WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – At least 350 companies have announced their withdrawal from Russia as a consequence of its invasion of Ukraine, including BP, ExxonMobil and Shell [...]
VIENNA, Austria, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – Ukraine’s nuclear regulator lost all communications with the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the disaster site where radioactive spent fuel is stored, on Monday, [...]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 8, 2022 (ENS) – The underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the hills above the Pearl Harbor Naval Station on Oahu will be de-fueled and [...]
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2022 (ENS) – SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is still spreading among people globally as we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The [...]
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 [...]
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, the plant management [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. The new [...]
By Benjamin Seidman
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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