WASHINGTON, DC, September 13, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change could force 216 million people across six world regions to move within their countries by 2050, finds a new report by the World Bank, released today. […]
UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland, September 10, 2021 (ENS) – For more than a week, five zebras have been been wandering freely through the roads and residential neighborhoods of Prince George’s County, […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 9, 2021 (ENS) – The European Commission has adopted an independently evaluated Green Bond framework, taking a step towards the issuance of up to €250 billion green bonds, or 30 percent of NextGenerationEU’s total issuance. […]
MARSEILLE, France, September 9, 2021 (ENS) – The IUCN World Conservation Congress amplified its environmental decision-making on Wednesday by introducing a plan to develop a collaborative certification system for Nature-based Solutions, NbS. The IUCN would coordinate existing sustainability certification programs… […]
OLYMPIA, Washington, September 8, 2021 (ENS) – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it wants to add Bradford Island at Bonneville Dam to the National Priorities List, known as […]
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, September 8, 2021 (ENS) – By the slimmest of margins, one vote, a Pennsylvania state commission has authorized a rule empowering the state to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI, a cooperative, market-based “cap and invest” program […]
BETHESDA, Maryland, September 7, 2021 (ENS) – At the end of last year, you may recall hearing news reports that the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States had topped 20 million. While that number came as truly sobering news, it also likely was an underestimate. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2021 (ENS) – At least 66 people across nine U.S. states have died due to Ida in her various phases from Category 4 hurricane when it struck Louisiana on August 29 to tropical depression blowing out into the Atlantic Ocean east of New England on September 2 . […]
BERLIN, Germany, September 2, 2021 (ENS) – The tools to forecast, detect and assess epidemic and pandemic risks are on offer from a new central intelligence collection and sharing hub established in Berlin by the World Health Organization this week. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 31, 2021 (ENS) – A federal judge in Arizona Monday overturned the Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule, more commonly known as the Dirty Water Rule, in a […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 31, 2021 (ENS) – Electric vehicles are on their way to widespread acceptance, but as of June 2021, cumulative sales in the United States totaled just 1.98 million highway legal plug-in electric cars since 2010. Meanwhile, many U.S. drivers prefer diesel, be it clean – or not. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 30, 2021 (ENS) – Precisely 16 years after devastating Hurricane Katrina made landfall, another major hurricane hit southern Louisiana around noon on Sunday. Hurricane Ida came ashore at Port Fourchon with sustained winds of 150 miles (240 km) per hour. […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil, August 27, 2021 (ENS) – Brazil has lost 15 percent of its surface water in the past 30 years, finds a comprehensive analysis published on the new MapBiomas Water Platform. The extent of this water loss is so disturbing in a warming world that the global conservation organization WWF calls the report “alarming” and “shocking.” […]
HARTFORD, Connecticut, August 27, 2021 (ENS) – Connecticut is facing a solid waste disposal crisis, and increasing the amount of recycled material is one of the ways state authorities believe […]
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, August 27, 2021 (ENS) – The State of Alabama has agreed to a $3 million settlement with Tyson Farms, Inc., the world’s second largest processor and marketer of […]
NEW YORK, New York, August 26, 2021 (ENS) – Community groups from across the United States, together with the California’s Santa Clara County, have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling on the EPA to regulate lead pollution from private aircraft, the largest remaining source of lead emissions in the country. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 23, 2021 (ENS) – More than 12 million people in Syria and Iraq are losing access to water, food and electricity and urgent action is needed to combat a severe water crisis, 13 aid groups working in the region warned today. […]
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, August 22, 2021 (ENS) – The Port of Corpus Christi Authority and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC have executed an agreement to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services […]
MIAMI, Florida, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Hurricane Hunter Aircraft from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force Reserve flying into the midst of what is now Tropical Storm Henri off the coast of North Carolina report maximum sustained winds near 70 mph (110 km/h) with higher gusts. […]
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Wednesday released a drinking water supply plan for the 14 communities […]
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