Texas national monument
Land Use/Forests

Biden Guards ‘Breathtaking’ Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments

WASHINGTON, DC, March 26, 2023 (ENS) – At the White House Conservation in Action Summit Tuesday, President Joe Biden established two new national monuments, one in Nevada and one in Texas, protecting over half a million acres of public lands in honor of both Tribal Nations and military veterans. […]

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Latest News

Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, March 28 (ENS) – Yet another suspected poacher has died in a hail of bullets fired by unknown gunmen in the eastern province of Mpumalanga’s landscape of fear. Clyde Mnisi, Chief of the Mnisi Tribal Authority, trailing charges of murder, money laundering, illegal sale of rhino horn and racketeering, died of multiple bullet wounds near Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport late Sunday night. […]

Zelensky, Grossi
At Risk

Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons

VIENNA, Austria, March 27, 2023 (ENS) – International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday to plan protection for the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, as the Kremlin made plans to move nuclear weapons closer by stationing them in neighboring Belarus. […]

Cyclone Freddy damage
At Risk

Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579

BLANTYRE, Malawi, March 21, 2023 (ENS) – Tropical Cyclone Freddy is a record-breaking storm that has astonished meteorologists with its longevity. As part of its final act, the cyclone unleashed destructive floods and landslides on the southern African countries of Malawi and Mozambique and the island nation of Madagascar off Africa’s southeastern coast. […]

sunset wind farm Nova Scotia
Air/Climate

IPCC: Liveable Future Possible If We Defuse Climate Time-Bomb

INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 20, 2023 (ENS) – Global temperatures have already risen to 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels, as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use. More frequent and intense extreme weather events have caused dangerous impacts on nature and people in every region of the world, finds a major new UN report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. […]

ConocoPhillips Alaska
Energy

Conservationists Sue to Stop ConocoPhillips Alaska Oil Venture

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 16, 2023 (ENS) – Warning that the U.S. government’s environmental review fails to account for the full climate impact of oil development in Alaska, five of America’s largest conservation groups have filed a lawsuit to stop ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska, which the Biden Administration approved Monday. […]

Michael Regan
Latest News

Biden Proposes National Standard for PFAS in Drinking Water

WASHINGTON, DC, March 14, 2023 (ENS) – The today proposed the first national drinking water standard for six harmful “forever chemicals” in the latest action under President Joe Biden’s plan to combat PFAS pollution and EPA Administrator Michael Regan’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap. […]

Senate hearing room
Gov/Politics

Freight Train Derailment Politics

WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw apologized today during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for the February derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, just a mile from the Pennsylvania border. […]

snow California
At Risk

Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency

SACRAMENTO, California, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Knowing that a series of storms are forecast to continue blowing across California through mid-March, and an atmospheric river event is predicted for later this week, Governor Gavin Newsom Wednesday proclaimed a state of emergency to support storm response and relief efforts in 21 additional counties including San Francisco. […]

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RSS

All Is Not Lost: Pioneering Restorations of the Natural World

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 1, 2023 (ENS) – For the first time, the United Nations has recognized 10 trail-blazing efforts from across the globe that are restoring the natural world. Declared World Restoration Flagships, these 10 initiatives can now receive UN-backed advice, promotion, and funding in support of their work to prevent and reverse the degradation of natural spaces. […]