NORWICH, England, UK, December 12, 2025 (ENS) – As the planet heats up, a population of polar bears living in southeastern Greenland appear to be adjusting to their warmer environment, […]
BOSTON Massachusetts, December 12, 2025 (ENS) – Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and a coalition of 20 states Thursday won their lawsuit against the Trump administration over its unlawful attempt to shut down an existing federal program that protects communities from natural disasters before they strike. […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, December 11, 2025 (ENS) – Sub-Saharan Africa has lost 24 percent of its biodiversity since pre-industrial times, and large mammals have declined the most, finds new research from the 108-year-old School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, APES, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, a multi-campus public research university known as Wits University or simply, Wits. […]
BELEM, Brazil, December 10, 2025 (ENS) – This year’s annual United Nations’ 2025 Climate Change Conference, COP 30, convened exactly one month ago in the Brazilian city of Belém as political tensions around the world hit new levels, and planetary temperatures spiked. The year 2024 was the warmest on record at 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels. […]
LYON, France, November 5, 2025 (ENS) – In a blow to criminal organizations along South America’s Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges used in illegal gold extraction worth an estimated US$6.8 million. […]
FRANKFORT, Kentucky, November 2, 2025 (ENS) – In Kentucky, a second wild deer has been confirmed with chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurologic disease that infects deer, elk and moose. […]
EUGENE, Oregon, October 31, 2025 (ENS) – The Upper Willamette Soil & Water Conservation District is planning to acquire a 200+ acre hazelnut orchard located on the lower McKenzie River to protect the drinking water of Eugene, a college city of 178,150 people that hosts the University of Oregon. […]
DEARBORN, Michigan, October 31, 2025 (ENS) – General Motors has announced that in 2028 the company will introduce a centralized vehicle computing platform serving both its electric and gas powered vehicles. The move is a pivot for the company, which was poised to ramp up electric vehicle production until President Donald Trump discontinued federal $7,500 subsidies for EV buyers on September 1. […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 30, 2025 (ENS) – The death toll from catastrophic Hurricane Melissa rose to at least 36 across Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba today as residents of these island nations begin to dig themselves out from under the wreckage left by the second strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Caribbean Sea. […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 28, 2025 (ENS) – The eye of the “extremely dangerous” Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is approaching western Jamaica at this moment, menacing the Caribbean island nation with catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and storm surge, warn the Meteorological Service of Jamaica and the U.S. National Hurricane Center. […]
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Montana, October 27, 2025 (ENS) – Glacier National Park remains open to visitors during the current federal government shutdown, which a former superintendent said could lead to trash pileup, a lack of communication for visitors, and limited emergency response operations. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 21, 2025 (ENS) – The State of Massachusetts and the State of California have announced their intentions to join the nonprofit International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN. Based in Switzerland, the IUCN is the world’s largest and most diverse environmental membership network with 1,400 governments and non-governmental organizations committed to global action on biodiversity conservation. […]
EXETER, England, October 13, 2025 (ENS) – “The world has entered a new reality. Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°Celsius.” Warm-water coral reefs are dying across the planet as the world hits its first climate tipping point, finds a new report released today by the University of Exeter and dozens of international partners. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2025 (ENS) – On July 8, Congressman Nick Begich III, an Alaska Republican, introduced a draft bill amending the Marine Mammal Protection Act, MMPA, the federal law that has governed marine resource management and conservation of whales, orcas, porpoises, seals, polar bears, walruses, sea otters, and manatees in U.S. waters since 1972. […]
SALEM, Oregon, October 10, 2025 (ENS) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek this week signed an Executive Order accelerating renewable wind and solar project development in the state before time runs out on federal clean energy tax credits. Tax credits now on the table that are set to expire on July 4, 2026 can fund between 30 and 50 percent of most solar and wind projects, the governor said. […]
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, October 9, 2025 (ENS) – The world’s foremost international event centered on conserving nature opened today in Abu Dhabi. Held every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is convened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a nonprofit based near Geneva, Switzerland that tracks species survival on the IUCN Red List. […]
ROSELAND, Louisiana, October 9, 2025 (ENS) – On August 22, an explosion erupted at Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant manufacturing facility in Roseland, a town about 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge. The blaze swept through the 15-acre complex that housed half a million gallons of flammable materials. […]
WOOD-RIDGE, New Jersey, October 8, 2025 (ENS) – Decades of contamination with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl, known as PCB, are now on track to be cleaned up at the Berry’s Creek Study Area adjacent to Wood-Ridge in the Meadowlands of northeastern New Jersey, just 13 miles from New York City. […]
LOS ANGELES, California, October 1, 2025 (ENS) – Dr. Jane Goodall, famed chimpanzee scientist, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, died of natural causes Wednesday at the age of 91. Dr. Goodall died peacefully in her sleep while in Los Angeles for her speaking tour in the United States. She was considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees… […]
DILLARD, Oregon, September 25, 2025 (ENS) – An era in Oregon forest products is coming to an end. Roseburg Forest Products, a private company founded in 1936, has ceased operations […]
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