Ruins Old Damascus, Syria
At Risk

Dormant but Deadly: the New Middle East Landmine Crisis

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. […]

Woman with perfume
Latest News

Perfumes, Lotions Suppress Human Protective Air Shield

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… […]

pangolin scales and ivory
Latest News

Pangolins, Elephants: Crime Networks Wiping Out Wild Africa

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. […]

Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Texas
Business

Trump’s Energy Dept. Dumps Regulations in 47 Different Ways

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. […]

methane flaring Nigeria
Air/Climate

Methane Emissions Far Too High: International Energy Agency

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. […]

wind turbines North Sea
Energy

European Union Ending Dependence on Russian Energy

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. […]

Oval Office Trump
RSS

President Trump’s First 100 Days = Environmental Destruction

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. […]

butterfly
Latest News

Butterflies: Magnificent Victims of Intense Climate Change

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. […]

colored cereal
Food

Three States Ban Petrochemical Food Dyes and Preservatives

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. […]

Kathy Hochul
AmeriScan

NEW YORK: Invests $1 Billion in Climate Action, Nuclear Power

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. […]

President Trump, Lee Zeldin
Gov/Politics

Trump EPA Chief Zeldin Brags: ‘EPA Ends the ‘Green New Scam’

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.” […]

oryx seized in Iran
Latest News

365 Suspects Busted for Wildlife, Timber Trafficking

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. […]