BARCELONA, Spain, May 5, 2024 (ENS) – The 2024 Ocean Decade Conference, held in Barcelona from April 10 to 12, attracted over 1,500 participants from 124 countries and thousands of online viewers. Under the theme “The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want,” this conference emerged as one of the largest-ever gatherings of the global oceanic community. […]
GAZA, April 26, 2024 (ENS) – Scorching temperatures across Gaza have magnified the daily suffering faced by the area’s displaced people and renewed fears of disease outbreaks due to a lack of clean water and waste disposal, United Nations humanitarians said on Thursday. […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 25, 2024 (ENS) – Ohio is celebrating the recovery of the state’s trumpeter swans as a conservation success story. The Ohio Wildlife Council, an eight-member, bipartisan group […]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 24, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued the first national, legally enforceable drinking water standard to protect communities from exposure to harmful per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, often called forever chemicals. […]
REEDSPORT, Oregon, April 25, 2024 (ENS) – Nearly 18,000 young salmon have died after a vandal poured bleach into a Douglas County fish hatchery tank Monday, according to law enforcement […]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2024 (ENS) – Celebrating Earth Day today, President Joe Biden traveled to Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, a national park site developed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. Biden chose this background to unveil the first jobs rollout under his new American Climate Corps, and to announce $7 billion in solar energy grants through EPA’s Solar for All program. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 14, 2024 (ENS) – Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial, CVOW-C, project located off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. has this week received its final […]
ALBANY, New York, April 12, 2024 (ENS) – The world’s most exciting cutting-edge Electron-Ion Collider, expected to generate fresh insights into the structure and behavior of atomic particles, will be built over the next 10 years at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, 67 miles east of New York City. […]
FORT YATES, North Dakota, April 10, 2024 (ENS) – The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation spans the border between the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, but as of now the Governor of South Dakota cannot enter the reservation – she is not welcome. […]
STRASBOURG, France, April 9, 2024 (ENS) – The European Court of Human Rights today sided with a group of senior Swiss women who sued the government of Switzerland for placing them at greater risk of death from heat waves by failing to do enough to halt climate change. […]
DEER PARK, Texas, April 5, 2024 (ENS) – The Japanese-owned Intercontinental Terminals Company has agreed to pay more than US$6.6 million to federal and Texas state natural resource trustees over […]
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 3, 2024 (ENS) – “The whir of helicopter blades deafens the peaceful swish of sagebrush. Hundreds of hooves descend upon the baking Western foothills: sweat and […]
BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 2, 2024 (ENS) – The tugboat Crystal Coast pushing a fuel barge, sailed through the temporary alternate channel created by the Key Bridge Response Unified Command, at 3 pm Monday afternoon. It was the first vessel to use the channel since the Francis Scott Key Bridge, struck by a container ship, collapsed into the Patapsco River on March 26, killing six workmen, severing road and shipping transport across the river, and closing the busy Port of Baltimore. […]
PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) – Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water to mark World Water Day. […]
SACRAMENTO, California, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Oil giant Chevron has agreed to pay a record-breaking $13 million in settlement agreements to two California state resource agencies for oil spills […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Final national pollution standards for passenger cars, light- and medium-duty vehicles for upcoming model years 2027 through 2032 were set this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency following an 11-month public consultation process. […]
SINGAPORE, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Across the world, people by the millions will be turning off their lights – going dark for one hour on Saturday, March 23, starting at 8:30 in the evening local time – to give the planet a rest. It’s Earth Hour, a global movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund, WWF, that has attracted more participants year by year since the first Earth Hour in March 2007. […]
OAKLAND, California, March 15, 2024 (ENS) – Monday was the 27th International Day of Action for Rivers, a day when all across the world rivers were cleaned, dams were protested, webinars and classes were taught, adventures were had, and ecosystems were protected by people across six continents with at least one thing in common – a shared love for the world’s rivers. […]
HONOLULU, Hawai’i, March 12, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a Hawaiian picture-wing fly found […]
BRA, Italy, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – “Inspire Inclusion” is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. Celebrated annually on March 8, which this year falls on Friday, organizers are exploring the connection between nutritious, healthy food and the work of women in the growing, harvesting, cooking, and serving of that food. […]
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