November 12, 2017: German engineering company Bauer Nimr will expand the world’s largest constructed wetland as part of a contract with oil and gas company Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). Originally completed in 2011, the project was expanded in 2014 to 115,000 m3/day Read more…
Defense One | By: Patrick Tucker | GPE – November 12, 2017: A team of Chinese researchers say they have completed the first long-distance quantum secure direct communication, a critical step toward sending messages that are truly safe from eavesdropping. Here’s why that matters: The feat, if verified, marks a Read more…
ICIJ | By: Will Fitzgibbon | GPE – November 12, 2017: A village hoped for a better life. Burkina Faso expected more tax revenue. Residents and officials said Glencore gave them neither. Key findings: Burkina Faso’s tax office fined a Glencore subsidiary after allegations the company abused loopholes to avoid Read more…
Avionics | By: Calvin Biesecker | GPE – November 12, 2017: A team of government, industry and academic officials successfully demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting last year, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said Wednesday at the 2017 CyberSat Summit Read more…
Satellite Today | By: Jeffery Hill | GPE – November 12, 2017: Recent trends in malicious cybersecurity activity show that hackers are becoming much more adept at breaching networks using acquired “legitimate” credentials (such as outdated test login accounts to Virtual Private Networks, VPNs) and “blending in” with normal network Read more…
Lazard | November 2017: Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy (“LCOE”) analysis addresses the following topics: Comparative “levelized cost of energy” analysis for various technologies on a $/MWh basis, including sensitivities, as relevant,for U.S. federal tax subsidies, fuel costs, geography and cost of capital, among other factors. Comparison of the implied Read more…
International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists | By: Ryan Chittum | November 07, 2017: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the Canada Revenue Agency would investigate Canadians names in the Paradise Papers. as he fended off questions about his relationship with his close ally and Liberal Party fundraiser Stephen Bronfman. The Read more…
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 H. Simons, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Renaissance 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 Islam, and a “news” Twitter feed that’s tweeted a few 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 about the individuals who own or control companies including their 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 the ocean near her home has increased dramatically in the 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 south of the city. In a highly embarrassing development for 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 in the amount of litter found on the seabed around 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 statement Thursday announcing his promotion, Cain himself said: “I look 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 a rage-filled asshole in a commercial vehicle from ramming into 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 of lack of financing to small firms. The policy will 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 in agriculture and the good of farmers, read the message. 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, two students Manikanta and Ravichandra, the model has employed a 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 showed the city’s 90th percentile for lead was at 7 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 high tide, and poor infrastructure led to a devastating storm 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 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…