GENEVA, Switzerland, August 9, 2022 (ENS) – Authorities are scrambling water-bomber planes and hundreds of exhausted firefighters are gearing up again to battle the wildfires racing through Europe this summer. […]
MANILA, Philippines, August 7, 2022 (ENS) – The Asian Development Bank has lowered its economic growth forecast for developing Asia and the Pacific to 4.6 percent this year, down from a projection of 5.2 percent issued by ADB in April. […]
LONDON, UK, August 3, 2022 (ENS) – The electric vehicle market is opening quickly now around the world, making it possible to come up with a consumer portrait of the most likely buyers of electric cars, trucks, and delivery vans. A similar profile has emerged from two very different recent studies – buyers are likely to be male, young, and environmentally conscious. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 29, 2022 (ENS) – Two of the Democrats’ most powerful senators have agreed to add a $700 billion climate change, energy security and debt reduction package, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, to the Budget Reconciliation bill and vote in the Senate next week. […]
BARAM, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 25, 2022 (ENS) – Indigenous Penan communities have filed a police report and erected blockades to put a permanent stop to logging of the mountain Batu Siman in northern Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo… […]
TOKYO, Japan, July 24, 2022 (ENS) – Japan’s nuclear regulator on Friday officially approved a plan to release more than a million tons of treated water from the damaged Fukushima […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24, 2022 (ENS) – The ongoing multi-country outbreak of monkeypox constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared Saturday after meeting with WHO’s Monkeypox Emergency Committee. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2022 (ENS) – Mexico and the United States are taking action on a new development cooperation framework that addresses the root causes of irregular migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Under this framework, called Sembrando Oportunidades, or Sowing Opportunities, the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, Amexcid, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, will coordinate to help the citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras build prosperous futures in their home communities. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 20, 2022 (ENS) – Senator Joe Manchin of the coal-producing state of West Virginia, a Democrat, has told Democratic congressional leaders that he won’t support new climate […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 18, 2022 (ENS) – In a win for conservationists and wildlife, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered new Environmental Protection Agency reviews of two Trump-era decisions to allow the use of two specific chemicals without considering their impact on endangered species such as salmon. […]
NEW YORK, New York, July 8, 2022 (ENS) – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and staff Thursday released the Rainfall Ready NYC action plan – a plan to prepare the city government and all New Yorkers for a future of more extreme rainfall. As climate change brings more extreme weather to the five boroughs, the city is making investments in infrastructure to keep New Yorkers safe… […]
LISBON, Portugal, July 1, 2022 (ENS) – Heads of state, world leaders, and government officials wrapping up their week-long meeting in Lisbon at the UN Ocean Conference admitted to being “deeply alarmed by the global emergency facing the ocean.” Across the planet, coastal erosion, rising sea levels, warmer and more acidic waters, marine pollution, overexploitation of fish populations and a steep decline in marine biodiversity are getting worse… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2022 (ENS) – A majority of U.S. Supreme Court Justices voted today to restrict the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to limit and reduce carbon dioxide emissions that raise the atmospheric temperature, accelerating the climate crisis. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 27, 2022 (ENS) – The European Commission has adopted proposals for its first Nature Restoration Law so that the damaged ecosystems across 80 percent of Europe can be revitalized – from forests to seas, agricultural lands to streams, and even city parks. […]
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Bavaria, Germany, June 26, 2022 (ENS) – At a century-old retreat in a Bavarian Alpine nature reserve, the world’s seven largest and wealthiest liberal democracies today formally launched
the Partnership for Global Infrastructure to mobilize “hundreds of billions of dollars and deliver quality, sustainable infrastructure” to support climate action and improve cybersecurity, gender equality and health care. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25, 2022 (ENS) – State Attorney General Maura Healey today sued 13 manufacturers of poly- and perfluoroalkyl, PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals used in firefighting foam. They include some of the biggest firms in the country, such as 3M of St. Paul, Minnesota, which makes fluorochemicals. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 20, 2022 (ENS) – Coming together as the Metro Electric Bus Coalition, public health, environmental, and faith groups are pressuring the new Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, WMATA, to scrap the plan the previous board approved last June in favor of electric buses. […]
KRASNOYARSK, Russia, May 20, 2022 (ENS) – Early season wildfires in Siberia this spring threaten yet another record-breaking fire season in Russia, while the Russian government continues to pour resources into its ongoing war in Ukraine. […]
SYDNEY, New South Wales, Australia, May 17, 2022 (ENS) – Climate change is making storms more intense and destructive, but the impact of extreme storms is not wholly negative, an international team of researchers has learned. Sand movements stirred up by extreme weather events could help protect beaches from the impact of sea-level rise by bringing in new sand from deeper waters or from nearby beaches. […]
CARDIFF, Wales, UK, May 16, 2022 (ENS) – Farmlands across Europe are becoming the largest global reservoir of microplastics due to the high concentrations found in fertilizers derived from sewage sludge, new research from Cardiff University demonstrates. […]
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