March, 2024 | Environment News Service (ENS)

$60 Million Starts Salvage of Baltimore’s Broken Bridge

March 31, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 2, 2024 (ENS) – The tugboat Crystal Coast pushing a fuel barge, sailed through the temporary alternate channel created by the Key Bridge Response Unified Command, at 3 pm Monday afternoon. It was the first vessel to use the channel since the Francis Scott Key Bridge, struck by a container ship, collapsed into the Patapsco River on March 26, killing six workmen, severing road and shipping transport across the river, and closing the busy Port of Baltimore. […]

Water Scarcity Eroding World Peace, United Nations Warns

March 24, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) – Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water to mark World Water Day. […]

CALIFORNIA: Chevron Fined Record $13M for Ongoing Oil Spills

March 22, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

SACRAMENTO, California, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Oil giant Chevron has agreed to pay a record-breaking $13 million in settlement agreements to two California state resource agencies for oil spills […]

New EPA Emissions Rule Expands Automakers’ Time to Electrify

March 21, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Final national pollution standards for passenger cars, light- and medium-duty vehicles for upcoming model years 2027 through 2032 were set this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency following an 11-month public consultation process. […]

Earth Hour Evolves Into the Biggest Hour for Earth

March 21, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

SINGAPORE, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Across the world, people by the millions will be turning off their lights – going dark for one hour on Saturday, March 23, starting at 8:30 in the evening local time – to give the planet a rest. It’s Earth Hour, a global movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund, WWF, that has attracted more participants year by year since the first Earth Hour in March 2007. […]

River Protectors Warn Banks as to Central Asia’s Biggest Dam

March 16, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

OAKLAND, California, March 15, 2024 (ENS) – Monday was the 27th International Day of Action for Rivers, a day when all across the world rivers were cleaned, dams were protested, webinars and classes were taught, adventures were had, and ecosystems were protected by people across six continents with at least one thing in common – a shared love for the world’s rivers. […]

HAWAII: Habitat Protected for 11 Rare Plants, One Unique Fly

March 12, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

HONOLULU, Hawai’i, March 12, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a Hawaiian picture-wing fly found […]

Slow Food Movement Grows Where Women’s Rights Are Strong

March 8, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

BRA, Italy, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – “Inspire Inclusion” is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. Celebrated annually on March 8, which this year falls on Friday, organizers are exploring the connection between nutritious, healthy food and the work of women in the growing, harvesting, cooking, and serving of that food. […]

International Women’s Month: In Afghanistan Oppression Grows

March 8, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

KABUL, Afghanistan, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – On this International Women’s Day, few women are on the streets of Afghan’s capital city, Kabul, and those that are out are with a male relative and covered from head to toe, according to the strict and strictly enforced rules of the Taliban government. […]

Biden’s State of the Union Climate Points Short But Crucial

March 8, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – President Joe Biden entered the House of Representatives Thursday night to deliver the final State of the Union address for this term with a brilliant smile and a long list of accomplishments to promote. The environment was barely there, mentioned just twice, but Biden’s two comments were strong. […]

Modern Alchemist Profitably Extracts Gold From E-Waste

March 6, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

ZURICH, Switzerland, March 6, 2024 (ENS) – Transforming base materials into gold was one of the unachieved aims of ancient alchemists. But now Professor Raffaele Mezzenga from the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at the research university ETH Zurich has discovered how to recover gold from the base materials in discarded electronics using a byproduct of cheesemaking. […]

NEW YORK: Two Dead: Raw Milk Cheese Producer Pleads Guilty

March 5, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

SYRACUSE, New York, March 5, 2024 (ENS) – A former raw milk cheese manufacturer and the company he owned and managed pleaded guilty today to charges regarding cheese that was […]

UK Ship Sunk By Houthis Leaking Oil, Could Spill Fertilizer

March 2, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

ADEN, Yemen, March 2, 2024 (ENS) – The UK-owned cargo ship Rubymar, attacked by Houthi militants in mid-February, finally sank in the Red Sea Friday night off the coast of Yemen in rough, stormy seas. The internationally recognized government of this small, war-wracked country warned Saturday that an “environmental catastrophe” could result if the ship’s cargo of fertilizer is lost into the sea. […]

UN Leader: ‘Our Climate is Imploding, Humanity Is to Blame’

March 1, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 1, 2024 (ENS) – On the final day of the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly, UNEA-6, there was a supercharged mood on the UNEP campus, only hours after delegates left the venue feeling deflated after work on draft resolutions was not finalized as scheduled earlier in the week. […]