Environment | WPN World People News

As millions of migratory birds begin arriving at the San Pedro River on their annual journey north, local, regional and national conservation groups on Wednesday notified the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that they are poised to file a lawsuit to protect the San Pedro River and its surrounding wildlife habitat from a sprawling residential and commercial development. An Army Corps permit for the development is in violation of the Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Sunpol Resins & Polymers, Inc., to resolve federal Clean Water Act violations at its manufacturing facility in Fairfield, California. Sunpol will pay a $41,600 penalty as part of the agreement, and has already corrected its oil pollution prevention violations.

Community and conservation groups on Wednesday sued the South Coast Air Quality Management District for allowing L.A.-area oil refineries and power plants to continue spewing massive amounts of smog-forming pollutants, threatening the health of millions of people already breathing the nation’s dirtiest air.

The number of African rhinos killed by poachers has increased for the sixth year in a row with at least 1,338 rhinos killed by poachers across Africa in 2015, according to new data compiled by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission’s African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG).

Survivors of Chernobyl are still eating food with radioactive contamination above permissible limits thirty years after the nuclear catastrophe forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.

Two seafood processing and cold storage companies, Ocean Gold Seafoods Inc. and Ocean Cold LLC, have agreed to cut their releases of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases from leaking refrigeration equipment at their facilities in Westport, Washington.

FAO’s irrigation and income diversification projects have become instrumental in tackling the negative impacts of El Niño- induced drought for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Afar Region. 08 February 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The environmental impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will last decades to centuries, warns a new Greenpeace Japan report. Man-made, long-lived radioactive elements are absorbed into the living tissues of plants and animals and recycled through food webs, and carried downstream to the Pacific Ocean by typhoons, snowmelt, and flooding.

The iconic Grand Canyon in Arizona may soon be ground zero for two massive development projects.