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  Protecting Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer: A Success Story

  September 16, 2025 Comments Off on Protecting Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer: A Success Story

  “Forty years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer – guided by science, united in action,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today, in honor of the day [...]

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  COLORADO: Backroom Deal Lets Suncor Avoid Water Permit Rules

  September 15, 2025 Comments Off on COLORADO: Backroom Deal Lets Suncor Avoid Water Permit Rules

  DENVER, Colorado, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Environmental justice and conservation groups today sounded the alarm over a backroom deal to avoid enforcement of key water permit provisions that was forged between the State of [...]

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  Chemists Transform Plastic Trash Into Climate Solution

  September 15, 2025 Comments Off on Chemists Transform Plastic Trash Into Climate Solution

  COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have found a way to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable capture of the most abundant greenhouse [...]

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  Oceans Beyond Borders: High Seas Treaty Prepares for Kickoff

  September 9, 2025 Comments Off on Oceans Beyond Borders: High Seas Treaty Prepares for Kickoff

  NEW YORK, New York, September 9, 2025 (ENS) – International talks on a treaty to govern the high seas beyond national jurisdictions began on a freezing February day in 2006 at UN Headquarters in New [...]

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

  September 8, 2025 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 [...]

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  Giraffes Reclassified to Four Distinct Species, Not Just One

  September 8, 2025 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 [...]

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  2,205 Dead in Afghanistan Quake, Survivors Need Everything

  September 4, 2025 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 [...]

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  3 Western States Form Scientific Alliance for Vaccine Access

  September 4, 2025 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 [...]

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  Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Jail Shut in 60 Days

  August 24, 2025 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 [...]

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  World’s First Plastics Treaty Agreement Proves Elusive

  August 23, 2025 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 [...]

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

  August 20, 2025 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 [...]

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  Thirsty, ‘Starving Axis Deer’ Ravaging Hawaiian Islands

  August 14, 2025 Comments Off on Thirsty, ‘Starving Axis Deer’ Ravaging Hawaiian Islands

  WAILUKU, Maui, Hawaii, August 14, 2025 (ENS) – Hawaii Governor Josh Green, MD, declared an emergency caused by the overpopulation of axis deer plus an ongoing drought on the island of Maui two weeks ago. [...]

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  World’s Largest Dam Breaks Ground on Tibet’s Longest River

  August 8, 2025 Comments Off on World’s Largest Dam Breaks Ground on Tibet’s Longest River

  LINZI CITY, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 6, 2025 (ENS) – The world’s largest hydroelectric project held a groundbreaking ceremony in Linzhi City on July 19. Chinese Premier Li Qiang attended the event and officially announced [...]

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

  August 8, 2025 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 [...]

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

  July 31, 2025 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 [...]

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  CALIFORNIA: Conserves Record Levels of Lands, Coastal Waters

  July 8, 2025 Comments Off on CALIFORNIA: Conserves Record Levels of Lands, Coastal Waters

  SACRAMENTO, California, July 8, 2025 (ENS) – Building toward its goal of conserving 30 percent of its lands and coastal waters by 2030, the State of California has protected over one million acres of land [...]

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  Above-normal 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Looms

  June 5, 2025 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 [...]

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  Salvadoran Lawyer Arrested After Defending Deported Venezuelans

  June 5, 2025 Comments Off on Salvadoran Lawyer Arrested After Defending Deported Venezuelans

  GENEVA, Switzerland, June 5, 2025 (ENS) – The lead lawyer of a prominent Salvadoran human rights group representing the families of Venezuelan immigrants imprisoned in El Salvador after the Trump administration had them deported has [...]

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  Hawaiian Scientists Find Biggest Boom Since The Big Bang

  June 4, 2025 Comments Off on Hawaiian Scientists Find Biggest Boom Since The Big Bang

  HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 4, 2025 (ENS) – Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi’s Institute for Astronomy have found the most energetic cosmic explosions yet discovered, naming the new class of events “extreme nuclear transients,” or [...]

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

  June 4, 2025 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 [...]

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  Congress Kills California Waivers for Clean Truck, Car Rules

  June 1, 2025 Comments Off on Congress Kills California Waivers for Clean Truck, Car Rules

  WASHINGTON, DC, June 1, 2025 (ENS) – President Donald Trump is expected to sign two Congressional resolutions that will revoke the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency waivers from federal standards for California car and truck emissions [...]

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  Trump Sued on Plan to Commercialize Pacific Islands Monument

  May 29, 2025 Comments Off on Trump Sued on Plan to Commercialize Pacific Islands Monument

  HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 29, 2025 (ENS) – Sheltering island habitats, coral reefs, and open ocean, the seven national wildlife refuges of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument stretch across 490,000 square miles of the [...]

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  Dormant but Deadly: the New Middle East Landmine Crisis

  May 28, 2025 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 [...]

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  Perfumes, Lotions Suppress Human Protective Air Shield

  May 28, 2025 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 [...]

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  NEW JERSEY: 3M to Pay $450 Million in Forever Chemicals Case

  May 28, 2025 Comments Off on NEW JERSEY: 3M to Pay $450 Million in Forever Chemicals Case

  TRENTON, New Jersey, May 28, 2025 (ENS) – The State of New Jersey has announced a landmark $450 million settlement with the 3M manufacturing company to resolve damages to the state’s natural resources from PFAS, [...]

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  World-First Global Pandemic Pact ‘Victory for Public Health’

  May 21, 2025 Comments Off on World-First Global Pandemic Pact ‘Victory for Public Health’

  GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20, 2025 (ENS) – The first Pandemic Agreement in the world was today formally adopted by consensus as the Member States of the World Health Organization, WHO, voted during the 78th World [...]

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  Pangolins, Elephants: Crime Networks Wiping Out Wild Africa

  May 19, 2025 Comments Off on Pangolins, Elephants: Crime Networks Wiping Out Wild Africa

  CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19, 2025 (ENS) – A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organized crime and [...]

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  Virgin Raw Materials Clog Landfills in Weak Circular Economy

  May 17, 2025 Comments Off on Virgin Raw Materials Clog Landfills in Weak Circular Economy

  LONDON, England, May 17, 2025, (ENS) – May 2025 has become the month for advancing a global circular economy with events and conferences. The Festival of Circular Economy 2025 opens next week online and in [...]

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  U.S. EPA Chief Zeldin Backs Off Biden PFAS Clean Water Rules

  May 15, 2025 Comments Off on U.S. EPA Chief Zeldin Backs Off Biden PFAS Clean Water Rules

  WASHINGTON, DC, May 15, 2025 (ENS) – The Trump administration is rolling back drinking water protections from six PFAS, known as ‘forever chemicals,’ linked to decreased fertility in women, damaged child development, and higher cancer [...]

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  Trump’s Energy Dept. Dumps Regulations in 47 Different Ways

  May 12, 2025 Comments Off on Trump’s Energy Dept. Dumps Regulations in 47 Different Ways

  WASHINGTON, DC, May 12, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy is undertaking what the Trump administration calls the “largest deregulatory effort in history.” The agency is proposing the elimination or reduction of 47 [...]