Topic: Nature and the Environment
Japan Tuna
AP News
Fish dealers load tuna into a truck at Tsukiji Wholesale Market in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, March 19, 2010. Japanese fish dealers welcomed the rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna while urging that existing quotas be more strictly enforced to protect the species from overfishing. Fish dealers ...
States sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules
Reuters Environmental Online Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 15 U.S. states have sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to stop it from issuing rules controlling greenhouse gas emissions until it reexamines whether the pollution harms human health. Florida, Indiana, South Carolina and at least nine other states filed the petitions in the U ...
EU understates emissions from oil: biodiesel lobby
Reuters Environmental Online Report
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is not taking full account of the environmental impact of oil-based road transport fuels, which could undermine the bloc's renewable energy goals, European biodiesel producers said on Thursday. The EU uses greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-based road fuels as a basis for calculating the ...
Smuggled tiger parts sold as jewellery in Singapore
AFP Global Edition
Tiger parts that have been smuggled into Singapore are being openly sold as jewellery and amulets in the retail capital of Southeast Asia, an animal welfare group said Friday. The Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) said it conducted an investigation of more than 130 jewellery and antique shops ...
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