WASHINGTON, DC, May 1, 2025 (ENS) – President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term as President. His 100th day in office was April 30, 2025. This chronology documents the most important of his presidential actions that have impacted the environment of the United States in his first 100 days. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2025 (ENS) – Today, on the 55th anniversary of Earth Day, polls confirm that the great majority of Americans support increasing investment in renewables and the immediate deployment of all forms of renewable energy. This year’s Earth Day theme is the aspirational slogan, “Our Power, Our Planet.” […]
YANGON, Myanmar, April 21, 2025 (ENS) – Military operations continue in Myanmar despite ceasefires declared after the recent 7.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 3,700 people, the United Nations human […]
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31, 2025 (ENS) – Climate change is altering butterfly habitats, turning their species-rich, mountain refuges into traps, finds new research by U.S. and German scientists. They think of it as the butterfly effect – the idea that a small event can have a big, unpredictable influence on the future – in reverse. A large, global series of events is affecting tiny butterflies. […]
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 27, 2025 (ENS) – West Virginia, where the state’s 1.7 million residents experience high rates of preventable deaths and a lower life expectancy than the national average, adopted a ban on seven chemical food dyes and preservatives this week. The chemicals have been linked to neurobehavioral problems and cancer in some children. […]
By Don Pinnock CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 20, 2025 (ENS) – Globally renowned South African conservationist and National Geographic Explorer, Vincent van der Merwe, who organised the transfer of […]
MANDAN, North Dakota, March 19, 2025 (ENS) – A Morton County jury of nine reached a verdict Wednesday in Energy Transfer’s lawsuit against three Greenpeace entities, finding them liable for more than US$660 million in damages. […]
ALBANY, New York, March 18, 2025 (ENS) – It was more than two months ago, on January 14, during the last week of President Joe Biden’s administration, when New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to invest more than US$1 billion to address the climate crisis and achieve a more sustainable and affordable future as part of her 2025 State of the State address. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2025 – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced 31 actions the agency has taken to deregulate the American system of environmental protections across the country. Zeldin says he took these actions “to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and power the Great American Comeback.” […]
LONDON, UK, March 15, 2025 (ENS) – An international marine incident involving at least four countries, two large ships, and the death of a crew member is threatening environmental damage […]
ATLANTA, Georgia, March 11, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun cleanup of Lindsay Street Park in the English Avenue neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, now closed due to lead contamination. […]
LYON, France, March 9, 2025 (ENS) – Some
20,000 live animals, all endangered or protected species, have been seized during Operation Thunder, the biggest global crackdown against wildlife and forestry trafficking networks in history, jointly coordinated by Interpol and the World Customs Organization. […]
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 8, 2025 (ENS) – A new low-cost sensor that detects airborne H5N1 avian flu in under five minutes sounds mighty good as bird flu continues to spread, infecting 70 people in the United States in the past 11 months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has confirmed. One person has died. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2025 (ENS) – The Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings said Tuesday that it will sell all shares in its subsidiaries Hutchison Port Holdings and Hutchison Port Group Holdings to a consortium that includes the U.S. company BlackRock Inc. in a deal valued at close to US$23 billion that carries $5 billion in debt. […]
KYIV, Ukraine, March 3, 2025 (ENS) – After three years of Russia’s unprovoked attacks on its neighbor, Ukraine, the estimated cost of Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery over the next decade […]
SARAWAK, Malaysia, February 24, 2025 (ENS) – In a victory for Indigenous communities defending their customary lands, the timber company Samling Timber Malaysia has withdrawn several of its timber concessions […]
BERLIN, Germany, February 16, 2025 (ENS) – With new funding, Germany’s Environment Ministry, the nonprofit WWF Germany, and the international police force Interpol are joining forces to stop criminals making billions in profits every year by destroying nature. […]
TRENTON, New Jersey, February 10, 2025 (ENS) – A New Jersey accountant was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in the promotion and sale of abusive […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 10, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has created a Crypto Task Force with a page on its website detailing the agency’s new […]
BEIJING, China, February 7, 2025 (ENS) – Ocean warming in 2024 has produced the hottest ocean temperatures ever recorded by humans, hot not only at the surface but also for […]
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