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Global Biodiversity Framework Protects 30% of Planet by 2030
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, December 20, 2022 (ENS) – The first global agreement to protect at least 30 percent of global lands and waters by 2030 was reached Monday by 196 [...]
Year: 2022
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ALABAMA: Seven Sentenced, Ending Giant U.S. Cockfighting Biz
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, December 15, 2022 (ENS) – In connection with one of the biggest cockfighting and breeding businesses in the United States, a seventh and final Verbena, Alabama resident was [...]
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ARIZONA: Free PFAS Foam Disposal Cuts Firefighters’ Cancer Risk
PHOENIX, Arizona, December 15, 2022 (ENS) – The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, ADEQ, has launched a free of charge “take-back and replace” pilot program to help select fire departments [...]
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Ocean Species Suffer as Nations at COP15 Confront Extinctions
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2022 (ENS) – Today’s update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species exposes the many threats wiping out marine species – illegal and unsustainable [...]
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Earth’s Biodiversity Crisis Activates Governments, Police
LYON, France, December 7, 2022 (ENS) – A wildlife and timber trading law enforcement crackdown by the international police force Interpol and the World Customs Organization has yielded more than [...]
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First WMO Global Water Analysis Finds a Drying World
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 29, 2022 (ENS) – Most of the planet was drier than normal in 2021, with “cascading effects on economies, ecosystems and our daily lives,” the UN World [...]
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UTAH: Save Monuments, Conservation Groups, Tribes Ask Court
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, November 28, 2022 (ENS) – Conservation groups have filed a motion to intervene in two lawsuits challenging President Joe Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears and Grand [...]
Air/Climate
COP27: Rich to Fund Climate Loss/Damage for Poorer Countries
SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 20, 2022 (ENS) – The UN Climate Change Conference COP27 closed today in Egypt with a breakthrough agreement to provide “loss and damage” funding for vulnerable [...]
Air/Climate
COP27 Spills Into Overtime Amid Human Rights Protests
SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 18, 2022 (ENS) – Climate activists and members of civil society have been intimidated, harassed and kept under surveillance during the United Nations COP27 climate summit [...]
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NEW YORK: Long Island to Host Offshore Wind Training Center
ALBANY, New York, November 14, 2022 (ENS) – A land transfer between New York State and Suffolk County late last month will bring a National Offshore Wind Training Center to [...]
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EU Moving to Stricter Euro 7 Vehicle Emission Standards
BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 13, 2022 (ENS) – Reducing emissions from new motor vehicles sold in the EU to meet the European Green Deal’s zero-pollution goal, while keeping vehicles affordable for [...]
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OHIO: Cleveland Suburbs Must End Sewer Overflows to Lake Erie
ELYRIA, Ohio, November 10, 2022 (ENS) – The city of Elyria, a suburb of Cleveland, Wednesday agreed to complete a series of capital projects to eliminate discharges of untreated sewage [...]
Air/Climate
COP27: Humanity ‘On the Highway to Climate Hell’
SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 7, 2022 (ENS) – “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the High-Level [...]
Air/Climate
Climate Activists Stage Sit-Ins, Glue-Ins Ahead of COP27
SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 5, 2022 (ENS) – People who care about global warming are focusing in on the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the United Nations’ [...]
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Ukraine Faces Power, Water, Food Shortages as Winter Looms
KYIV, Ukraine, November 3, 2022 (ENS) – Continuing attacks by Russian forces against Ukraine’s essential civilian infrastructure are disrupting access to key services. Power and water supply systems have sustained [...]
Gov/Politics
Europe Evaluates New Rules for Cleaner Air, Water
BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 27, 2022 (ENS) – The European Commission Wednesday proposed stronger rules on ambient air, surface and groundwater pollutants, and the treatment of urban wastewater.
All the new [...]
Air/Climate
Caution! Climate Work in Progress
BONN, Germany, October 27, 2022 (ENS) – Countries’ climate promises fall far short of avoiding catastrophic global warming, the United Nations’ climate agency warned Wednesday in a new analysis ahead [...]
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On Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary U.S. Invests $50 Billion
WASHINGTON, DC, October 18, 2022 (ENS) – Fifty years ago today the Clean Water Act of 1972 became law, requiring America to protect and restore the crucial waterways that must [...]
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Living Planet Report 2022 Shows Wildlife Species Dying Out
WASHINGTON, DC, October 14, 2022 (ENS) – “The roar of the jaguar could be heard near the community three years ago, but not anymore. Compared with my childhood, I’ve witnessed [...]
Land Use/Forests
Biden Rouses Tribal Protests With 1st Monument Designation
LEADVILLE, Colorado, October 14, 2022 (ENS) – President Joe Biden established the first new national monument of his presidency on Wednesday – the 53,800-acre Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in [...]