DAMASCUS, Syria, May 28, 2025 (ENS) – Landmines and explosive ordnance from 14 years of conflict are still spreading their deadly contamination, creating a humanitarian emergency across Syria, the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies are urgently warning. […]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, May 28, 2025 (ENS) – Fragrances and lotions change the way people smell, and new research shows they do much more than that. These personal care products act to alter the indoor air chemistry around the wearer, disrupting a natural process the body uses to protect itself from indoor air pollution… […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20, 2025 (ENS) – The first Pandemic Agreement in the world was today formally adopted by consensus as the Member States of the World Health Organization, WHO, voted during the 78th World Health Assembly. […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19, 2025 (ENS) – A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organized crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and fueling illicit markets. […]
LONDON, England, May 17, 2025, (ENS) – May 2025 has become the month for advancing a global circular economy with events and conferences. The Festival of Circular Economy 2025 opens […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 15, 2025 (ENS) – The Trump administration is rolling back drinking water protections from six PFAS, known as ‘forever chemicals,’ linked to decreased fertility in women, damaged child development, and higher cancer risks. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 12, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy is undertaking what the Trump administration calls the “largest deregulatory effort in history.” The agency is proposing the elimination or reduction of 47 regulations that it claims are driving up costs and lowering quality of life for the American people. […]
PARIS, France, May 12, 2025 (ENS) – Measures to tackle methane emissions are often cost-effective and could have brought an extra 100 billion cubic meters of gas to market in 2024, but now the International Energy Agency’s Global Tracker shows methane emissions from fossil fuels remain at high levels, finds the latest global tracking update. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 8, 2025 (ENS) – The European Union will end its use of Russian energy by stopping the import of Russian gas and oil and phasing out Russian nuclear energy, while ensuring stable energy supplies and prices across the EU. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 1, 2025 (ENS) – President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term as President. His 100th day in office was April 30, 2025. This chronology documents the most important of his presidential actions that have impacted the environment of the United States in his first 100 days. […]
YANGON, Myanmar, April 21, 2025 (ENS) – Military operations continue in Myanmar despite ceasefires declared after the recent 7.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 3,700 people, the United Nations human […]
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31, 2025 (ENS) – Climate change is altering butterfly habitats, turning their species-rich, mountain refuges into traps, finds new research by U.S. and German scientists. They think of it as the butterfly effect – the idea that a small event can have a big, unpredictable influence on the future – in reverse. A large, global series of events is affecting tiny butterflies. […]
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 27, 2025 (ENS) – West Virginia, where the state’s 1.7 million residents experience high rates of preventable deaths and a lower life expectancy than the national average, adopted a ban on seven chemical food dyes and preservatives this week. The chemicals have been linked to neurobehavioral problems and cancer in some children. […]
By Don Pinnock CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 20, 2025 (ENS) – Globally renowned South African conservationist and National Geographic Explorer, Vincent van der Merwe, who organised the transfer of […]
MANDAN, North Dakota, March 19, 2025 (ENS) – A Morton County jury of nine reached a verdict Wednesday in Energy Transfer’s lawsuit against three Greenpeace entities, finding them liable for more than US$660 million in damages. […]
ALBANY, New York, March 18, 2025 (ENS) – It was more than two months ago, on January 14, during the last week of President Joe Biden’s administration, when New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to invest more than US$1 billion to address the climate crisis and achieve a more sustainable and affordable future as part of her 2025 State of the State address. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2025 – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced 31 actions the agency has taken to deregulate the American system of environmental protections across the country. Zeldin says he took these actions “to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and power the Great American Comeback.” […]
LONDON, UK, March 15, 2025 (ENS) – An international marine incident involving at least four countries, two large ships, and the death of a crew member is threatening environmental damage […]
ATLANTA, Georgia, March 11, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun cleanup of Lindsay Street Park in the English Avenue neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, now closed due to lead contamination. […]
LYON, France, March 9, 2025 (ENS) – Some
20,000 live animals, all endangered or protected species, have been seized during Operation Thunder, the biggest global crackdown against wildlife and forestry trafficking networks in history, jointly coordinated by Interpol and the World Customs Organization. […]
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