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  1st Climate Tipping Point Plunges Planet Into ‘New Reality’

  October 13, 2025 Comments Off on 1st Climate Tipping Point Plunges Planet Into ‘New Reality’

  EXETER, England, October 13, 2025 (ENS) – “The world has entered a new reality. Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°Celsius.” Warm-water coral reefs are dying across the planet as the world hits its first climate [...]

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  Republicans Seek to Weaken U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act

  October 11, 2025 Comments Off on Republicans Seek to Weaken U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act

  WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2025 (ENS) – On July 8, Congressman Nick Begich III, an Alaska Republican, introduced a draft bill amending the Marine Mammal Protection Act, MMPA, the federal law that has governed marine [...]

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  OREGON: Gov Cuts Red Tape to Secure Clean Energy Tax Credits

  October 10, 2025 Comments Off on OREGON: Gov Cuts Red Tape to Secure Clean Energy Tax Credits

  SALEM, Oregon, October 10, 2025 (ENS) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek this week signed an Executive Order accelerating renewable wind and solar project development in the state before time runs out on federal clean energy [...]

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  Planetary Rehab Rules at IUCN World Conservation Congress

  October 9, 2025 Comments Off on Planetary Rehab Rules at IUCN World Conservation Congress

  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, October 9, 2025 (ENS) – The world’s foremost international event centered on conserving nature opened today in Abu Dhabi. Held every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is convened [...]

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  LOUISIANA: Oil, Soot From Smitty’s Fire Persists, EPA Blamed

  October 9, 2025 Comments Off on LOUISIANA: Oil, Soot From Smitty’s Fire Persists, EPA Blamed

  ROSELAND, Louisiana, October 9, 2025 (ENS) – On August 22, an explosion erupted at Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant manufacturing facility in Roseland, a town about 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge. The blaze swept through [...]

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  NEW JERSEY: Meadowlands Creek Mercury Cleanup Plan Approved

  October 8, 2025 Comments Off on NEW JERSEY: Meadowlands Creek Mercury Cleanup Plan Approved

  WOOD-RIDGE, New Jersey, October 8, 2025 (ENS) – Decades of contamination with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl, known as PCB, are now on track to be cleaned up at the Berry’s Creek Study Area adjacent to [...]

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  Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee Expert and Advocate, Dies at 91

  October 2, 2025 Comments Off on Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee Expert and Advocate, Dies at 91

  LOS ANGELES, California, October 1, 2025 (ENS) – Dr. Jane Goodall, famed chimpanzee scientist, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, died of natural causes Wednesday at the age of 91. [...]

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  OREGON: Roseburg Forest Products Drops Hardwood Plywood

  September 26, 2025 Comments Off on OREGON: Roseburg Forest Products Drops Hardwood Plywood

  DILLARD, Oregon, September 25, 2025 (ENS) – An era in Oregon forest products is coming to an end. Roseburg Forest Products, a private company founded in 1936, has ceased operations at its Dillard Hardwood Plywood [...]

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  100+ Countries Pledge Action at UN Climate Ambition Summit

  September 25, 2025 Comments Off on 100+ Countries Pledge Action at UN Climate Ambition Summit

  NEW YORK, New York, September 25, 2025 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is hosting a climate summit at the UN’s New York headquarters this week. The high-level week of the UN General Assembly is [...]

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  EU to Suspend Billions in Core Trade Concessions with Israel

  September 18, 2025 Comments Off on EU to Suspend Billions in Core Trade Concessions with Israel

  BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 18, 2025 (ENS) – The European Commission has presented its proposal to the European Council to suspend billions of euros in its trade-related provisions of the Association Agreement between the EU and [...]

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  Trump Demolishes U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

  September 17, 2025 Comments Off on Trump Demolishes U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

  WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2025 ENS – The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a complex system that serves both national and international reporting requirements to mitigate climate change, [...]

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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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  Update: Oceans Beyond Borders Treaty Prepares for Launch

  September 9, 2025 Comments Off on Update: Oceans Beyond Borders Treaty Prepares for Launch

  NEW YORK, New York, September 20, 2025 (ENS) – The High Seas Treaty has reached the 60 state ratifications needed to trigger its entry into force. Four governments this week ratified the legally-binding treaty at [...]

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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 [...]