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  Earth Commission: ‘Sick’ Planet Needs Safe and Just Treatment

  May 31, 2023 Comments Off on Earth Commission: ‘Sick’ Planet Needs Safe and Just Treatment

  STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 31, 2023 (ENS) – Humans are taking “colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth,” a new Earth Commission study published today in the journal “Nature” concludes. [...]

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  UNESCO Designates 18 New Gorgeous Global Geoparks

  May 24, 2023 Comments Off on UNESCO Designates 18 New Gorgeous Global Geoparks

  PARIS, France, May 24, 2023 (ENS) – The United Nations is adding 18 new sites to its network of outstanding Geoparks, showcasing some of the most marvelous sites of natural beauty on the planet. The [...]

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  A ‘Critical Moment’ for the Colorado River

  May 24, 2023 Comments Off on A ‘Critical Moment’ for the Colorado River

  WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2023 (ENS) – The Colorado River flows for 1,450 miles across the western United States, carving the Grand Canyon on the way, and into Mexico, where it once flowed to the [...]

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  Western Tribes Funded for Clean Water, Power, Dam Safety

  May 23, 2023 Comments Off on Western Tribes Funded for Clean Water, Power, Dam Safety

  SUPAI, Arizona, May 23, 2023 (ENS) – Tribal communities in five Western states: Arizona, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Washington, will receive millions from the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Secretary of the Interior Deb [...]

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  Ukrainian, U.S. Prosecutors Go After Environmental War Crimes

  May 19, 2023 Comments Off on Ukrainian, U.S. Prosecutors Go After Environmental War Crimes

  WASHINGTON, DC, May 19, 2023 (ENS) – Eight guests from the Ukraine Prosecutor General’s Office are in Washington this week for a series of training and study sessions at the U.S. Justice Department on the [...]

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  Discarded Cigarette Butts Leak Thousands of Killer Chemicals

  May 18, 2023 Comments Off on Discarded Cigarette Butts Leak Thousands of Killer Chemicals

  GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 18, 2023 (ENS) – On the trail, in the gutter, at the bus stop, in the park, on the beach, cigarette butts are everywhere. In fact, cigarette filters are the world’s most [...]

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  LOUISIANA: Shell Expands World’s Largest Refining Catalyst Plant

  May 17, 2023 Comments Off on LOUISIANA: Shell Expands World’s Largest Refining Catalyst Plant

  PORT ALLEN, Louisiana, May 17, 2023 (ENS) – The largest refining catalyst plant in the world is expanding. Shell Catalysts & Technologies, a member of the Shell family of companies, is located in Port Allen, [...]

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  WMO: Global Temperature Headed for ‘Uncharted Territory’

  May 17, 2023 Comments Off on WMO: Global Temperature Headed for ‘Uncharted Territory’

  GENEVA, Switzerland, May 17, 2023 (ENS) – Fueled by high levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Niño event, global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five [...]

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  U.S. Ends Private Ownership and Breeding of Big Cats

  May 11, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Ends Private Ownership and Breeding of Big Cats

  WASHINGTON, DC, May 11, 2023 (ENS) – Somewhere in the United States an estimated 20,000 big cats are kept in private ownership, often purchased as cubs or bred for photo opportunities. according to the U.S. [...]

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  Bird Flu Kills Condors Recovering From Near Extinction

  May 8, 2023 Comments Off on Bird Flu Kills Condors Recovering From Near Extinction

  PHOENIX, Arizona, May 8, 2023 (ENS) – Bird flu has killed 21 endangered California condors in northern Arizona this spring, weakening a reintroduced flock that has been carefully nurtured for decades. […]

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  Amazon’s ‘Dark Earth’ Secret Promises Global Forest Renewal

  May 7, 2023 Comments Off on Amazon’s ‘Dark Earth’ Secret Promises Global Forest Renewal

  SAO PAULO, Brazil, May 7, 2023 (ENS) – Millions of Amerindian people living centuries ago in today’s Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil. The result is Amazonian dark earth, ADE, or terra preta, fertile and [...]

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  Cities of the Americas Share Climate Migration Solutions

  May 7, 2023 Comments Off on Cities of the Americas Share Climate Migration Solutions

  DENVER, Colorado, May 7, 2023 (ENS) – Michael Hancock, third-term mayor of Denver, the Mile High City in the Rocky Mountains, has worked his way up. He knows from experience how essential the role of [...]

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  COVID-19 Global Public Health Emergency Ends: Threat Remains

  May 5, 2023 Comments Off on COVID-19 Global Public Health Emergency Ends: Threat Remains

  GENEVA, Switzerland, May 5, 2023 (ENS) – COVID-19 no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization announced today, following the advice of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on [...]

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  Biden Again Strengthens Vehicle Emissions Standards

  April 13, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Again Strengthens Vehicle Emissions Standards

  WASHINGTON, DC, April 13, 2023 (ENS) – The benefits of the “most ambitious pollution standards ever,” will top costs by US$1 trillion, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency promised Tuesday, announcing new, stricter vehicle pollution standards [...]

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  Squash Bee Populations Growing Fast While Other Bees Fail

  April 4, 2023 Comments Off on Squash Bee Populations Growing Fast While Other Bees Fail

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 4, 2023 (ENS) – Numbers of bees and other pollinator species have declined worldwide, as these insects suffer due to pesticides and pathogens, likely amplified by climate change, yet one bee [...]

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  Biden Guards ‘Breathtaking’ Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments

  March 30, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Guards ‘Breathtaking’ Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 26, 2023 (ENS) – At the White House Conservation in Action Summit Tuesday, President Joe Biden established two new national monuments, one in Nevada and one in Texas, protecting over half a [...]

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  Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates

  March 28, 2023 Comments Off on Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates

  KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, March 28 (ENS) – Yet another suspected poacher has died in a hail of bullets fired by unknown gunmen in the eastern province of Mpumalanga’s landscape of fear. Clyde Mnisi, [...]

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  Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons

  March 27, 2023 Comments Off on Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons

  VIENNA, Austria, March 27, 2023 (ENS) – International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday to plan protection for the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, [...]

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  COLORADO: Wild Horses Get New Refuge Larger Than Manhattan

  March 23, 2023 Comments Off on COLORADO: Wild Horses Get New Refuge Larger Than Manhattan

  CRAIG, Colorado, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – The nonprofit Wild Animal Sanctuary has just acquired a large piece of land in northwest Colorado near the historic town of Steamboat Springs and is turning it into [...]

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  LOUISIANA: US Sues Japanese Firm Over Chloroprene Emissions

  March 23, 2023 Comments Off on LOUISIANA: US Sues Japanese Firm Over Chloroprene Emissions

  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – A federal court in Louisiana is being asked to order a Japanese company manufacturing neoprene in the state, to install pollution controls to reduce emissions of chloroprene, [...]

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  MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke Must Spend $27M to Beat Sewage Overflow

  March 23, 2023 Comments Off on MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke Must Spend $27M to Beat Sewage Overflow

  HOLYOKE, Massachusetts, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – The Justice Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have entered into a $27 million agreement with the City of Holyoke to reduce overflow [...]

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  OHIO: Norfolk Southern Train Wreck Remediation Makes Progress

  March 21, 2023 Comments Off on OHIO: Norfolk Southern Train Wreck Remediation Makes Progress

  COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 21, 2023 (ENS) – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted Tuesday issued a letter to Norfolk Southern Corporation President and CEO Alan Shaw in advance of his expected testimony [...]

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  Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579

  March 21, 2023 Comments Off on Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579

  BLANTYRE, Malawi, March 21, 2023 (ENS) – Tropical Cyclone Freddy is a record-breaking storm that has astonished meteorologists with its longevity. As part of its final act, the cyclone unleashed destructive floods and landslides on [...]

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  IPCC: Liveable Future Possible If We Defuse Climate Time-Bomb

  March 20, 2023 Comments Off on IPCC: Liveable Future Possible If We Defuse Climate Time-Bomb

  INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 20, 2023 (ENS) – Global temperatures have already risen to 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels, as well as unequal and unsustainable energy [...]

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  Conservationists Sue to Stop ConocoPhillips Alaska Oil Venture

  March 16, 2023 Comments Off on Conservationists Sue to Stop ConocoPhillips Alaska Oil Venture

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 16, 2023 (ENS) – Warning that the U.S. government’s environmental review fails to account for the full climate impact of oil development in Alaska, five of America’s largest conservation groups have filed [...]

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  Biden Proposes National Standard for PFAS in Drinking Water

  March 14, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Proposes National Standard for PFAS in Drinking Water

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 14, 2023 (ENS) – The today proposed the first national drinking water standard for six harmful “forever chemicals” in the latest action under President Joe Biden’s plan to combat PFAS pollution and [...]

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  Freight Train Derailment Politics

  March 9, 2023 Comments Off on Freight Train Derailment Politics

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw apologized today during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for the February derailment of a Norfolk Southern [...]

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  Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency

  March 9, 2023 Comments Off on Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency

  SACRAMENTO, California, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Knowing that a series of storms are forecast to continue blowing across California through mid-March, and an atmospheric river event is predicted for later this week, Governor Gavin [...]

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  All Is Not Lost: Pioneering Restorations of the Natural World

  March 1, 2023 Comments Off on All Is Not Lost: Pioneering Restorations of the Natural World

  NAIROBI, Kenya, March 1, 2023 (ENS) – For the first time, the United Nations has recognized 10 trail-blazing efforts from across the globe that are restoring the natural world. Declared World Restoration Flagships, these 10 [...]

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  Facing Major Lawsuit, 3M to Stop Making ‘Forever Chemicals’

  February 9, 2023 Comments Off on Facing Major Lawsuit, 3M to Stop Making ‘Forever Chemicals’

  CHARLESTON, South Carolina, February 9, 2023 (ENS) – The 3M Company, which developed and manufactured firefighting foams containing per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, called “forever chemicals,” is in a legal battle to avoid stiff financial [...]