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 [...]
Month: December 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 [...]
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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 [...]