At Risk
Tarry Oil From Unknown Source Fouls Israeli Beaches
TEL AVIV, Israel, February 28, 2021 (ENS) – The level of tarry pollution on Israel’s Rosh Hanikra Beach near the Lebanese border is now rated medium-heavy, after new lumps [...]
Month: February 2021
Latest News
Puerto Rican Jailed for Trafficking Protected Corals
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, February 25, 2021 (ENS) – A Puerto Rican man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for felonies involving the [...]
Air/Climate
Russian Tanker First to Sail Arctic Sea Route in Winter
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, February 22, 2021 (ENS) – The Arctic’s icy Northern Sea Route is melting, allowing the Russian icebreaking LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie to complete her experimental [...]
Air/Climate
America Rejoins World Accord to Limit Climate Crisis
NEW YORK, New York, February 21, 2021 (ENS) – The community of nations welcomed the United States back into the Paris Climate Accord on Friday with the approval of [...]
Air/Climate
Dow Chemical Fined Millions for Illegal Flaring
HAHNVILLE, Louisiana, February 18, 2021 (ENS) – Thousands of tons of air pollution emitted in flares by four manufacturing facilities in Texas and Louisiana will be reduced under a [...]
Air/Climate
Changing Climate Top Threat to Natural World Heritage
GLAND, Switzerland, February 17, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is now the biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites with their incomparable landscapes, rare ecological processes, critical habitat and exceptional [...]
Land Use/Forests
Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes
LYON, France, February 16, 2021 (ENS) – A decade of forestry crime operations, fighting the looting of natural resources such as timber and charcoal in some of the world’s [...]
Energy
Texas Oil Co Fined Millions for Fouling Wyoming Waters
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, February 15, 2021 (ENS) – A settlement has been reached between the U.S. government and the oil and gas company Fleur de Lis Energy, which has agreed to [...]
At Risk
Blowing Snow, Ice Storms Paralyze Much of United States
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, February 13, 2021 (ENS) – More than 100 million Americans are currently under Winter Storm Warnings, Winter Storm Watches, or Winter Weather Advisories as coast-to-coast stormy winter [...]
Health
Silica-Silver Plastic Film Kills Coronavirus on Contact
SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 13, 2021 (ENS) – A plastic film that can deactivate 99.99 percent of the virus that causes COVID-19 in 15 minutes has been released by [...]
Gov/Politics
Biden Lifts Emergency on U.S.-Mexico Border, Stops Wall
WASHINGTON, DC, February 11, 2021 (ENS) – A national emergency no longer exists at the U.S. southern border with Mexico; it has been terminated after nearly two years. On [...]
Air/Climate
Youth Climate Case Headed for U.S. Supreme Court
EUGENE, Oregon, February 10, 2021 (ENS) – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, without explanation, today denied the request of 21 young people to have a full panel of [...]
Health
Dreams During Pandemic Reveal Fear, Mental Suffering
SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 10, 2021 (ENS) – Amid the isolation imposed by COVID-19, the brain resorts to dreams in an effort to metabolize the intense emotions experienced during [...]
Land Use/Forests
Paradise Closing: Oil Drilling Begins in Okavango Delta
WINDHOEK, Namibia, February 1, 2021 (ENS) – The fate of one of Africa’s most valuable ecosystems will depend on results from wells being drilled deep into the bedrock beneath [...]