Business
Tips for Virus-Free Payment Transactions
PRINCETON JUNCTION, New Jersey, March 31, 2020 (ENS) – The highly contagious, deadly novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, is spreading around the world in a [...]
Month: March 2020
At Risk
Capitol Hill Shivers as Lawmakers Test Virus Positive
WASHINGTON, DC, March 23, 2020 (ENS) – Senate Democrats voted down a $1.8 trillion coronavirus aid package Sunday evening with five Republican senators absent. Senator Rand Paul of [...]
Business
Private Sector Trusted to Share Virus Messaging Load
CHICAGO, Illinois, March 19, 2020 (ENS) – “These last few weeks we have all lived the consequences of low trust in government and media. We have observed that [...]
Air/Climate
Ice Cover Shrinks at North and South Poles
IRVINE, California, March 19, 2020 (ENS) – During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice, enough to raise global sea levels [...]
At Risk
COVID-19 a ‘Pandemic,’ Canada’s Prime Minister Isolated
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, March 12, 2020 (ENS) – The novel coronavirus called COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on Wednesday. There are now [...]
At Risk
WHO: Threat of Global Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Very Real’
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 11, 2020 (ENS) – “Over the weekend we crossed 100,000 reported cases of COVID-19 in 100 countries,” World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus [...]
Air/Climate
EU to Enshrine in Law Climate Neutrality by 2050
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 10, 2020 (ENS) – The European Commission has proposed to pass a law formalizing the EU’s political commitment to be climate neutral by 2050 to protect [...]
Land Use/Forests
Amazon’s 2019 Burned Area Trends Parallel Past 18 Years
ALCALA de HENARES, Spain, March 6, 2020 (ENS) – Thousands of fires broke out in the Amazon last year, sparking international media alarm. But a detailed analysis, using [...]
Land Use/Forests
Unprecedented Locust Swarms Invade East Africa
ROME, Italy, March 4, 2020 (ENS) – The East Africa region now faces a hunger threat from desert locusts, along with climate shocks, conflict and acute food insecurity, [...]