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  120 Nations, Millions of Doctors, Nurses Urge Climate Action

  December 3, 2023 Comments Off on 120 Nations, Millions of Doctors, Nurses Urge Climate Action

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 3, 2023 (ENS) – On Sunday, the first Health Day at a United Nations climate summit, more than 40 million health professionals from around the world joined the call to [...]

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  COP28: Oil Companies Jump On the Decarbonization Bandwagon

  December 2, 2023 Comments Off on COP28: Oil Companies Jump On the Decarbonization Bandwagon

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 2, 2023 (ENS) – Fifty oil and natural gas producers, including Saudi Aramco, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and 28 other national oil companies, have signed an agreement to [...]

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  UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund

  November 30, 2023 Comments Off on UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023 (ENS) – “This year’s climate conference comes as the crisis enters a new phase – and shows its full force, harming billions of people, and costing trillions,” UN [...]

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  Climate Heating Consumes Europe’s Forests: Facts Fall Short

  November 25, 2023 Comments Off on Climate Heating Consumes Europe’s Forests: Facts Fall Short

  BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 25, 2023 (ENS) – The European Commission has proposed the EU’s first Forest Monitoring Law to plug existing gaps in information about European forests. It is expected to create a comprehensive forest [...]

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  USA, China Pledge Cooperation to Overcome Climate Crisis

  November 21, 2023 Comments Off on USA, China Pledge Cooperation to Overcome Climate Crisis

  WOODSIDE, California, November 20, 2023 (ENS) – President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping are long-time acquaintances, and despite recent tensions, their in-person talks on November 15 at the Filoli Estate in Woodside yielded [...]

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  Air Pollution Exposure in Utero Disrupts Human Reproduction

  November 15, 2023 Comments Off on Air Pollution Exposure in Utero Disrupts Human Reproduction

  PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – From black puffs of diesel exhaust to the sun-blocking haze of orange wildfire smoke, air pollution is known to damage respiratory health. Now, research from Rutgers and [...]

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  U.S. Offshore Wind Power Development in Turmoil

  November 15, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Offshore Wind Power Development in Turmoil

  RICHMOND, Virginia, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the European supplier that leads the global market for offshore wind turbines, has suspended plans to build a US$200 million turbine blade factory at [...]

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  Feeling Depressed? Put Down Those Ultra-processed Foods

  November 13, 2023 Comments Off on Feeling Depressed? Put Down Those Ultra-processed Foods

  BOSTON, Massachusetts, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Everybody knows what ultraprocessed foods are – sweet snacks, ready-to-eat meals, fats and sauces, ice cream, savory snacks, cookies and chips, ham, sausages, artificial sweeteners. They can tickle [...]

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  WMO Predicts Global Heat Streak Will Persist Into 2024

  November 13, 2023 Comments Off on WMO Predicts Global Heat Streak Will Persist Into 2024

  GENEVA, Switzerland, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Temperature records were again shattered in October, continuing a streak of high land and ocean surface temperatures and low sea ice, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate [...]

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  Gaza Hospitals Destroyed as WHO, Ambassadors Urge Ceasefire

  November 10, 2023 Comments Off on Gaza Hospitals Destroyed as WHO, Ambassadors Urge Ceasefire

  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 [...]

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  SOUTH CAROLINA: Safari Owner Guilty of Wildlife Trafficking

  November 8, 2023 Comments Off on SOUTH CAROLINA: Safari Owner Guilty of Wildlife Trafficking

  FLORENCE, South Carolina, November 8, 2023 (ENS) – Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, 63, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, an American animal trainer, private zoo operator, and convicted felon, pleaded guilty Monday to a conspiracy to violate [...]

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  South Africa’s National Assembly Passes Climate Change Bill

  November 6, 2023 Comments Off on South Africa’s National Assembly Passes Climate Change Bill

  CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 6, 2023 (ENS) – South Africa’s National Assembly has passed the country’s first Climate Change Bill over objections from two political parties – the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters and the [...]

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  U.S. Devotes $128 Million to Environmental Justice Projects

  November 1, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Devotes $128 Million to Environmental Justice Projects

  WASHINGTON, DC, November 1, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced nearly $128 million to fund 186 projects across the country that advance environmental justice as part of President Joe Biden’s Investing [...]

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  Multilateral Development Banks Join to Combat ‘Polycrisis’

  October 30, 2023 Comments Off on Multilateral Development Banks Join to Combat ‘Polycrisis’

  WASHINGTON, DC, October 30, 2023 (ENS) – The World Bank and the world’s nine multilateral development banks are moving to strengthen their cooperation so they can fast-track solutions to problems in the lives of developing [...]

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  Hurricane Otis Smashes Mexico’s Pacific Beach Resort Acapulco

  October 27, 2023 Comments Off on Hurricane Otis Smashes Mexico’s Pacific Beach Resort Acapulco

  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 [...]

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  U.S. Aims to Launch First Nuclear Thermal Rocket into Space

  October 27, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Aims to Launch First Nuclear Thermal Rocket into Space

  WASHINGTON, DC, October 27, 2023 (ENS) – U.S. defense and space agencies are moving quickly toward the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket, NTR. […]

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  Wildlife Worldwide Contaminated by Flame Retardants: New Map

  October 26, 2023 Comments Off on Wildlife Worldwide Contaminated by Flame Retardants: New Map

  BERKELEY, California, October 26, 2023 (ENS) – Wild animals across every continent are contaminated with flame retardant chemicals, according to a new map tracking peer-reviewed research studies worldwide. The more than 150 species of polluted [...]

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  MICHIGAN: Steel Giant Must Spend $100M to Cut Air Pollution

  October 23, 2023 Comments Off on MICHIGAN: Steel Giant Must Spend $100M to Cut Air Pollution

  DEARBORN, Michigan, October 23, 2023 (ENS) – Two federal agencies are modifying a 2015 legal agreement the United States and State of Michigan made with AK Steel to resolve Clean Air Act violations at the [...]

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  HAWAII: U.S. Military to Drain Leaking Red Hill Fuel Tanks

  October 11, 2023 Comments Off on HAWAII: U.S. Military to Drain Leaking Red Hill Fuel Tanks

  HONOLULU, Hawaii, October 11, 2023 (ENS) – Two years after the World War II-era Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility began leaking jet fuel into Honolulu’s drinking water, the U.S. Defense Department is ready to [...]

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  Natural Disasters in Morocco, Libya Disrupt North African Life

  October 9, 2023 Comments Off on Natural Disasters in Morocco, Libya Disrupt North African Life

  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. […]

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  WMO: September Shatters Planet’s Monthly Temperature Record

  October 9, 2023 Comments Off on WMO: September Shatters Planet’s Monthly Temperature Record

  GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – The year 2023 is now on track to be the warmest year on record, as numerous high temperature records broken in recent months are again smashed… […]

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  OREGON: Dam Repair Kills Half a Million Pacific Lamprey

  October 8, 2023 Comments Off on OREGON: Dam Repair Kills Half a Million Pacific Lamprey

  ROSEBURG, Oregon, October 8, 2023 (ENS) – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife filed a $27.6 million claim for recovery of damages Friday in Douglas County Circuit Court against the Winchester Water Control District [...]

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  WEST VIRGINIA: Oil Co. Fined $825K, Must Restore Tainted Waters

  October 7, 2023 Comments Off on WEST VIRGINIA: Oil Co. Fined $825K, Must Restore Tainted Waters

  WHEELING, West Virginia, October 7, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department, working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of West Virginia, has reached a proposed consent decree with Waco Oil and [...]

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  MICHIGAN: 60+ Tribal Nations Back Enbridge Pipeline Removal

  October 7, 2023 Comments Off on MICHIGAN: 60+ Tribal Nations Back Enbridge Pipeline Removal

  LANSING, Michigan, October 7, 2023 (ENS) – A coalition of more than 60 Tribal Nations from across the U.S. Midwest and Canada, led by the Bay Mills Indian Community, has weighed in on Michigan Attorney [...]

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  Biden Waives Vital Environmental Laws to Build Border Wall

  October 6, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Waives Vital Environmental Laws to Build Border Wall

  WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2023 (ENS) – On his Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021, one of the first things Joe Biden did as President was to deliver a Proclamation lifting his predecessor’s 2019 declaration of [...]

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  ARIZONA: State Cancels Water Lease of Saudi-owned Farm

  October 4, 2023 Comments Off on ARIZONA: State Cancels Water Lease of Saudi-owned Farm

  PHOENIX, Arizona, October 4, 2023 (ENS) – Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs said Monday that the Arizona State Land Commission is ending leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm access to pump groundwater in [...]

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  U.S. Issues World’s First Fine for Mishandling Space Debris

  October 4, 2023 Comments Off on U.S. Issues World’s First Fine for Mishandling Space Debris

  WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2023 (ENS) – The Enforcement Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Monday cracked down on the publicly traded Dish Network Corporation over the TV and technology company’s failure “to properly [...]

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  UN Chief Excludes World’s Top Polluters from Climate Summit

  September 25, 2023 Comments Off on UN Chief Excludes World’s Top Polluters from Climate Summit

  NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres aimed a message at the world’s largest polluters Wednesday when he excluded them from his Climate Ambition Summit that took place [...]

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  California Sues Big Oil for Decades of Climate Deception

  September 19, 2023 Comments Off on California Sues Big Oil for Decades of Climate Deception

  OAKLAND, California, September 18, 2023 (ENS) – Alleging decades-long campaigns of deception and statewide climate change-related damage in California, the State Friday filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies: [...]

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  Biden Admin Invests $100 Million in Recycling Infrastructure

  September 14, 2023 Comments Off on Biden Admin Invests $100 Million in Recycling Infrastructure

  WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is receiving more than $100 million from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand recycling infrastructure and waste management systems across [...]