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Runways Underwater: Rising Seas Threaten 80 Airports

February 8, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Runways Underwater: Rising Seas Threaten 80 Airports

 

WASHINGTON, DC, February 8, 2020 (ENS) – At least 80 airports around the world could be underwater if climate change causes sea levels to rise just one meter [...]

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Oil Spill Fouls Pristine Patagonian Waters

July 29, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Oil Spill Fouls Pristine Patagonian Waters

 

SANTIAGO, Chile, July 29, 2019 (ENS) – An oil spill under investigation by the Chilean Navy on the far southern coast of Patagonia has been contained, mining company [...]

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World’s Biggest Algae Bloom ‘Here to Stay’

July 9, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on World’s Biggest Algae Bloom ‘Here to Stay’

 

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, July 9, 2019 (ENS) – The largest bloom of macroalgae in the world, an unprecedented belt of brown algae, now stretches from West Africa to [...]

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West Antarctic Glaciers Unstable, Melting Into the Sea

May 16, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on West Antarctic Glaciers Unstable, Melting Into the Sea

 

LEEDS, England, UK, May 16, 2019 (ENS) – The warming of ocean waters over the 25 years between 1992 and 2017 have caused the glacier ice in West [...]

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Climate Change Disrupts Recovery of Great Barrier Reef

April 13, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Change Disrupts Recovery of Great Barrier Reef

 

TOWNSVILLE, Queensland, Australia, April 13, 2019 (ENS) – The damage caused to the Great Barrier Reef by the warming climate has compromised the capacity of its corals to [...]

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Whales to Be Freed From Russian Whale Jail This Summer

April 9, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Whales to Be Freed From Russian Whale Jail This Summer

 

NAKHODKA, Russia, April 9, 2019 (ENS) – Officials in Russia have agreed to free almost 100 whales held in cramped sea pens in the Russian Far East for [...]

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Japan Restricts Its Whalers to Japanese Waters

April 7, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Japan Restricts Its Whalers to Japanese Waters

 

TOKYO, Japan, April 7, 2019 (ENS) – Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, issued a written statement in the last week of 2018 announcing the government’s decision to [...]

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Oregon Governor Signs Offshore Drilling Ban into Law

March 27, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Oregon Governor Signs Offshore Drilling Ban into Law

 

SALEM, Oregon, March 27, 2019 (ENS) – Oregon Governor Kate Brown, a Democrat, today signed a bill into law that creates a new line of defense against offshore [...]

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Inslee Budgets a Billion for Washington’s Orcas, Salmon

December 14, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Inslee Budgets a Billion for Washington’s Orcas, Salmon

 

OLYMPIA, Washington, December 14, 2018 (ENS) – Washington Governor Jay Inslee Thursday announced an unprecedented $1.1 billion investment to protect the 74 Southern Resident orcas in Washington State [...]

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Argentina Protects Wonders of the Patagonian Sea

December 13, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Argentina Protects Wonders of the Patagonian Sea

 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, December 13, 2018 (ENS) – Argentina has created two new massive offshore marine parks in the southwest Atlantic that will help protect habitat and feeding [...]

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Aquariums, States Blast Atlantic Coast Seismic Permits

December 7, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Aquariums, States Blast Atlantic Coast Seismic Permits

 

NEW YORK, New York, December 7, 2018 (ENS) – The Trump administration has decided to authorize the use of seismic air guns to locate oil and gas pockets [...]

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Interpol Operation Exposes Marine Pollution Crime

November 15, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Interpol Operation Exposes Marine Pollution Crime

 

LYON, France, November 14, 2018 (ENS) – A month-long international law enforcement operation against maritime pollution has revealed hundreds of violations and exposed serious cases of contamination worldwide. [...]

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Federal Judge Bans Fracking Off California Coast

November 12, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Federal Judge Bans Fracking Off California Coast

 

LOS ANGELES, California, November 12, 2018 (ENS) – Conservation and Native American groups have won their fracking lawsuit against the Trump administration. A federal court has ordered the [...]

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California Blocks Trump’s Oil Drilling Off State Coast

August 28, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on California Blocks Trump’s Oil Drilling Off State Coast

 

SACRAMENTO, California, August 28, 2018 (ENS) – California is using its control over the last three miles between the Pacific Ocean and the shore to thwart President Donald [...]

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World’s Second Largest Reef Out of Danger

June 29, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on World’s Second Largest Reef Out of Danger

 

MANAMA, Bahrain, June 27, 2018 (ENS) – Conservationists around the world are celebrating the announcement by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee Tuesday that the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System [...]

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Climate Change Is Killing the Great Barrier Reef

April 18, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Change Is Killing the Great Barrier Reef

 

TOWNSVILLE, Queensland, Australia, April 18, 2018 (ENS) – Corals on the northern part of the world’s largest coral reef, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, experienced a catastrophic die-off following [...]

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New Kind of Insurance Protects Coral Reefs at Risk

March 19, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on New Kind of Insurance Protects Coral Reefs at Risk

 

CANCUN-PLAYA del CARMEN, Mexico, March 19, 2018 (ENS) – A new type of insurance to protect coral reefs introduced at the 2018 World Ocean Summit in Mexico earlier [...]

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Belize Blocks Oil Development on Americas’ Longest Reef

February 2, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Belize Blocks Oil Development on Americas’ Longest Reef

 

BELMOPAN, Belize, February 2, 2018 (ENS) – While President Donald Trump intends to open nearly all U.S. waters to offshore oil development for the first time, the country [...]

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Giant Oil Spill Contaminates East China Sea

January 17, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Giant Oil Spill Contaminates East China Sea

 

BEIJING, China, January 17, 2018 (ENS) – An Iranian tanker carrying a full load of natural gas condensate that sank Sunday has been found on the bottom of the [...]

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Oceans Dying With Too Much Heat, Too Little Oxygen

January 8, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Oceans Dying With Too Much Heat, Too Little Oxygen

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 8, 2018 (ENS) – The world’s coral reefs are dying due to global warming, finds a unique study published Friday in the journal “Science.”

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