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  Funding Frustrations Plague Africa’s Great Green Wall

  May 23, 2022 Comments Off on Funding Frustrations Plague Africa’s Great Green Wall

  ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, May 23, 2022 (ENS) – “We all play a role in the common fight against climate change and land degradation, recognizing that a healthy and safe environment is vital to the future [...]

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  U.S. Capital Bus Fleet Under Public Pressure to Decarbonize

  May 20, 2022 Comments Off on U.S. Capital Bus Fleet Under Public Pressure to Decarbonize

  WASHINGTON, DC, May 20, 2022 (ENS) – Coming together as the Metro Electric Bus Coalition, public health, environmental, and faith groups are pressuring the new Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, [...]

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  Siberian Wildfires Doubly Dangerous to Distracted Russia

  May 20, 2022 Comments Off on Siberian Wildfires Doubly Dangerous to Distracted Russia

  KRASNOYARSK, Russia, May 20, 2022 (ENS) – Early season wildfires in Siberia this spring threaten yet another record-breaking fire season in Russia, while the Russian government continues to pour resources into its ongoing war in [...]

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  PENNSYLVANIA: Air Pollution Costs U.S. Steel $1.5 Million

  May 17, 2022 Comments Off on PENNSYLVANIA: Air Pollution Costs U.S. Steel $1.5 Million

  PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 17, 2022 (ENS) – The U.S. Steel Corporation, a major steelmaker, will pay a $1.5 million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of [...]

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  Extreme Storms May Protect Beaches Against Sea-level Rise

  May 17, 2022 Comments Off on Extreme Storms May Protect Beaches Against Sea-level Rise

  SYDNEY, New South Wales, Australia, May 17, 2022 (ENS) – Climate change is making storms more intense and destructive, but the impact of extreme storms is not wholly negative, an international team of researchers has [...]

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  Wastewater Recycling Sends Microplastics Back to Soil, Ocean

  May 16, 2022 Comments Off on Wastewater Recycling Sends Microplastics Back to Soil, Ocean

  CARDIFF, Wales, UK, May 16, 2022 (ENS) – Farmlands across Europe are becoming the largest global reservoir of microplastics due to the high concentrations found in fertilizers derived from sewage sludge, new research from Cardiff [...]

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  Interpol Finds Organized Crime’s Fingerprints on Gold Mining

  May 2, 2022 Comments Off on Interpol Finds Organized Crime’s Fingerprints on Gold Mining

  LYON, France, May 2, 2022 (ENS) – A new analysis for law enforcement by Interpol, the international police force, shows “the clear involvement of organized criminals in illegal gold mining, taking advantage of surging gold [...]

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  New Enzyme Can Gobble Plastic Waste by the Billions of Tons

  April 28, 2022 Comments Off on New Enzyme Can Gobble Plastic Waste by the Billions of Tons

  AUSTIN, Texas, April 28, 2022 (ENS) – An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at the University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-strangling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in a [...]

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  Lions, Tigers, Bears, Apes Rescued from Ecopark Under Fire

  April 27, 2022 Comments Off on Lions, Tigers, Bears, Apes Rescued from Ecopark Under Fire

  KHARKIV, Ukraine, April 27, 2022 (ENS) – The evacuation of the Oleksandr Feldman Ecopark in the bombed city of Kharkiv is still going on – the animals are being removed from the line of fire, [...]

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  Humans Shown to Have ‘Surprising’ Nutritional Wisdom

  April 26, 2022 Comments Off on Humans Shown to Have ‘Surprising’ Nutritional Wisdom

  BRISTOL, UK, April 26, 2022 (ENS) – Pioneering research by a British-led team has shed new light on what drives people’s basic food preferences. It shows that our choices may be smarter than previously understood [...]

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  MARYLAND: State Seeks $100M Compensation for Ship Grounding

  April 26, 2022 Comments Off on MARYLAND: State Seeks $100M Compensation for Ship Grounding

  ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, April 26, 2022 (ENS) – The State of Maryland has requested that the Evergreen Shipping Agency pay $100 million as a “Responsibility Fund” against the damages to the environment caused by the grounding [...]

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  XPRIZE Awards 15 Winners $1M Each for CO2 Removal Know-How

  April 22, 2022 Comments Off on XPRIZE Awards 15 Winners $1M Each for CO2 Removal Know-How

  LOS ANGELES, California, April 22, 2022 (ENS) – In celebration of Earth Day, 15 teams have been designated as million-dollar Milestone winners in the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. XPRIZE, a non-profit that hosts [...]

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  OREGON: Extremist Pleads Guilty to Arson Conspiracies

  April 22, 2022 Comments Off on OREGON: Extremist Pleads Guilty to Arson Conspiracies

  PORTLAND, Oregon, April 22, 2022 (ENS) – A Pacific Northwest environmental extremist, arsonist and former fugitive pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court for his role in two arson conspiracies targeting commercial and government-owned animal processing [...]

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  150 Clean Cookstoves Change Lives In Guatemala

  April 22, 2022 Comments Off on 150 Clean Cookstoves Change Lives In Guatemala

  SANTA CRUZ DEL QUICHE, Guatemala, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – “Before, it wasted a lot of firewood and it’s very expensive. We don’t have jobs to get our wood,” a mother in the rural village [...]

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  Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India’s Tribal Forest

  April 21, 2022 Comments Off on Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India’s Tribal Forest

  JAIPUR, Rajasthan, India, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – State governments in India have approved two giant new coal projects on the land of the Adivasi Indigenous people, defying a determined and outspoken Adivasi resistance movement. [...]

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  Africa Starves Under The Blazing Sun

  April 21, 2022 Comments Off on Africa Starves Under The Blazing Sun

  DUBLIN, Ireland, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – Trucking water into communities who are somehow surviving the drought gripping the East African country of Somalia, has got Ireland’s largest aid organization Concern Worldwide ringing loud alarm [...]

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  Green Means Planet-Healing Investment to EarthDay.org

  April 20, 2022 Comments Off on Green Means Planet-Healing Investment to EarthDay.org

  WASHINGTON, DC, April 20, 2022 (ENS) – “This is the moment to change it all – the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate. Now is the time for the [...]

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  Solar, Wind, and Hydro Power in New York City’s Future

  April 19, 2022 Comments Off on Solar, Wind, and Hydro Power in New York City’s Future

  ALBANY, New York, April 19, 2022 (ENS) – To deliver clean, renewable solar, wind and hydroelectric power from upstate New York and Canada south to fossil-fuel powered New York City, the State Public Service Commission [...]

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  RHODE ISLAND: 1,000 Free Trees Help Save Energy and Water 

  April 19, 2022 Comments Off on RHODE ISLAND: 1,000 Free Trees Help Save Energy and Water 

  PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 19, 2022 (ENS) – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, DEM, is distributing 1,000 free, four-to-six foot trees at sites around the state in late April and early May. The [...]

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  Humanity Can Halve Climate Emissions by 2030: UN Panel

  April 17, 2022 Comments Off on Humanity Can Halve Climate Emissions by 2030: UN Panel

  GENEVA, Switzerland, April 17, 2022 (ENS) – In a rare encouraging climate report, the UN’s scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, has recognized “increasing evidence of climate action” and held out hope, finding that, [...]

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  LOUISIANA: Man Gets Three Years In Prison for Dog Fighting

  April 15, 2022 Comments Off on LOUISIANA: Man Gets Three Years In Prison for Dog Fighting

  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 15, 2022 (ENS) – A Louisiana man was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $1,000 fine for possession of an animal in an [...]

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  Bird Flu Infects Chickens, Turkeys Worldwide, Millions Killed

  April 1, 2022 Comments Off on Bird Flu Infects Chickens, Turkeys Worldwide, Millions Killed

  WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2022 (ENS) – Highly infectious outbreaks of bird flu in 23 states since January have led to the killing of more than 17 million chickens and turkeys, according to state and [...]

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  South Africa Inflates Value of Trophy Hunts to Conservation

  March 29, 2022 Comments Off on South Africa Inflates Value of Trophy Hunts to Conservation

  JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 29, 2022 (ENS) – The High Court of the Western Cape Friday ruled against South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment on its 2022 hunting and export quotas for [...]

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  Coal Waste Reimagined as ‘Ecofriendly’

  March 29, 2022 Comments Off on Coal Waste Reimagined as ‘Ecofriendly’

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 29, 2022 (ENS) – Turning coal waste from power plants into fire-resistant, strong, lightweight building materials is a project the U.S. Department of Energy is supporting, investing another $2.2 million this month [...]

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  Hunger Stalks the World as Russia Bombs Europe’s Breadbasket

  March 13, 2022 Comments Off on Hunger Stalks the World as Russia Bombs Europe’s Breadbasket

  ROME, Italy, March 13, 2022 (ENS) – While global attention is on Russia’s attack on Ukraine and its horrific humanitarian consequences there, a hidden hunger emergency is overwhelming South Sudan – an emergency intensified by [...]

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  TEXAS: Oil Exec Charged in Oilfield Deaths, Clean Air Crimes

  March 13, 2022 Comments Off on TEXAS: Oil Exec Charged in Oilfield Deaths, Clean Air Crimes

  MIDLAND, Texas, March 13, 2022 (ENS) – A federal grand jury in Midland has returned an indictment charging the oilfield company Aghorn Operating Inc. and an executive of the company with worker safety and environmental [...]

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  Congress OKs Climate, Energy, Water Spending in $1.5T Bill

  March 12, 2022 Comments Off on Congress OKs Climate, Energy, Water Spending in $1.5T Bill

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2022 (ENS) – In a bipartisan vote of 68-31, the U.S. Senate has passed an appropriations bill that will fund government climate, energy, water and wildfire activities, and provide $13.6 billion [...]

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  350 Companies Shut Russia Out of Energy, Food, Finance, Tech

  March 11, 2022 Comments Off on 350 Companies Shut Russia Out of Energy, Food, Finance, Tech

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – At least 350 companies have announced their withdrawal from Russia as a consequence of its invasion of Ukraine, including BP, ExxonMobil and Shell as well as Apple, Visa, [...]

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  Communication Lost With Russian-Held Chernobyl Nuclear Site

  March 11, 2022 Comments Off on Communication Lost With Russian-Held Chernobyl Nuclear Site

  VIENNA, Austria, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – Ukraine’s nuclear regulator lost all communications with the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the disaster site where radioactive spent fuel is stored, on Monday the day after the Russian-controlled [...]

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  TEXAS: Chevron Phillips Chemical Agrees to Cut Gas Flaring

  March 11, 2022 Comments Off on TEXAS: Chevron Phillips Chemical Agrees to Cut Gas Flaring

  HOUSTON, Texas, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP has agreed to a legal settlement with the federal government that will eliminate thousands of tons of air pollution from gas flaring at [...]