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. […]
YANGON, Myanmar, April 21, 2025 (ENS) – Military operations continue in Myanmar despite ceasefires declared after the recent 7.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 3,700 people, the United Nations human […]
LONDON, UK, March 15, 2025 (ENS) – An international marine incident involving at least four countries, two large ships, and the death of a crew member is threatening environmental damage […]
KYIV, Ukraine, March 3, 2025 (ENS) – After three years of Russia’s unprovoked attacks on its neighbor, Ukraine, the estimated cost of Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery over the next decade […]
LOS ANGELES, California, January 12, 2025 (ENS) – Firefighters have made some progress against major wildfires that destroyed parts of Los Angeles, after blazing for five days, causing thousands of terrified residents to evacuate their homes moments ahead of the leaping flames. At least 16 civilians have died, 16 others are missing, and many more have been hurt in the wind-driven fires that spread quickly and are still burning today in some parts of Los Angeles County. […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, October 2, 2024 (ENS) – Hurricane Helene blasted through the southern United States Thursday night as a deadly Category 4 Hurricane, claiming at least 175 lives in six states, and leaving millions still without power. Falling trees crushed buildings as historic flooding across multiple states put homes and businesses underwater. […]
MIAMI, Florida, July 4, 2024 (ENS) – Hurricane Beryl, now causing havoc across the Caribbean, is the earliest storm on record to hit Category 5 with sustained winds of 157 mph, the highest classification on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. […]
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 28, 2024 (ENS) – “You got into the mud, walked through flood water and had symptoms of leptospirosis? Seek health care, as there is treatment and we have enough medication. Treatment cannot wait, don’t stay at home thinking it will go away, […]
GAZA, April 26, 2024 (ENS) – Scorching temperatures across Gaza have magnified the daily suffering faced by the area’s displaced people and renewed fears of disease outbreaks due to a lack of clean water and waste disposal, United Nations humanitarians said on Thursday. […]
BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 2, 2024 (ENS) – The tugboat Crystal Coast pushing a fuel barge, sailed through the temporary alternate channel created by the Key Bridge Response Unified Command, at 3 pm Monday afternoon. It was the first vessel to use the channel since the Francis Scott Key Bridge, struck by a container ship, collapsed into the Patapsco River on March 26, killing six workmen, severing road and shipping transport across the river, and closing the busy Port of Baltimore. […]
PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) – Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water to mark World Water Day. […]
ADEN, Yemen, March 2, 2024 (ENS) – The UK-owned cargo ship Rubymar, attacked by Houthi militants in mid-February, finally sank in the Red Sea Friday night off the coast of Yemen in rough, stormy seas. The internationally recognized government of this small, war-wracked country warned Saturday that an “environmental catastrophe” could result if the ship’s cargo of fertilizer is lost into the sea. […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 16, 2024 (ENS) – At least two vessels were involved in an incident that is spilling gobs of black crude oil across a widening area of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of South America. Emanating from a capsized barge off Tobago’s southwest coast, the oil has fouled some of the pristine beaches that attract so many tourists to the tropical island, the country’s Coast Guard has confirmed. […]
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, February 12, 2024 (ENS) – An abandoned vessel that capsized just 200 meters (656 feet) from the coast of Tobago’s new Cove Eco-Industrial Park has been leaking oil for days, and now some 10 kilometers (six miles) of the Caribbean island’s coastline is fouled with the oily mess. […]
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 12, 2024 (ENS) – After two months of heavy rain, the waters of the Congo River have risen higher than anyone has seen them in more than 60 years. The flooding rains have claimed more than 300 lives and disrupted 300,000+ households in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 17 lives in the Republic of the Congo, authorities on both sides of the river said. […]
NEW YORK, New York, November 10, 2023 (ENS) – World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today briefed an Emergency Meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the health situation in Gaza, as Israeli forces attacked hospitals, forcing thousands of civilians sheltering there to flee. […]
ACAPULCO, Mexico, October 27, 2023 (ENS) – Hurricane Otis slammed into the beach resort city of Acapulco as a Category 5 storm early Wednesday, claiming the lives of at least 27 people and leaving four others still missing, numbers that have remained unchanged for the past 24 hours… […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – Two huge disasters have hit northern African countries in the past month – a major earthquake in Morocco and devastating flooding in Libya caused by Storm Daniel. […]
KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, August 25, 2023 (ENS) – Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Maui Electric Co., Thursday, alleging civil damages from the deadly August 8 fires in Lahaina. The lawsuit claims that Hawaiian Electric’s energized and downed power lines sparked three different fires by igniting dry grass and brush in the hills above Lahaina and elsewhere in Upcountry Maui. […]
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Governor Josh Green, M.D., and First Lady Jaime Kanani Green accompanied President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, members of the Hawaii Congressional delegation and others, on an assessment of the wildfire damage to Lahaina Monday. […]
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