BEIJING, China, February 12, 2022 (ENS) – The endangered animals and plants protected by the global treaty known as CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, now have another layer of protection. It comes in the form of attention from the international police force Interpol, which is backing CITES in the enforcement of its regulations. […]
PHOENIX, Arizona, February 11, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s two largest mining companies are pressing their proposal to mine for copper beneath a site most sacred to the San Carlos […]
DUNKIRK, France, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal is decarbonizing its factories in France and has attracted the financial support of the French Government to accomplish a drop of 40 percent a year in the company’s CO2 emissions in France by 2030. […]
By Benjamin Seidman CHESAPEAKE BAY, Maryland, February 11, 2022 (ENS) – In the eternal struggle between the ebb and flow of tides, high tides now have the upper hand as […]
OAKLAND, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Today, a federal judge in California overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s November 2020 decision to delist wolves from the Endangered Species […]
CONCORD, New Hampshire, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has joined the New Hampshire Brewers Association to open a new program honoring environmental leaders […]
LOS ANGELES, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Los Angeles and Shanghai have initiated a partnership of cities, ports, shipping companies, and cargo owners in China and the United States to create a first-of-its-kind green shipping corridor across the Pacific Ocean on one of the world’s busiest container shipping routes. […]
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, February 7, 2022 (ENS) – “From shorter winter ice seasons to shifting fish populations, climate change is transforming Minnesota lakes as we know them,” the Minnesota Pollution […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – The highest glacier on Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, “may already be a relic from an older, colder, time,” says the scientist […]
AUSTIN, Texas, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, has decided it is “unnecessary” to deploy agency personnel “to conduct prolonged handheld air quality and […]
BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a storm surge that sweeps more than 21 million tons of toxic coal ash from a power plant into the Mobile River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. […]
DETROIT, Michigan, February 5, 2022 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced a formal determination that the Detroit area did not attain the sulfur dioxide air quality […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – A beach in eastern Thailand was declared a disaster-hit area on Saturday as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand continued to wash up onto the coast and blacken the sand. […]
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, February 4, 2022 (ENS) – Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has charged ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer, with nine counts of environmental crimes […]
QUITO, Ecuador, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – An oil spill has contaminated a protected area of rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon and polluted the Coca River that supplies water to Indigenous communities, says Ecuador’s environment ministry. […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – The floating production, storage and offloading vessel Trinity Spirit exploded and sank early Wednesday morning at the Ukpokiti Terminal, around Excravos, Warri South-west, in Nigeria’s Delta State, close to the River Niger Delta. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, February 2, 2022 (ENS) – In 2020 wildfires destroyed 30 percent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland extending across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 […]
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