PRETORIA, South Africa, August 6, 2023 (ENS) – South African National Parks has confirmed that lions have been targeted in a poisoning campaign in northern Kruger Park by poachers seeking the animals’ body parts, presumably for the trade in the muti, traditional medicine, trade. […]
VIENNA, Austria, August 4, 2023 (ENS) – Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency breathed a sigh of relief when they observed no explosives on the rooftops of nuclear reactor Units 3 and 4 and their turbine halls at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, ZNPP after alerts from Ukrainian intelligence. […]
“The mix of solar, wind and other renewables is now comfortably out-producing both coal and nuclear power,” concludes Ken Bossong, executive director of the nonprofit Sun Day Campaign’s from his office in Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. Bossong, a veteran renewable energy campaigner… […]
VIENNA, Austria, July 31, 2023 (ENS) – Scientists from the Medical University of Vienna have described a key molecular pathway that offers new fundamental insights into the atherosclerosis progression and may pave the way for new treatment approaches. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2023 (ENS) – “The existential threat of climate change,” as President Joe Biden called it, was the most urgent issue for the President at the White House and the mayors of two heat-stricken cities Phoenix, Arizona and San Antonio, Texas in their own offices, as they held a video call today. […]
SOUTHAMPTON, England, UK, July 25, 2023 (ENS) – British scientists have started work on a new underwater artificial intelligence bot which can detect activities that harm the ocean environment. The bot will be used to detect illegal fishing and protect marine mammals during offshore wind farm construction. […]
ISTANBUL, Turkiye, July 23, 2023 (ENS) – Intensifying the food insecurity across much of Africa, the Russian government is weaponizing food in its war on Ukraine. Moscow pulled out of the Black Sea Grain deal last week and is now warning that any ships traveling to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports will be seen as potentially carrying military cargoes. […]
Emanuele Palma, 43, of FCA US, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony of conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act. As alleged in court documents, Palma and others conspired to withhold information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency … […]
WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, July 20, 2023 (ENS) – Six public pension funds in the United States would be $21 billion richer if they had divested from fossil fuels a decade ago, new research from a Canadian university calculates. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 17, 2023 (ENS) – “Scorching temperatures are engulfing large parts of the Northern hemisphere, while devastating floods triggered by relentless rainfall have disrupted lives and livelihoods, underscoring the urgent need for more climate action,” the UN World Meteorological Organization, WMO, said Friday. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 13, 2023 (ENS) – To better safeguard children and communities from the harmful effects of exposure to dust generated by lead paint, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen requirements for the removal of lead-based paint hazards in pre-1978 buildings and child care facilities. […]
XIAMEN, Fujian, China, July 10, 2023 (ENS) – Technology for the remote sensing of underwater oil, useful for monitoring leaks in submerged oil pipelines, ships, platforms and other infrastructure, has just taken a leap forward. […]
VALENZUELA CITY, Philippines, July 7, 2023 (ENS) – The days when law enforcement agencies and courts turned a blind eye to wildlife trafficking are now history. A court in the Philippines has sent an online trafficker to jail for illegally selling Critically Endangered Chinese Giant Salamanders, marking a win against online wildlife crime […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 23, 2023 (ENS) – Two California companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, the cultivated meat division of food technology company Eat Just, Inc., have received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for their cultivated chicken, to enter interstate commerce. This clearance, granted Wednesday, means that cultivated chicken, made directly from animal cells, can now be sold to American consumers. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 22, 2023 (ENS) – As the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to restore protections for species, strengthen consultation and listing processes, and reaffirm the central role science plays in decisions that guide the protection and recovery of endangered and threatened wildlife. […]
PRETORIA, South Africa, June 15, 23 (ENS) – A trustee of the Mawana Family Trust, whose conservationist husband was killed by elephants from the Mawana Game Reserve in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, tried to have 3,600 of its wild animals culled “to get some cash flow going.” By the time the cull was stopped nearly 900 animals were dead. […]
PARIS, France, June 16, 2023 (ENS) – UNESCO has approved the designation of 10 new biosphere reserves in nine countries, and one transboundary biosphere reserve that stretches across the border between two countries. […]
day blocked the departure of the Holland America Lines cruise ship “Zuiderdam” from the port of Rotterdam. The protesters detained the ship by closing off access to the mooring bollards, the tie-up points for mooring lines that anchor vessels safely at their docks. […]
KYIV, Ukraine, June 13, 2023 (ENS) – Experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency are seeking access to a location near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, ZNPP, to clarify the reason for a gap between different measurements of the water level in the reservoir supplying water to cool the facility’s six reactors and spent fuel storage. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 9, 2023 (ENS) – Global economic growth has slowed, and the risk of financial stress in emerging market and developing economies, known as EMDEs, is intensifying, hemmed in by high global interest rates, according to the World Bank’s latest “Global Economic Prospects” report, issued Tuesday. […]
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