June, 2023 | Environment News Service (ENS)

Tasting the Future: Chicken Meals That No Chicken Died For

June 23, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 23, 2023 (ENS) – Two California companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, the cultivated meat division of food technology company Eat Just, Inc., have received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for their cultivated chicken, to enter interstate commerce. This clearance, granted Wednesday, means that cultivated chicken, made directly from animal cells, can now be sold to American consumers. […]

Biden Restores Some of the Species Protections Axed by Trump

June 22, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, July 22, 2023 (ENS) – As the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to restore protections for species, strengthen consultation and listing processes, and reaffirm the central role science plays in decisions that guide the protection and recovery of endangered and threatened wildlife. […]

Bloody South African Wildlife Cull Stopped After 900 Deaths

June 19, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

PRETORIA, South Africa, June 15, 23 (ENS) – A trustee of the Mawana Family Trust, whose conservationist husband was killed by elephants from the Mawana Game Reserve in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, tried to have 3,600 of its wild animals culled “to get some cash flow going.” By the time the cull was stopped nearly 900 animals were dead. […]

New UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Protect Forests, Water, Wildlife

June 16, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

PARIS, France, June 16, 2023 (ENS) – UNESCO has approved the designation of 10 new biosphere reserves in nine countries, and one transboundary biosphere reserve that stretches across the border between two countries. […]

Climate Activists Block Departure of Rotterdam Cruise Ship

June 14, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

day blocked the departure of the Holland America Lines cruise ship “Zuiderdam” from the port of Rotterdam. The protesters detained the ship by closing off access to the mooring bollards, the tie-up points for mooring lines that anchor vessels safely at their docks. […]

Dam Collapse Puts Europe’s Largest Nuclear Plant in Jeopardy

June 13, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

KYIV, Ukraine, June 13, 2023 (ENS) – Experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency are seeking access to a location near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, ZNPP, to clarify the reason for a gap between different measurements of the water level in the reservoir supplying water to cool the facility’s six reactors and spent fuel storage. […]

TEXAS: Houston to Stop Illegal Dumping on Black, Latino Areas

June 9, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, June 9, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department has secured a settlement agreement in its environmental justice investigation into the City of Houston’s response to illegal dumping […]

World Bank: Global Economy Risky Amid High Interest Rates

June 9, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, June 9, 2023 (ENS) – Global economic growth has slowed, and the risk of financial stress in emerging market and developing economies, known as EMDEs, is intensifying, hemmed in by high global interest rates, according to the World Bank’s latest “Global Economic Prospects” report, issued Tuesday. […]