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Land Use/Forests

World’s Best Wild Salmon Run Protected From Huge Mine

November 30, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Air/Climate

GM Quits Trump Suit to Strip California’s Emissions Control

November 25, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

Levi
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Filming The Power of Youth

November 25, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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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Latest News

Leapin’ Lizards: Argentine Tegus Run Wild in Georgia

November 24, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Air/Climate

John Kerry to Head Biden Administration’s Climate Team

November 23, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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

November 19, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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

November 18, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

FSO Safer
Latest News

Leaking Oil Tanker Abandoned Off Yemen a Red Sea Risk

November 17, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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, [...]

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Health

Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Nearly 95% Effective

November 16, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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At Risk

Nicaragua, Honduras Again in Path of Monster Hurricane

November 16, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Health

Pfizer 1st With COVID Vaccine, Claims Over 90% Efficacy

November 11, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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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Latest News

Pandemic Forces Enviro Film Fest in D.C. to Go Virtual

November 10, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Health

Calling All Film-Makers

November 9, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Air/Climate

President-elect Biden to Restore U.S. Climate Leadership

November 8, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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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Latest News

Trump Pushes Gray Wolf off Endangered Species List

November 7, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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At Risk

Hurricane Eta Kills 3 Central Americans, Aims at Florida

November 4, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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

November 2, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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