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Month: February 2021

At Risk

Tarry Oil From Unknown Source Fouls Israeli Beaches

February 28, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Puerto Rican Jailed for Trafficking Protected Corals

February 25, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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

February 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Air/Climate

America Rejoins World Accord to Limit Climate Crisis

February 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Air/Climate

Dow Chemical Fined Millions for Illegal Flaring

February 18, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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

February 17, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes

February 16, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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

February 15, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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

February 13, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Health

Silica-Silver Plastic Film Kills Coronavirus on Contact

February 13, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Gov/Politics

Biden Lifts Emergency on U.S.-Mexico Border, Stops Wall

February 11, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Air/Climate

Youth Climate Case Headed for U.S. Supreme Court

February 10, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Health

Dreams During Pandemic Reveal Fear, Mental Suffering

February 10, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Paradise Closing: Oil Drilling Begins in Okavango Delta

February 1, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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