Air/Climate
40 Million Medical Pros Prescribe Green Recovery for G20
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 27, 2020 (ENS) – Forty million health professionals Tuesday sent a letter to the leaders of each of the G20 nations, calling for a healthy [...]
Month: May 2020
Energy
Polluting Michigan Power Plants to Close December 2022
DETROIT, Michigan, May 27, 2020 (ENS) – DTE Energy has agreed to a date certain to close three polluting coal-fired power plans and the company will invest $7.5 [...]
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South Africa’s Live Wild Animal Trade to China Exposed
By Andreas Wilson-Spath
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 26, 2020 (ENS) – Chimpanzees, Bengal tigers, wolves, wild dogs and lions are among thousands of endangered wild animals exported [...]
At Risk
Cyclone Amphun Blasts India, Bangladesh, Killing 100+
DELHI, India, May 22, 2020 (ENS) – At least 102 people have lost their lives as the intense cyclone Amphan slammed into India and Bangladesh on Wednesday and [...]
At Risk
Dangerous 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 21, 2020 (ENS) – There is a 60 percent chance of an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, with three to six major hurricanes, forecasters [...]
Business
Vulnerable Nations Receive Billions for Virus Response
WASHINGTON, DC, May 20, 2020 (ENS) – The unprecedented coronavirus crisis the world is now going through could push 60 million people in developing countries into extreme poverty, [...]
Business
Impact Investors Confront Coronavirus Crisis
NEW YORK, New York, May 18, 2020 (ENS) – A new coalition of impact investors has come together to bring their formidable entrepreneurial skills to bear on the [...]
Food
Opinion: Farmers Deserve Support to Cope With Stress
By Bob Worth
LAKE BENTON, Minnesota, May 13, 2020 (ENS) – Farm stress is certainly not a new concept. My father saw rural suicide rates spike in his [...]
Land Use/Forests
Lawsuit Tests Trump’s Grab of $7.2B for Border Wall
WASHINGTON, DC, May 12, 2020 (ENS) – Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration for taking $7.2 billion from the Department of Defense for border wall construction from [...]
Energy
Oxford University Will End Fossil Fuel Investments
OXFORD, England, May 12, 2020 (ENS) – Oxford University has announced its new plan to divest formally from the fossil fuel industry. The oldest university in the English-speaking [...]
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Greener Process Grows U.S. Supply of Rare Earth Metals
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, May 11, 2020 (ENS) – Mining for rare earth metals is about to become more environmentally and economically feasible though a process newly developed and [...]
Health
Dogs Trained to Sniff Out Coronavirus Could Start in July
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 6, 2020 (ENS) – Scent detection dogs are being trained to discriminate between samples from COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative patients under a new research [...]
Land Use/Forests
Montana Court Vacates 278 BLM Oil and Gas Leases
GREAT FALLS, Montana, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – Montana landowners, farmers, and conservation groups have won a victory in their effort to protect local groundwater and the climate. [...]
At Risk
Global Vaccine Telethon Raises $8 Billion Without USA
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – To battle the deadly coronavirus, six countries, the European Commission and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Monday pledged billions in [...]
Health
New York State Recruits Army of Virus Contact Tracers
ALBANY, New York, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – Amid the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic that has hit New York harder than any other state, New York Governor Andrew [...]
Energy
Pandemic Shock to Energy Industry Greatest in 70 Years
PARIS, France, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the global economy, forcing large parts of the world into confinement and “creating the [...]
At Risk
First Invasive ‘Murder Hornets’ Found in United States
OLYMPIA, Washington, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – “Murder hornets,” known officially as Asian giant hornets, Vespa mandarinia, have made their first appearance in the United States. These [...]