WASHINGTON, DC, January 9, 2013 (ENS) – Environmental factors contribute to higher rates of disease and injury among Americans compared to people in other high-income countries, , finds a new report from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 7, 2013 (ENS) – Late Sunday night crews were successful in refloating the Shell drilling rig Kulluk that grounded in the Gulf of Alaska on a stormy New Year’s Eve. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 4, 2013 (ENS) – Congress approved a bill Friday that allows the National Flood Insurance Program to load on $9.7 billion in new debt to help meet claims arising from Hurricane Sandy. […]
KODIAK CITY, Alaska, January 2, 2013 (ENS) – No oil is leaking from a Shell oil drilling vessel that ran aground off an Alaska island during a severe storm while under tow, officials said, as environmentalists again warned against Arctic oil drilling. […]
HAVANA, Cuba, December 26, 2012 (ENS) – A rise in cholera cases in the Cuban capital Havana is being traced back to parts of the country hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, the worst natural disaster to strike Cuba in half a century. […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, December 18, 2012 (ENS) – Indonesia has identified the bird flu virus that has killed hundreds of thousands of ducks over the past few weeks as a virulent type which is new to the country. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – President Barack Obama has asked Congress to appropriate $60 billion to help in the rebuilding of the states and cities from North Carolina to Maine devastated by superstorm Sandy in late October. […]
TOKYO, Japan, December 7, 2012 (ENS) – Northeastern Japan was jolted by a powerful earthquake at 5:18 pm Friday, local time in the same area that was hit by a much stronger quake and tsunami on March 11 last year. […]
MANILA, Philippines, December 6, 2012 (ENS) – A furious typhoon with intense rain has claimed 325 lives in the Philippines and injured more than 400 other people. Hundreds more are missing and nearly 200,000 are homeless tonight. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, November 19, 2012 (ENS) – U.S. government agencies are investigating an explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico Friday aboard an oil production platform owned by Black Elk Energy. The incident left one worker dead; another is still missing and four others are in the hospital with severe burns. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, November 15, 2012 (ENS) – Oil giant BP has agreed to pay the U.S. government more than $4 billion to settle criminal charges stemming from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 9, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. government is taking aim at wildlife trafficking in a new, more focused manner by placing it high on the foreign policy and security agenda. Increasingly run by well-funded, heavily armed criminal syndicates, wildlife trafficking “has become more organized, more lucrative, more widespread, and more dangerous than ever before,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Thursday. […]
NEW YORK, New York, November 7, 2012 (ENS) – A new weather emergency is bearing down on the New York-New Jersey region, just nine days after superstorm Sandy walloped the East Coast, leaving millions without power and displacing thousands from ruined homes. […]
NEW YORK, New York, November 5, 2012 (ENS) – Classes resumed for nearly one million New York public school students Monday as schools opened for the first time since Hurricane Sandy brought the city to a standstill one week ago. […]
NEW YORK, New York, November 1, 2012 (ENS) – Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting and Christina Aguilera will perform on a one-hour telethon Friday night to benefit Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
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NEW YORK, New York, November 1, 2012 (ENS) – The death toll from superstorm Sandy continues to rise as search and rescue workers find more bodies of those who were swept away, drowned or died when trees crushed their homes or cars. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 31, 2012 (ENS) – President Barack Obama joined New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today for a survey of the destruction left by Hurricane Sandy, which battered the East Coast on Monday. The President has issued a major disaster declaration for New Jersey, among a dozen other states. […]
NEW YORK, New York, October 30, 2012 (ENS) – “Sadly, this storm claimed the lives of people throughout the region, including at least 10 in our city – and tragically we expect that number to go up as information continues to come in,” said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg surveying his damaged city this morning in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 30, 2012 (ENS) – Three nuclear power reactors in the U.S. Northeast shut down Monday during superstorm Sandy, while another is in a state of Alert due to high water levels in its water intake structure. […]
NEW YORK, New York, October 29, 2012 (ENS) – After claiming 69 lives in the Caribbean countries it ravaged last week, Hurricane Sandy struck land near Atlantic City, New Jersey about 8 pm Monday night. Four hours later, 11 more people have lost their lives to the howling winds and flooding rains of the enormous storm. […]
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