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. […]
BELEM, Brazil, August 11, 2023, (ENS) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week hosted a two-day regional summit of the eight Amazon River basin countries seeking a plan to save the world’s largest rainforest. At their meeting in Belem on August 8 and 9, the eight leaders had intended to reach consensus on issues from deforestation to sustainable development in the Amazon in the first such conference in 14 years. […]
BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a storm surge that sweeps more than 21 million tons of toxic coal ash from a power plant into the Mobile River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. […]
LYON, France, May 4, 2021 (ENS) – Thousands of suspects, companies and criminal networks engaged in maritime pollution have been detected and dozens arrested in a global operation […]
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