Business
U.S. Stock Market Regulators Embroiled in Climate Debate
WASHINGTON, DC, August 28, 2023 (ENS) – No doubt about it – the Earth is getting hotter. In the scorching month of July, when temperatures soared above any other month [...]
Month: August 2023
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Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric for Sparking Deadly Fires
KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, August 25, 2023 (ENS) – Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Maui Electric Co., Thursday, alleging civil damages from the deadly August [...]
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Biden’s Maui Prayer: May He Hold You in the Palm of His Hand
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Governor Josh Green, M.D., and First Lady Jaime Kanani Green accompanied President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Maui Mayor Richard [...]
Air/Climate
Biased Data Yield Flawed AI Weather Forecasts for Global South
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Biased data being fed into artificial intelligence tools are producing unreliable weather predictions, climate and AI researchers are warning. They say developing countries [...]
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Maui Fires Claim 106 Lives, Search Continues Recovery Begins
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 16, 2023 (ENS) – At least 106 people have died in the flames that consumed the historic town of Lahaina and other parts of Maui, and [...]
AmeriScan
NEW MEXICO: Mewbourne Oil Spends $10M to Meet Clean Air Regs
TYLER, Texas, August 16, 2023 (ENS) – An independent oil and gas producer in the Permian Basin, a shale oil and gas producing area in southeast New Mexico and West [...]
Land Use/Forests
Amazon Accord Elusive, But Leadership Summit Generates Hope
By Benjamin Seidman
BELEM, Brazil, August 11, 2023, (ENS) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week hosted a two-day regional summit of the eight Amazon River basin [...]
RSS
New Monument Protects Sacred Native Lands Near Grand Canyon
TUSAYAN, Arizona, August 10, 2023, (ENS) – President Joe Biden has established a new national monument to protect three areas close to Grand Canyon National Park that the President said, [...]
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Maui Wildfire Death Toll Hits 93, Lahaina Devastated
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 13, 2023 (ENS) – Hawaii Governor Josh Green and Maui County officials said today that the fire death toll from this week’s wildfires in the historic [...]
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Kruger Park Lions Being Poisoned by Poachers for Body Parts
By Ed Stoddard
PRETORIA, South Africa, August 6, 2023 (ENS) – South African National Parks has confirmed that lions have been targeted in a poisoning campaign in northern Kruger Park [...]
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Nuclear Experts Probe Russian Threat to Ukranian Power Plant
VIENNA, Austria, August 4, 2023 (ENS) – Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency breathed a sigh of relief when they observed no explosives on the rooftops of nuclear reactor [...]
Energy
Renewables Share of U.S. Generating Capacity Sets Records
WASHINGTON, DC, August 1, 2023 (ENS) – “The mix of solar, wind and other renewables is now comfortably out-producing both coal and nuclear power,” concludes Ken Bossong, executive director of [...]