GENEVA, Switzerland, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – On a press call to Geneva from Ukraine, Poland and Moldova on Friday, United Nations officials confirmed the vast numbers of Ukrainians who have been forced from their homes since February 24 by the Russian invasion. To date, approximately 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine, with roughly as many people displaced within the country. […]
VIENNA, Austria, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency today that although regular staff continues to operate the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant […]
LYON, France, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – Africa’s elephants top a packed agenda for the CITES Standing Committee meeting opening Monday that covers protection for 30+ species of plants and animals. Delegates will consider the live trade in elephants, management of ivory stockpiles, and the closure of domestic ivory markets. […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 3, 2022 (ENS) – To tackle plastic pollution accumulating across the globe, governments at the UN Environment Assembly here Tuesday approved the start of talks later this year to draft a legally binding agreement – a treaty – that would promote sustainable production and consumption of plastics and prevent their pollution of the environment. […]
BERLIN, Germany, March 1, 2022 (ENS) – “Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after reading the latest from the agency charged with compiling climate reports to advise the United Nations – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 28, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s foremost environmental decision-making body, the United Nations Environment Assembly, opens its annual meeting today in Nairobi. For the next three days, […]
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, February 27, 2022 (ENS) – Cyclone Batsirai smashed into the east coast of Madagascar on February 5, destroying many buildings and disrupting power and communication services to the […]
CANBERRA, Australia, February 26, 2022 (ENS) – To strengthen Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities in Antarctica, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison is making an A$804.4 million investment over the next 10 years. […]
DURHAM, UK, February 25, 2022 (ENS) – Astronomers from Durham University collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using a pan-European radio telescope. The map reveals a detailed radio image of more than 4.4 million galaxies… […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, February 20, 2022 (ENS) – The impacts of climate change are already “very visible” and “happening worldwide,” the head of the UN weather agency told the opening session of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, which convened on Monday in a virtual meeting that will last through February 25. […]
GLAND, Switzerland, February 20, 2022 (ENS) – An in-depth new map and report that tracks whale migrations around the globe, highlights where the whales go in the high seas and the cumulative impacts they face has been issued by the World Wildlife Fund, WWF, to mark this year’s World Whale Day, February 20. […]
LYNGBY, Denmark, February 20, 2022 (ENS) – To support decarbonization of the maritime industry by eliminating idle emissions, Maersk Supply Service is launching its offshore vessel-charging venture, Stillstrom. […]
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas, February 18, 2022 (ENS) – “They’ll come into U.S. waters, they’ll fish, they’ll grab as much snapper as they can and they’ll go head back south before we can detect ’em. The average catch they’ll have on board is 1,000 to 3,000 pounds of snapper,” commanding officer of Coast Guard Station South Padre Island, Lieutenant Commander Dan Ippolito told reporters last year. […]
LORAIN, Ohio, February 18, 2022 (ENS) – In Lorain, once famed for its shipyards, where the Black River flows into Lake Erie, President Joe Biden Thursday announced that his administration is making “the most significant restoration of the Great Lakes in the history of the Great Lakes.” […]
MANCHESTER, UK, February 12, 2022 (ENS) – At least 50 local governing councils across England, Scotland, and Wales are worried about radioactive contamination in their communities, as about half of the UK’s current nuclear generating capacity is due for decommissioning by 2025. […]
BEIJING, China, February 12, 2022 (ENS) – The endangered animals and plants protected by the global treaty known as CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, now have another layer of protection. It comes in the form of attention from the international police force Interpol, which is backing CITES in the enforcement of its regulations. […]
DUNKIRK, France, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal is decarbonizing its factories in France and has attracted the financial support of the French Government to accomplish a drop of 40 percent a year in the company’s CO2 emissions in France by 2030. […]
By Benjamin Seidman CHESAPEAKE BAY, Maryland, February 11, 2022 (ENS) – In the eternal struggle between the ebb and flow of tides, high tides now have the upper hand as […]
LOS ANGELES, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Los Angeles and Shanghai have initiated a partnership of cities, ports, shipping companies, and cargo owners in China and the United States to create a first-of-its-kind green shipping corridor across the Pacific Ocean on one of the world’s busiest container shipping routes. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – The highest glacier on Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, “may already be a relic from an older, colder, time,” says the scientist […]
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