Year: 2024

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At Risk

$60 Million Starts Salvage of Baltimore’s Broken Bridge

March 31, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on $60 Million Starts Salvage of Baltimore’s Broken Bridge

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. […]

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Energy

Earth Hour Evolves Into the Biggest Hour for Earth

March 21, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on Earth Hour Evolves Into the Biggest Hour for Earth

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. […]

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Latest News

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

March 16, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on River Protectors Warn Banks as to Central Asia’s Biggest Dam

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. […]

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Food

Slow Food Movement Grows Where Women’s Rights Are Strong

March 8, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on Slow Food Movement Grows Where Women’s Rights Are Strong

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. […]

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RSS

International Women’s Month: In Afghanistan Oppression Grows

March 8, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on International Women’s Month: In Afghanistan Oppression Grows

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. […]

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Gov/Politics

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

March 8, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on Biden’s State of the Union Climate Points Short But Crucial

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. […]

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Latest News

Modern Alchemist Profitably Extracts Gold From E-Waste

March 6, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on Modern Alchemist Profitably Extracts Gold From E-Waste

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. […]

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At Risk

UK Ship Sunk By Houthis Leaking Oil, Could Spill Fertilizer

March 2, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on UK Ship Sunk By Houthis Leaking Oil, Could Spill Fertilizer

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. […]

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Air/Climate

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

March 1, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on UN Leader: ‘Our Climate is Imploding, Humanity Is to Blame’

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. […]

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At Risk

Tobago Oil Spill Spreads Across Southeastern Caribbean Sea

February 16, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on Tobago Oil Spill Spreads Across Southeastern Caribbean Sea

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 16, 2024 (ENS) – At least two vessels were involved in an incident that is spilling gobs of black crude oil across a widening area of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of South America. Emanating from a capsized barge off Tobago’s southwest coast, the oil has fouled some of the pristine beaches that attract so many tourists to the tropical island, the country’s Coast Guard has confirmed. […]

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Health

First Drug to Treat Severe Frostbite Approved in U.S.

February 15, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on First Drug to Treat Severe Frostbite Approved in U.S.

WASHINGTON, DC, February 15, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug – an injection to treat severe frostbite in adults that reduces the risk of finger or toe, nose or ear amputation. The iloprost injection, marketed under the brand name Aurlumyn, is a vasodilator, a drug that opens blood vessels and prevents blood clotting. […]

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Latest News

Inaugural World Lidar Day Honors Remote Sensing Technology

February 14, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on Inaugural World Lidar Day Honors Remote Sensing Technology

DENVER, Colorado, February 14, 2024 (ENS) – It’s Geo Week in Denver, where one of the world’s largest geospatial conferences is underway. As part of the gathering, on February 12, a group of Lidar enthusiasts celebrated the first World Lidar Day, marking this date as an annual celebration of the expanding world enabled by Light Detection and Ranging, LIDAR. […]