CAPE TOWN, South Africa, January 6, 2024 (ENS) – South Africa’s limited protected-area estate is increasingly coming under threat from mining. This is facilitated by an enabling regulatory environment that permits mining and related activities within certain protected areas. […]
PORTLAND, Oregon, December 31, 2023 (ENS) – People who eat fish that live year-round in Oregon’s Lower Willamette River are taking a big risk, as these fish contain levels of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls high enough to harm health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been warning for decades. […]
COLUMBUS, Indiana, December 31, 2023 (ENS) – Installing emissions defeat devices on hundreds of thousands of engines over the past decade will cost engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. $1.675 billion to settle claims that it violated the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Justice Department has announced. […]
LYON, France, December 29, 2023 (ENS) – Rare live primates, pangolins, birds, and reptiles; body parts from endangered elephants, rhinos, and big cats as well as protected tropical hardwoods have been seized in a joint Interpol – World Customs Organization operation to stop wildlife and timber trafficking. […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 3, 2023 (ENS) – On Sunday, the first Health Day at a United Nations climate summit, more than 40 million health professionals from around the world joined the call to action by the World Health Organization and civil society organizations to prioritize health in the climate negotiations at COP28 now taking place in Dubai. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 25, 2023 (ENS) – The European Commission has proposed the EU’s first Forest Monitoring Law to plug existing gaps in information about European forests. It is expected to create a comprehensive forest knowledge base so that forest owners and managers can improve their responses to growing pressures on forests and strengthen forest resilience. […]
WOODSIDE, California, November 20, 2023 (ENS) – President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping are long-time acquaintances, and despite recent tensions, their in-person talks on November 15 at the Filoli Estate in Woodside yielded some advances for the environment. […]
PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – From black puffs of diesel exhaust to the sun-blocking haze of orange wildfire smoke, air pollution is known to damage respiratory health. Now, research from Rutgers and four other American universities finds that polluted air can harm human reproductive health. […]
RICHMOND, Virginia, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the European supplier that leads the global market for offshore wind turbines, has suspended plans to build a US$200 million turbine blade factory at Virginia’s Portsmouth Marine Terminal, a major container port. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Everybody knows what ultraprocessed foods are – sweet snacks, ready-to-eat meals, fats and sauces, ice cream, savory snacks, cookies and chips, ham, sausages, artificial sweeteners. They can tickle the tastebuds, but new research links them with depression. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Temperature records were again shattered in October, continuing a streak of high land and ocean surface temperatures and low sea ice, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, C3S. […]
NEW YORK, New York, November 10, 2023 (ENS) – World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today briefed an Emergency Meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the health situation in Gaza, as Israeli forces attacked hospitals, forcing thousands of civilians sheltering there to flee. […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 6, 2023 (ENS) – South Africa’s National Assembly has passed the country’s first Climate Change Bill over objections from two political parties – the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters and the conservative African Christian Democratic Party. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 30, 2023 (ENS) – The World Bank and the world’s nine multilateral development banks are moving to strengthen their cooperation so they can fast-track solutions to problems in the lives of developing country residents. […]
ACAPULCO, Mexico, October 27, 2023 (ENS) – Hurricane Otis slammed into the beach resort city of Acapulco as a Category 5 storm early Wednesday, claiming the lives of at least 27 people and leaving four others still missing, numbers that have remained unchanged for the past 24 hours… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 27, 2023 (ENS) – U.S. defense and space agencies are moving quickly toward the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket, NTR. […]
BERKELEY, California, October 26, 2023 (ENS) – Wild animals across every continent are contaminated with flame retardant chemicals, according to a new map tracking peer-reviewed research studies worldwide. The more than 150 species of polluted wildlife mapped include penguins, killer whales, red pandas, chimpanzees and other endangered species. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – Two huge disasters have hit northern African countries in the past month – a major earthquake in Morocco and devastating flooding in Libya caused by Storm Daniel. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – The year 2023 is now on track to be the warmest year on record, as numerous high temperature records broken in recent months are again smashed… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2023 (ENS) – On his Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021, one of the first things Joe Biden did as President was to deliver a Proclamation lifting his predecessor’s 2019 declaration of an emergency at the U.S. southern border with Mexico, used to justify building a border wall. […]
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