Land Use/Forests
World’s Best Wild Salmon Run Protected From Huge Mine
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, November 29, 2020 (ENS) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied a permit to the proposed Pebble Mine, a giant copper and gold mine in [...]
Month: November 2020
Air/Climate
GM Quits Trump Suit to Strip California’s Emissions Control
DETROIT, Michigan, November 25, 2020 (ENS) – General Motors CEO Mary Barra said on Monday the company is pulling out of a lawsuit led by the Trump administration against [...]
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Filming The Power of Youth
EUGENE, Oregon, November 25, 2020 (ENS) – If you don’t want to miss out on the virtual and educational opportunity of a lifetime, you’ll want to attend the world [...]
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Leapin’ Lizards: Argentine Tegus Run Wild in Georgia
ATLANTA, Georgia, November 24, 2020 (ENS) – Georgia wildlife officials and their partners are scrambling to eradicate a wild population of large invasive black and white Argentine lizards called [...]
Air/Climate
John Kerry to Head Biden Administration’s Climate Team
WASHINGTON, DC, November 23, 2020 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden today announced key members of his foreign policy and national security team including, for the first time, a Special [...]
Air/Climate
Wary Funders Drop Proposed South African Coal Plant
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 19, 2020 (ENS) – “Major climate impacts and exorbitant costs have sounded the death knell” for one of the last new proposed coal-fired power [...]
Air/Climate
Bezos Opens $10 Billion Earth Fund With Climate Grants
SEATTLE, Washington, November 17, 2020 (ENS) – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, is giving nearly $800 million to 16 environmental groups in the first donations from [...]
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Leaking Oil Tanker Abandoned Off Yemen a Red Sea Risk
NEW YORK, New York, November 17, 2020 (ENS) – Technical experts must be granted immediate access to a rusting oil supertanker threatening an environmental calamity in the Red Sea, [...]
Health
Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Nearly 95% Effective
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, November 16, 2020 (ENS) – Moderna, a Massachusetts biotechnology company pioneering therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, has been rated 94.5 percent [...]
At Risk
Nicaragua, Honduras Again in Path of Monster Hurricane
MIAMI, Florida, November 16, 2020 (ENS) – The word iota means something very small, but the Category 5 Hurricane Iota now bearing down on Central America is the exact [...]
Health
Pfizer 1st With COVID Vaccine, Claims Over 90% Efficacy
NEW YORK, New York, November 11, 2020 (ENS) – Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is the first company to announce a successful vaccine candidate that is safe and effective in preventing [...]
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Pandemic Forces Enviro Film Fest in D.C. to Go Virtual
WASHINGTON, DC, November 10, 2020 (ENS) – The largest green film festival in the world and the longest-running film fest in the United States, the Environmental Film Festival in [...]
Health
Calling All Film-Makers
By Georgia Seidman
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 9, 2020 (ENS) – The opportunity has arrived for young film-makers to submit an original short film to the second Health for All [...]
Air/Climate
President-elect Biden to Restore U.S. Climate Leadership
WASHINGTON, DC, November 8, 2020 (ENS) – Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declared President-elect of the United States on Saturday after slow, meticulous vote-counting that kept the nation on [...]
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Trump Pushes Gray Wolf off Endangered Species List
WASHINGTON, DC, November 7, 2020 (ENS) – To the dismay of conservationists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has opened hunting season on gray wolves across the United States [...]
At Risk
Hurricane Eta Kills 3 Central Americans, Aims at Florida
MIAMI, Florida, November 4, 2020 (ENS) – Slow-moving, wet and windy, Hurricane Eta made landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, on the coast of Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane [...]
Health
Virus Quarantines World Health Organization Chief
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 2, 2020 (ENS) – The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is in quarantine tonight as he has been exposed to the [...]