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 […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 25, 2025 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is hosting a climate summit at the UN’s New York headquarters this week. The high-level week of the UN General Assembly is in full swing, and he is using the event to convince governments to elevate the level of ambition in their national climate pledges […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 18, 2025 (ENS) – The European Commission has presented its proposal to the European Council to suspend billions of euros in its trade-related provisions of the Association Agreement between the EU and Israel, as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen previewed in her State of the Union address on September 10. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2025 ENS – The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a complex system that serves both national and international reporting requirements to mitigate climate change, is being dismantled by the Trump administration. […]
“Forty years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer – guided by science, united in action,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today, in honor of the day in March 1985 when 28 nations agreed on the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the parent treaty behind the Montreal Protocol. […]
DENVER, Colorado, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Environmental justice and conservation groups today sounded the alarm over a backroom deal to avoid enforcement of key water permit provisions that was forged between the State of Colorado and the Suncor Energy – Commerce City Refinery, a petroleum refining facility in Commerce City, just northeast of Denver. […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have found a way to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable capture of the most abundant greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2 – addressing two major global challenges simultaneously – plastic pollution and the climate crisis. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 20, 2025 (ENS) – The High Seas Treaty has reached the 60 state ratifications needed to trigger its entry into force. Four governments this week ratified the legally-binding treaty at the United Nations – Sri Lanka, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sierra Leone and Morocco. […]
THE WEST BANK, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from the olive trees that have sustained his family for generations. Like thousands of Palestinian farmers, he faces growing restrictions from Israeli forces and settlers, who have made the olive harvest season – which runs from September to November – a time of uncertainty and struggle. […]
WINDHOEK, Namibia, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – A fresh assessment of the tallest living land animal and largest ruminant on Earth has officially recognized four distinct giraffe species, overturning previous classifications of giraffes as a single species. The new study reshapes how the diversity of the world’s giraffe species is understood and conserved. […]
KABUL, Afghanistan, September 4, 2025 (ENS) – Preliminary reports from the frontlines of the latest Afghanistan quake now indicate that the death toll from a massive earthquake in Afghanistan last Sunday has climbed to 2,205 and the number of injured stands at 3,640 as rescue workers finally access the remote mountainous area hit by the disaster. […]
SACRAMENTO, California, September 4, 2025 (ENS) – To ensure that their states’ residents’ access to vaccines remains protected by science, not politics, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson are launching a new West Coast Health Alliance. […]
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