At Risk
Children, Hope of the World, At Risk
NEW YORK, New York, December 31, 2019 (ENS) – Young people are his greatest source of hope, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the world today in his New [...]
Year: 2019
At Risk
Deadly Australian Bushfires Linked to Climate Change
SYDNEY, Australia, December 23, 2019 (ENS) – As hundreds of climate change-fueled bushfires blaze across Australia, Sydney and New South Wales north coast residents continue to suffer from [...]
Air/Climate
Weak COP25 Outcome Disappoints Despite Achievements
MADRID, Spain, December 16, 2019 (ENS) – Climate negotiations lasting 16 days failed to find common ground on international carbon trading rules, one of the important issues at [...]
Latest News
New Animal Rules Rattle South African Tourism Industry
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, December 13, 2019 (ENS) – Interactions with all infant wildlife, walking with predators or elephants, interacting with predators and the riding of wild animals are [...]
Air/Climate
Climate Activists Kicked Out of COP25 Are Readmitted
MADRID, Spain, December 12, 2019 (ENS) – Young activists who occupied the main stage at the United Nations’ COP 25 climate conference in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday during [...]
Food
New York State Bans Aerial Spraying of Chlorpyrifos
ALBANY, New York, December 11, 2019 (ENS) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday directed the state Department of Environmental Conservation, DEC, to take immediate action to ban [...]
Air/Climate
Courageous Young People Battle Climate Crisis
MADRID, Spain, December 10, 2019 (ENS) – As environmental disasters unfolded across the world in 2019, it is fearless children and young adults who have dared to speak [...]
Air/Climate
Protecting Whales Can Help Avert Climate Change
WASHINGTON, DC, December 6, 2019 (ENS) – A fresh perspective on the world’s whale population could be “earth-changing,” writes the World Economic Forum’s Katharine Rooney in a new [...]
Air/Climate
COP25: Rescue of Earth’s Climate Hangs in the Balance
MADRID, Spain, December 3, 2019 (ENS) – The 25th annual UN Climate Change Conference, COP25, opened Monday in Madrid with many delegates sharing a sense of urgency to make [...]
Air/Climate
Greenhouse Gases Hit Yet Another Record High
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 26, 2019 (ENS) – Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization, WMO. [...]
Business
European Investment Bank to Stop Financing Fossil Fuels
KIRCHBERG, Luxembourg, November 19, 2019 (ENS) – The European Investment Bank will end financing for fossil fuel energy projects from the end of 2021, bank officials have announced. [...]
Energy
Rare Earth Elements Focus of U.S.-Australia Agreement
WASHINGTON, DC, November 18, 2019 (ENS) – Officials from the United States and Australia today signed a memorandum of understanding pledging cooperation to secure a steady supply of [...]
Land Use/Forests
Australia’s Victoria State Protects Old-Growth Forests
MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia, November 18, 2019 (ENS) – Logging in the remaining old-growth forests of the Australian state of Victoria will cease immediately, protecting around 90,000 hectares, with [...]
Transport
Multi-Player Games Engage Passengers in Driverless Cars
WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, November 18, 2019 (ENS) – Gaming with family members, or even strangers, in nearby self-driving cars out on the road could soon be a reality [...]
At Risk
Eastern U.S Shivers in Record Cold Weather
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, November 13, 2019 (ENS) – The arctic outbreak that has been gripping much of the central and eastern United States will culminate this morning with [...]
Energy
Science in Action: Arctic Residents Embrace Renewables
HANOVER, New Hampshire, November 12, 2019 (ENS) – Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has accepted an invitation to partner with Qaanaaq, an Arctic hunting and fishing [...]
Land Use/Forests
Fixation on Nitrogen
PRINCETON, New Jersey, November 11, 2019 (ENS) – Scientists at three North American universities have discovered one of nature’s “backup methods” for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients. Research [...]
Air/Climate
Violence in Chile Pushes UN Climate Conference to Spain
SANTIAGO, Chile, November 6, 2019 (ENS) – Violent anti-government protests that have left at least 18 people dead, have cost Chile its role as host country for this [...]
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MIT Engineers Find New Way to Remove CO2 From Air
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, October 29, 2019 (ENS) – A new way of removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stream of air could provide a valuable tool [...]
Land Use/Forests
Largest U.S. National Forest Faces Roadless Rule Repeal
JUNEAU, Alaska, October 29, 2019 (ENS) – The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comments on its plan to exempt Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless [...]