CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 27, 2025 (ENS) – West Virginia, where the state’s 1.7 million residents experience high rates of preventable deaths and a lower life expectancy than the national average, adopted a ban on seven chemical food dyes and preservatives this week. The chemicals have been linked to neurobehavioral problems and cancer in some children. […]
By Don Pinnock CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 20, 2025 (ENS) – Globally renowned South African conservationist and National Geographic Explorer, Vincent van der Merwe, who organised the transfer of […]
MANDAN, North Dakota, March 19, 2025 (ENS) – A Morton County jury of nine reached a verdict Wednesday in Energy Transfer’s lawsuit against three Greenpeace entities, finding them liable for more than US$660 million in damages. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2025 – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced 31 actions the agency has taken to deregulate the American system of environmental protections across the country. Zeldin says he took these actions “to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and power the Great American Comeback.” […]
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 […]
LYON, France, March 9, 2025 (ENS) – Some
20,000 live animals, all endangered or protected species, have been seized during Operation Thunder, the biggest global crackdown against wildlife and forestry trafficking networks in history, jointly coordinated by Interpol and the World Customs Organization. […]
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 8, 2025 (ENS) – A new low-cost sensor that detects airborne H5N1 avian flu in under five minutes sounds mighty good as bird flu continues to spread, infecting 70 people in the United States in the past 11 months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has confirmed. One person has died. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2025 (ENS) – The Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings said Tuesday that it will sell all shares in its subsidiaries Hutchison Port Holdings and Hutchison Port Group Holdings to a consortium that includes the U.S. company BlackRock Inc. in a deal valued at close to US$23 billion that carries $5 billion in debt. […]
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 […]
SARAWAK, Malaysia, February 24, 2025 (ENS) – In a victory for Indigenous communities defending their customary lands, the timber company Samling Timber Malaysia has withdrawn several of its timber concessions […]
BERLIN, Germany, February 16, 2025 (ENS) – With new funding, Germany’s Environment Ministry, the nonprofit WWF Germany, and the international police force Interpol are joining forces to stop criminals making billions in profits every year by destroying nature. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 10, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has created a Crypto Task Force with a page on its website detailing the agency’s new […]
BEIJING, China, February 7, 2025 (ENS) – Ocean warming in 2024 has produced the hottest ocean temperatures ever recorded by humans, hot not only at the surface but also for […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 25, 2025 (ENS) – In President Donald J. Trump’s first five days in office, he has made sweeping changes to the position of the United States on climate change and fossil fuel development that will have far-reaching negative effects on both the physical and political environments across the United States and around the world. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2025 (ENS) – Amidst far-reaching climatic and political changes, one opportunity for bipartisan environmental restoration has been overlooked. The National Prescribed Fire Act was introduced for the third time in May 2024 by a bipartisan group of legislators to support the preventative fire management technique of controlled burning – setting fires in safe conditions to mitigate the risk of larger, more dangerous wildfires. […]
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. […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, January 6, 2025 (ENS) – Authorities in Paraguay have arrested 26 individuals, and they have identified two criminal networks and 12 companies suspected of illegal deforestation and […]
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Rainbow tree, Japanese Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Oregon, USA. (Photo credit unknown) […]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 21, 2024 (ENS) – In one of the last actions of the outgoing Biden-Harris Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy will […]
NUUK, Greenland, December 18, 2024 (ENS) – Paul Watson, the Canadian-American whale conservationist and star of Animal Planet’s TV show “Whale Wars” is a free man today after enduring 150 […]
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