Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–Sepember 10, 2015. A young Florida boy and his family are reeling after a routine termite treatment resulted in a devastating outcome. Ten-year-old Peyton McCaughey of Palm City, Florida has been in the hospital for weeks following a severe reaction to chemicals used to fumigate his family’s home. According[Read More…]
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Bee Activists Attempt to Save Brunch
Thousands urge Ace and True Value to remove bee-killing pesticides WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—September 10, 2015. Over the month of August, more than 2,000 people across the country urged Ace Hardware and True Value to “save brunch” and stop selling bee-killing pesticides. As part of a national month of action organized[Read More…]
Report Details Obama’s Authority to Keep 450 Billion Tons of Greenhouse Gas Pollution in Ground
Laws Allow President to Ban New Oil, Gas and Coal Leases on Public Lands, Ocean Areas WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–September 10, 2015. The Center for Biological Diversity released a report today detailing the forms of legal authority that President Obama, as well as future U.S. presidents, possesses to stop new federal fossil fuel[Read More…]
More Than Half of Asian Americans with Diabetes are Undiagnosed
New statistics also show rising prevalence of diabetes among all groups Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2015. More than half of Asian Americans and nearly half of Hispanic Americans with diabetes are undiagnosed, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their results[Read More…]
Rates of Survival Increasing for Extremely Preterm Infants, NIH Network Finds
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2015. Extremely preterm infants, those born before the 28th week of pregnancy, are surviving in greater numbers and escaping serious illness, according to a comprehensive review of births in a National Institutes of Health research network. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,[Read More…]
Sierra Club Announces Annual Awards
Recipients include Sen. Harry Reid and Alan Rusbridger SAN FRANCISCO –-(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2015. Retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Alan Rusbridger, who recently retired as editor of The Guardian newspaper in London, are among those who will be receiving awards from the Sierra Club this year. Most of the[Read More…]
Deforestation Slows, ‘But We Need to do Better’ on Sustainable Forest Use – UN Agriculture Chief
Photo: FAO/Giulio Napolitano ITALY–(ENEWSPF)–7 September 2015 – While the world’s forests continue to shrink as populations increase and woodlands are converted to agriculture and other uses, over the past 25 years, the rate of net global deforestation has slowed down by more than 50 per cent, the United Nations Food[Read More…]
Ukraine: UN Agencies Call for Urgent Action to Stop Spread of Polio Virus
Children in the ‘Katusha’ kindergarten in the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk, Ukraine. Photo: UNICEF/Pavel Zmey GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–4 September 2015 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) called today on parents in Ukraine to vaccinate their children following a confirmed polio outbreak in the country.[Read More…]
Call for More Research on Bee-Toxic Pesticides as Their Link to Bee Deaths Strengthens
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2015. Research into neonicotinoid insecticides, a class of bee-toxic chemicals, and their effects on bees, needs to be more comprehensive in order to better reflect their global use, concludes a recent review of the current literature. The authors of the review state that despite considerable research efforts,[Read More…]
Widespread Coral Damage at Port of Miami Project Sparks Call to Reevaluate Port Everglades Expansion
MIAMI, Fla.—(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2015. Over a dozen South Florida businesses and environmental organizations joined Miami Waterkeeper and the Center for Biological Diversity today in demanding that the Army Corps of Engineers revaluate its Port Everglades expansion plan in light of the recent impacts to nearby Miami’s reef during its recent[Read More…]
