Air/Climate
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 [...]
Oceans
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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’
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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
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
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
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 [...]
Energy
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
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
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
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
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. [...]
Energy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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