WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2024 (ENS) – The International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. have reached a tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend their current Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues. […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, October 2, 2024 (ENS) – Hurricane Helene blasted through the southern United States Thursday night as a deadly Category 4 Hurricane, claiming at least 175 lives in six states, and leaving millions still without power. Falling trees crushed buildings as historic flooding across multiple states put homes and businesses underwater. […]
LANSING, Michigan, September 26, 2024 (ENS) – General Motors has announced a 15-year renewable energy purchase agreement for three vehicle assembly plants. The Michigan-based automaker signed the solar agreement with NorthStar Clean Energy, a unit of CMS Energy, an American company based in Jackson, Michigan. […]
VIENNA, Austria, September 21, 2024 (ENS) – China is opening 12 nuclear research facilities and testing platforms to international scientists and institutions to enhance global nuclear cooperation, a senior Chinese official said in Vienna this week. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 23, 2024 (ENS) – The current mpox outbreak “can be controlled and can be stopped,” the leader of the World Health Organization, WHO, emphasized on Friday, announcing an action plan that calls for US$135 million over the next six months. […]
CHICAGO, Illinois, August 22, 2024 (ENS) – Deb Haaland brought Indigeneity front and center at the Democratic National Convention on its final night in a speech that presented the case for environmental protections. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2024 (ENS) – The first U.S. floating offshore wind energy research lease was granted to the State of Maine by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, BOEM, on Monday. The lease area covers nearly 15,000 acres located 28 nautical miles offshore Maine on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 8, 2024 (ENS) – For the first time in almost 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking the emergency action of suspending all registrations of a pesticide under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, warning of health risks to babies in the womb. […]
WOLLONGONG, New South Wales, Australia, August 8, 2024 (ENS) – A new 400-year temperature record published today shows the world’s largest coral reef is experiencing catastrophic damage. Warming sea temperatures and repeated mass coral bleaching events are threatening to destroy the ecology, biodiversity, and beauty of the Great Barrier Reef. […]
NUUK, Greenland, July 23, 2024 (ENS) – On the morning of Sunday, July 21, Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of marine conservation organization Greenpeace, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, was arrested by Greenland police upon his arrival in the capital, Nuuk. […]
ROME, Italy, July 21, 2024 (ENS) – Pope Francis has kickstarted the Vatican’s plan to become a solar nation that he detailed in an Apostolic Letter entitled “Fratello sole” or Brother Sun. The plan is to use land outside Rome that the Vatican already owns to construct an agrivoltaic plant that will power the entire city-state. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 6, 2024 (ENS) – Independence Day 2024 will go down in the record books as one of the hottest. In total, more than 100 million people – nearly one in every three Americans – spent Thursday under heat alerts, according to the National Weather Service. […]
MIAMI, Florida, July 4, 2024 (ENS) – Hurricane Beryl, now causing havoc across the Caribbean, is the earliest storm on record to hit Category 5 with sustained winds of 157 mph, the highest classification on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 1, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today in favor of Corner Post, Inc., a truckstop in rural North Dakota, and other rulings issued last week, alter the statute of limitations and other rules for challenging agency actions, threatening the stability of the laws that provide the United States with protections from the unchecked power of corporations such as polluting industries. […]
HOBART, Tasmania, Australia, June 25, 2024 (ENS) – Extreme wildfires have more than doubled in frequency and intensity over the past 21 years, according to a global study from the Fire Centre in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 24, 2024 (ENS) – Ridding foods of dangerous industrial trans fats requires country-wide best practice policies, and nearly half the world has adopted those policies finds a research report issued by the UN World Health Organization today. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 19, 2024 (ENS) – Air pollution is increasingly impacting human health, finds the State of Global Air report published in partnership with the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF. The report warned today that air pollution accounted for 8.1 million deaths globally in 2021. […]
PARIS, France, June 18, 2024 (ENS) – France is hosting the Summer Olympic Games for the first time in 100 years, and this year the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay illuminates the wonders of Europe’s finest environments as it visits 30 protected UNESCO World Heritage natural and cultural sites. […]
Manhattan’s congestion pricing was scheduled to go into effect on June 30, 2024, final arrangements were being made. But on Friday, just 25 days before tolling was to start, Governor Hochul slammed on the brakes. […]
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 28, 2024 (ENS) – “You got into the mud, walked through flood water and had symptoms of leptospirosis? Seek health care, as there is treatment and we have enough medication. Treatment cannot wait, don’t stay at home thinking it will go away, […]
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