Month: November 2023

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RSS

UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund

November 30, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023 (ENS) – “This year’s climate conference comes as the crisis enters a new phase – and shows its full force, harming billions of people, and costing trillions,” UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell declared in a video message to the world Wednesday on the eve of the UN climate summit COP28. He detailed progress and setbacks in the year since COP27 in Egypt, and set out expectations for COP28, which opened today and runs through December 12 in the gleaming, high-rise city of Dubai. […]

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Land Use/Forests

Climate Heating Consumes Europe’s Forests: Facts Fall Short

November 25, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Heating Consumes Europe’s Forests: Facts Fall Short

BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 25, 2023 (ENS) – The European Commission has proposed the EU’s first Forest Monitoring Law to plug existing gaps in information about European forests. It is expected to create a comprehensive forest knowledge base so that forest owners and managers can improve their responses to growing pressures on forests and strengthen forest resilience. […]

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Health

Air Pollution Exposure in Utero Disrupts Human Reproduction

November 15, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Air Pollution Exposure in Utero Disrupts Human Reproduction

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – From black puffs of diesel exhaust to the sun-blocking haze of orange wildfire smoke, air pollution is known to damage respiratory health. Now, research from Rutgers and four other American universities finds that polluted air can harm human reproductive health. […]

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Energy

U.S. Offshore Wind Power Development in Turmoil

November 15, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Offshore Wind Power Development in Turmoil

RICHMOND, Virginia, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the European supplier that leads the global market for offshore wind turbines, has suspended plans to build a US$200 million turbine blade factory at Virginia’s Portsmouth Marine Terminal, a major container port. […]

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Food

Feeling Depressed? Put Down Those Ultra-processed Foods

November 13, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Feeling Depressed? Put Down Those Ultra-processed Foods

BOSTON, Massachusetts, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Everybody knows what ultraprocessed foods are – sweet snacks, ready-to-eat meals, fats and sauces, ice cream, savory snacks, cookies and chips, ham, sausages, artificial sweeteners. They can tickle the tastebuds, but new research links them with depression. […]

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At Risk

Gaza Hospitals Destroyed as WHO, Ambassadors Urge Ceasefire

November 10, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Gaza Hospitals Destroyed as WHO, Ambassadors Urge Ceasefire

NEW YORK, New York, November 10, 2023 (ENS) – World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today briefed an Emergency Meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the health situation in Gaza, as Israeli forces attacked hospitals, forcing thousands of civilians sheltering there to flee. […]