BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a storm surge that sweeps more than 21 million tons of toxic coal ash from a power plant into the Mobile River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. […]
BANGKOK, Thailand, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – A beach in eastern Thailand was declared a disaster-hit area on Saturday as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand continued to wash up onto the coast and blacken the sand. […]
QUITO, Ecuador, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – An oil spill has contaminated a protected area of rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon and polluted the Coca River that supplies water to Indigenous communities, says Ecuador’s environment ministry. […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – The floating production, storage and offloading vessel Trinity Spirit exploded and sank early Wednesday morning at the Ukpokiti Terminal, around Excravos, Warri South-west, in Nigeria’s Delta State, close to the River Niger Delta. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, February 2, 2022 (ENS) – In 2020 wildfires destroyed 30 percent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland extending across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2022 (ENS) – Two-thirds of U.S. states are considering how to safely install nuclear power to replace the coal, oil, and gas that are being phased out to prevent the worst consequences of climate change, a survey of the energy policies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia has found. […]
LYON, France, January 30, 2022 (ENS) – Fisheries crime is linked to other serious crimes such as human trafficking and the smuggling of drugs and explosives, Interpol’s environmental and maritime security teams report after a five-month intelligence operation spanning 34 countries and all oceans. […]
VIENTIANE, Laos, January 29, 2022 (ENS) – On the steep hillsides of the dormant volcano that is Myanmar’s sacred Mount Popa, live more than 100 monkeys of a newly discovered species, just described and identified but already considered critically endangered. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 28, 2022 (ENS) – In a joint statement today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. President Joe Biden reinforced their cooperation on energy security. The two leaders made their positions clear in the face of Russia’s buildup of an estimated 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine. […]
IRVINE, California, January 28, 2022 (ENS) – Rivian, the California-based startup manufacturer of electric trucks, SUVs, and delivery vans, plans to expand, locating a second U.S. factory in the state of Georgia, but expansion doesn’t mean the company is forsaking its green values. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 23, 2022 (ENS) – A couple who gets vaccinated for COVID-19 need not worry that the vaccine will impair fertility, but males who become infected by the virus may experience short-term reduced fertility, researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health have learned. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 22, 2022 (ENS) – Computer chip maker Intel Friday announced plans for an initial investment of more than $20 billion in the construction of two new leading-edge chip factories near Columbus, Ohio. The site will be Intel’s first new factory in 40 years and is already attracting other companies … […]
LIMA, Peru, January 20, 2022 (ENS) – Peru’s President Pedro Castillo today signed a decree declaring a climate emergency due to an oil spill triggered by last week’s volcanic eruption at the Pacific island nation of Tonga, and the resulting tsunami. […]
NEW YORK, New York January 17, 2022 (ENS) – “Science leaves no room for doubt: Climate change is the existential threat of our time,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Eight […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 16, 2022 (ENS) – A lawsuit seeking justice for 9/11 first responders suffering respiratory injuries has been filed against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by the non-profit, environmental protection organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER. […]
TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken by hand with a rope and weight. Today, an international effort led by Seabed 2030 is underway to precisely map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade… […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – A tsunami advisory was issued across the Pacific for the coasts of Australia, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington after an undersea volcano erupted Friday night in the Tonga Islands, sending huge tsunami waves breaking onshore and people scrambling to higher ground. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 14, 2022 (ENS) – Americans who eat beef could slash their diet’s carbon footprint as much as 48 percent by swapping just one serving a day for a more planet-friendly alternative, finds a new study published in the “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.” […]
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, January 10, 2022 (ENS) – The movement to protect marine wildlife took a giant a leap forward this week as a brand new nonprofit environmental organization, the Age of Union Alliance, announced a US$4.5 million donation to Sea Shepherd, the global NGO that partners with governments to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing throughout the world. […]
LANCASTER, UK, January 9, 2022 (ENS) – Coral reefs damaged by rising ocean temperatures appear to be more resilient than scientists have realized. An international team studying damaged reefs has discovered an unexpected bright spot of hope for communities who depend upon coral reef fisheries for food security. […]
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