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Land Use/Forests

West Bank Farmers ‘Cut Off’ from Their Heritage Olive Trees

September 8, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on West Bank Farmers ‘Cut Off’ from Their Heritage Olive Trees

THE WEST BANK, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from the olive trees that have sustained his family for generations. Like thousands of Palestinian farmers, he faces growing restrictions from Israeli forces and settlers, who have made the olive harvest season – which runs from September to November – a time of uncertainty and struggle. […]

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Giraffes Reclassified to Four Distinct Species, Not Just One

September 8, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Giraffes Reclassified to Four Distinct Species, Not Just One

WINDHOEK, Namibia, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – A fresh assessment of the tallest living land animal and largest ruminant on Earth has officially recognized four distinct giraffe species, overturning previous classifications of giraffes as a single species. The new study reshapes how the diversity of the world’s giraffe species is understood and conserved. […]

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At Risk

2,205 Dead in Afghanistan Quake, Survivors Need Everything

September 4, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on 2,205 Dead in Afghanistan Quake, Survivors Need Everything

KABUL, Afghanistan, September 4, 2025 (ENS) – Preliminary reports from the frontlines of the latest Afghanistan quake now indicate that the death toll from a massive earthquake in Afghanistan last Sunday has climbed to 2,205 and the number of injured stands at 3,640 as rescue workers finally access the remote mountainous area hit by the disaster. […]

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Health

3 Western States Form Scientific Alliance for Vaccine Access

September 4, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on 3 Western States Form Scientific Alliance for Vaccine Access

SACRAMENTO, California, September 4, 2025 (ENS) – To ensure that their states’ residents’ access to vaccines remains protected by science, not politics, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson are launching a new West Coast Health Alliance. […]

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Land Use/Forests

Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Jail Shut in 60 Days

August 24, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Jail Shut in 60 Days

MIAMI, Florida, August 23, 2025 (ENS) – A federal judge has ordered the State of Florida and the Trump administration to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees and begin winding down operations at the mass detention center in the Big Cypress National Preserve known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” […]

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World’s First Plastics Treaty Agreement Proves Elusive

August 23, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on World’s First Plastics Treaty Agreement Proves Elusive

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 20, 2025 (ENS) – “Ultimately, I have heard from every country here in this room that you want to end plastic pollution. You want a deal,” Inger Andersen, head of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, told delegates Friday as the latest talks to forge an international legally binding plastics treaty to halt pollution broke down in frustration. […]

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Gov/Politics

U.S. EPA Deletes Research Office, Fires Scientific Leaders

August 20, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. EPA Deletes Research Office, Fires Scientific Leaders

WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is firing and retiring thousands of workers as part of a “reduction in force” as the agency continues its “comprehensive restructuring efforts” by closing the EPA Office of Research and Development, commonly called ORD. […]

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Food

SA’s New Live-animal Export Rules: Just Window Dressing?

August 8, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on SA’s New Live-animal Export Rules: Just Window Dressing?

PRETORIA, South Africa, August 7, 2025 (ENS) – The controversial debate on whether the live-animal export trade can ever be humane – or should be banned altogether – has been reopened by the Department of Agriculture’s release of draft regulations governing the export of live animals by sea. […]

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At Risk

Quake, Eruption in Russia’s Far East Shakes Pacific Ocean

July 31, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Quake, Eruption in Russia’s Far East Shakes Pacific Ocean

HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 31, 2025 (ENS) – The tsunami advisory for Hawaii has been lifted after a massive earthquake just off Russia’s Pacific coast put the entire region on high alert. Residents and visitors around the Pacific held their breath as tsunami waves rippled across the vast ocean. […]

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Air/Climate

Above-normal 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Looms

June 5, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Above-normal 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Looms

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, June 1, 2025 (ENS) – On the first day of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, above-average Atlantic Ocean temperatures have set the stage, and now forecasters at NOAA’s National Weather Service predict above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin this year. […]

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Food

Whole Milk, Plant Milks Welcomed Into U.S. Schools

June 4, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Whole Milk, Plant Milks Welcomed Into U.S. Schools

WASHINGTON, DC, June 4, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee has advanced provisions that will make it easier for students to access nondairy milk options in schools. The changes, included in the amended Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act (S.222), remove key barriers that have long prevented students, especially those who are lactose intolerant, from receiving a nutritionally appropriate beverage option at school.   […]

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At Risk

Dormant but Deadly: the New Middle East Landmine Crisis

May 28, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Dormant but Deadly: the New Middle East Landmine Crisis

DAMASCUS, Syria, May 28, 2025 (ENS) – Landmines and explosive ordnance from 14 years of conflict are still spreading their deadly contamination, creating a humanitarian emergency across Syria, the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies are urgently warning. […]

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Perfumes, Lotions Suppress Human Protective Air Shield

May 28, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Perfumes, Lotions Suppress Human Protective Air Shield

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, May 28, 2025 (ENS) – Fragrances and lotions change the way people smell, and new research shows they do much more than that. These personal care products act to alter the indoor air chemistry around the wearer, disrupting a natural process the body uses to protect itself from indoor air pollution… […]