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Month: August 2019

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World Water Week: Water Scarcity Becoming Urgent

August 28, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on World Water Week: Water Scarcity Becoming Urgent

 

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 28, 2019 (ENS) – When World Water Week opened in Stockholm Monday, speakers at the annual event addressing global water issues called for an immediate [...]

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CITES Bans Sale of Wild Baby African Elephants to Zoos

August 28, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on CITES Bans Sale of Wild Baby African Elephants to Zoos

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 28, 2019 (ENS) – Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a cliff-hanger of a win for elephants at the triennial Conference of the Parties to the Convention [...]

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Gov/Politics

Trump Disrupts France’s Effort to Green the G7 Summit

August 26, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Disrupts France’s Effort to Green the G7 Summit

 

BIARRITZ, France, August 26, 2019 (ENS) – The seven industrialized countries that make up the Group of Seven (G7) – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom [...]

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At Risk

Fires Destroy Amazon Rainforest at Record Pace

August 23, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Fires Destroy Amazon Rainforest at Record Pace

 

BRASILIA, Brazil, August 23, 2019 (ENS) – South America’s Amazon rainforest is burning in many places, blazing away so fiercely that the fires are visible from space. Smoke [...]

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Governments Protect Giraffes at CITES Meeting

August 23, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Governments Protect Giraffes at CITES Meeting

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 23, 2019 (ENS) – Giraffes will now be protected against trade in their body parts for the first time. Delegates from 183 countries to the [...]

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Newark Drinking Water Emergency: Lead Filters Failing

August 20, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Newark Drinking Water Emergency: Lead Filters Failing

 

NEWARK, New Jersey, August 20, 2019 (ENS) – Filters intended to remove lead in the city of Newark’s tap water are not working as expected in at least [...]

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At Risk

Greece Ablaze: First rescEU Planes Deployed

August 16, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Greece Ablaze: First rescEU Planes Deployed

 

ATHENS, Greece, August 16, 2019 (ENS) – Hundreds of residents have been evacuated from towns, villages and a monastery on Evia, Greece’s second largest island, where fire has [...]

elephants
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CITES to Update Wildlife Trade Rules for 550 Species

August 13, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on CITES to Update Wildlife Trade Rules for 550 Species

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 13, 2019 (ENS) – The 183 countries that are Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, CITES, will adopt decisions and resolutions [...]

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Trump Rolls Back Endangered Species Act Protections

August 12, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Rolls Back Endangered Species Act Protections

 

WASHINGTON, DC, August 12, 2019 (ENS) – In an attack on imperiled wildlife, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Commerce’s National Marine [...]

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New Brazilian Monkey Already At Risk of Habitat Loss

August 9, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on New Brazilian Monkey Already At Risk of Habitat Loss

MANAUS, Brazil, August 9, 2019 (ENS) – A new species of marmoset has been discovered in the southwest of Brazil’s Pará state in an area of the Amazon that [...]

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Air/Climate

Climate Change Undercutting World Food Security

August 8, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Change Undercutting World Food Security

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 8, 2019 (ENS) – Climate change is pressuring all four pillars of the world’s food security: availability (yield and production), access (prices and ability to [...]

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Energy

Comparing America’s Most Energy-Efficient Cities

August 6, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Comparing America’s Most Energy-Efficient Cities

 

WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2019 (ENS) – Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC top the latest energy-efficiency scorecard from the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient [...]

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Krypton Reveals Ancient Aquifer Under the Negev Desert

August 5, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Krypton Reveals Ancient Aquifer Under the Negev Desert

 

BEERSHEBA, Israel, August 5, 2019 (ENS) – The Negev Desert, which covers half of Israel’s landmass, is so dry that parts of it get less than three inches [...]

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