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  Brazil Dismantles Hundreds of Illegal Gold Mining Dredges

  November 5, 2025 Comments Off on Brazil Dismantles Hundreds of Illegal Gold Mining Dredges

  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. [...]

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  KENTUCKY: Fatal Chronic Wasting Disease Spreads in Wild Deer

  November 2, 2025 Comments Off on KENTUCKY: Fatal Chronic Wasting Disease Spreads in Wild Deer

  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. Officials with the Kentucky Department [...]

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  OREGON: Hazelnut Orchard Buy Could Save City Drinking Water

  November 2, 2025 Comments Off on OREGON: Hazelnut Orchard Buy Could Save City Drinking Water

  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 [...]

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  Trump Yanks EV Subsidies, EV Buying Slows, GM Finds New Road

  October 31, 2025 Comments Off on Trump Yanks EV Subsidies, EV Buying Slows, GM Finds New Road

  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 [...]

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  Hurricane Melissa Heads North Leaving Ruins Across Caribbean

  October 30, 2025 Comments Off on Hurricane Melissa Heads North Leaving Ruins Across Caribbean

  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 [...]

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  Jamaica Shudders Before Record-Breaking Hurricane Melissa

  October 28, 2025 Comments Off on Jamaica Shudders Before Record-Breaking Hurricane Melissa

  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 [...]

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  Visitors Face Shutdown Uncertainty Across US National Parks

  October 27, 2025 Comments Off on Visitors Face Shutdown Uncertainty Across US National Parks

  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 [...]

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  CALIF & MASS: Joining Global Conservation Organization

  October 21, 2025 Comments Off on CALIF & MASS: Joining Global Conservation Organization

  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 [...]

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  1st Climate Tipping Point Plunges Planet Into ‘New Reality’

  October 13, 2025 Comments Off on 1st Climate Tipping Point Plunges Planet Into ‘New Reality’

  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 [...]

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  Republicans Seek to Weaken U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act

  October 11, 2025 Comments Off on Republicans Seek to Weaken U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act

  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 [...]

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  OREGON: Gov Cuts Red Tape to Secure Clean Energy Tax Credits

  October 10, 2025 Comments Off on OREGON: Gov Cuts Red Tape to Secure Clean Energy Tax Credits

  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 [...]

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  Planetary Rehab Rules at IUCN World Conservation Congress

  October 9, 2025 Comments Off on Planetary Rehab Rules at IUCN World Conservation Congress

  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 [...]

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  LOUISIANA: Oil, Soot From Smitty’s Fire Persists, EPA Blamed

  October 9, 2025 Comments Off on LOUISIANA: Oil, Soot From Smitty’s Fire Persists, EPA Blamed

  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 [...]

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  NEW JERSEY: Meadowlands Creek Mercury Cleanup Plan Approved

  October 8, 2025 Comments Off on NEW JERSEY: Meadowlands Creek Mercury Cleanup Plan Approved

  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 [...]

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  Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee Expert and Advocate, Dies at 91

  October 2, 2025 Comments Off on Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee Expert and Advocate, Dies at 91

  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. [...]

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  OREGON: Roseburg Forest Products Drops Hardwood Plywood

  September 26, 2025 Comments Off on OREGON: Roseburg Forest Products Drops Hardwood Plywood

  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 at its Dillard Hardwood Plywood [...]

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  100+ Countries Pledge Action at UN Climate Ambition Summit

  September 25, 2025 Comments Off on 100+ Countries Pledge Action at UN Climate Ambition Summit

  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 [...]

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  EU to Suspend Billions in Core Trade Concessions with Israel

  September 18, 2025 Comments Off on EU to Suspend Billions in Core Trade Concessions with Israel

  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 [...]

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  Trump Demolishes U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

  September 17, 2025 Comments Off on Trump Demolishes U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

  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, [...]

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  Protecting Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer: A Success Story

  September 16, 2025 Comments Off on Protecting Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer: A Success Story

  “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 [...]

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  COLORADO: Backroom Deal Lets Suncor Avoid Water Permit Rules

  September 15, 2025 Comments Off on COLORADO: Backroom Deal Lets Suncor Avoid Water Permit Rules

  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 [...]

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  Chemists Transform Plastic Trash Into Climate Solution

  September 15, 2025 Comments Off on Chemists Transform Plastic Trash Into Climate Solution

  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 [...]

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  Update: Oceans Beyond Borders Treaty Prepares for Launch

  September 9, 2025 Comments Off on Update: Oceans Beyond Borders Treaty Prepares for Launch

  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 [...]

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  West Bank Farmers ‘Cut Off’ from Their Heritage Olive Trees

  September 8, 2025 Comments Off on West Bank Farmers ‘Cut Off’ from Their Heritage Olive Trees

  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 [...]

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  Giraffes Reclassified to Four Distinct Species, Not Just One

  September 8, 2025 Comments Off on Giraffes Reclassified to Four Distinct Species, Not Just One

  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 [...]

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  2,205 Dead in Afghanistan Quake, Survivors Need Everything

  September 4, 2025 Comments Off on 2,205 Dead in Afghanistan Quake, Survivors Need Everything

  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 [...]

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  3 Western States Form Scientific Alliance for Vaccine Access

  September 4, 2025 Comments Off on 3 Western States Form Scientific Alliance for Vaccine Access

  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 [...]

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  Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Jail Shut in 60 Days

  August 24, 2025 Comments Off on Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Jail Shut in 60 Days

  MIAMI, Florida, August 23, 2025 (ENS) – A federal judge has ordered the State of Florida and the Trump administration to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees and begin winding down operations at the mass [...]

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  World’s First Plastics Treaty Agreement Proves Elusive

  August 23, 2025 Comments Off on World’s First Plastics Treaty Agreement Proves Elusive

  GENEVA, Switzerland, August 20, 2025 (ENS) – “Ultimately, I have heard from every country here in this room that you want to end plastic pollution. You want a deal,” Inger Andersen, head of the United [...]

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  U.S. EPA Deletes Research Office, Fires Scientific Leaders

  August 20, 2025 Comments Off on U.S. EPA Deletes Research Office, Fires Scientific Leaders

  WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is firing and retiring thousands of workers as part of a “reduction in force” as the agency continues its “comprehensive restructuring efforts” by [...]