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 [...]
Year: 2020
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 [...]
Latest News
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 [...]
Latest News
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 [...]
Land Use/Forests
Trump Opens Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging
WASHINGTON, DC, October 28, 2020 (ENS) – President Donald Trump’s administration has finalized plans to reverse roadless protections for the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska that have been [...]
At Risk
Zeta Strikes Louisiana, Fifth Hurricane This Season
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 28, 2020 (ENS) – Hurricane Zeta has just made landfall as a 110 mile per hour, Category 2 hurricane near Cocodrie, Louisiana, a fishing, shrimping [...]
Business
French Companies Integrate Biodiversity Impact Assessment
PARIS, France, October 27, 2020 (ENS) – A tool that will allow investors to measure how their investments impact biodiversity – the diversity of plants and animals – is [...]
Air/Climate
UN Virtual Climate Dialogues to Fill COP26 Gap
BONN, Germany, October 27, 2020 (ENS) – The Climate Dialogues, a series of virtual climate change events, will be offered by the United Nations from November 23 to [...]
Energy
U.S. Renewable Energy Lab Energizes Remote Communities
GOLDEN, Colorado, October 23, 2020 (ENS) – In rural Northern California, inland American Indian reservations risk being “islanded” from the larger electricity grid should a wildfire disable the single [...]
Air/Climate
Trump vs Biden: Environment in the Final Debate
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, October 23, 2020 (ENS) – Republican President Donald Trump and his challenger in the November 3 election former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, faced [...]
Latest News
New Smart Windows Generate Power as They Change Color
GOLDEN, Colorado, October 21, 2020 (ENS) – A thermochromic window that darkens automatically in the sun and simultaneously uses the sun to generate electricity has been invented by scientists [...]
Gov/Politics
Legal? Trump’s Raid on Military Funds for Border Wall
WASHINGTON, DC, October 20, 2020 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to rule on whether the Trump administration must stop building sections of the southern border wall [...]
Health
COVID Virus Lives 28 Days on Money, Cellphone Screens
GEELONG, Victoria, Australia, October 13, 2020 (ENS) – The virus responsible for COVID-19 can survive for up to 28 days on common surfaces including banknotes, glass items such as [...]
Gov/Politics
Back at White House, Infected Trump Tears Off His Mask
WASHINGTON, DC, October 5, 2020 (ENS) – President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday evening aboard his helicopter just before seven, and his first actions alarmed health [...]
Gov/Politics
India Halts Amnesty International’s Human Rights Work
NEW DELHI, India, October 5, 2020 (ENS) – The freezing of Amnesty International India’s bank accounts by the Government of India on September 10 has brought all the work [...]
Gov/Politics
President Trump Hospitalized for COVID-19 Treatment
WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2020 (ENS) – President Donald Trump is in a military hospital under treatment for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. A statement from [...]