KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 30, 2025 (ENS) – The death toll from catastrophic Hurricane Melissa rose to at least 36 across Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba today as residents of these island nations begin to dig themselves out from under the wreckage left by the second strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Caribbean Sea. […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 28, 2025 (ENS) – The eye of the “extremely dangerous” Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is approaching western Jamaica at this moment, menacing the Caribbean island nation with catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and storm surge, warn the Meteorological Service of Jamaica and the U.S. National Hurricane Center. […]
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Montana, October 27, 2025 (ENS) – Glacier National Park remains open to visitors during the current federal government shutdown, which a former superintendent said could lead to trash pileup, a lack of communication for visitors, and limited emergency response operations. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 21, 2025 (ENS) – The State of Massachusetts and the State of California have announced their intentions to join the nonprofit International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN. Based in Switzerland, the IUCN is the world’s largest and most diverse environmental membership network with 1,400 governments and non-governmental organizations committed to global action on biodiversity conservation. […]
EXETER, England, October 13, 2025 (ENS) – “The world has entered a new reality. Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°Celsius.” Warm-water coral reefs are dying across the planet as the world hits its first climate tipping point, finds a new report released today by the University of Exeter and dozens of international partners. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2025 (ENS) – On July 8, Congressman Nick Begich III, an Alaska Republican, introduced a draft bill amending the Marine Mammal Protection Act, MMPA, the federal law that has governed marine resource management and conservation of whales, orcas, porpoises, seals, polar bears, walruses, sea otters, and manatees in U.S. waters since 1972. […]
SALEM, Oregon, October 10, 2025 (ENS) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek this week signed an Executive Order accelerating renewable wind and solar project development in the state before time runs out on federal clean energy tax credits. Tax credits now on the table that are set to expire on July 4, 2026 can fund between 30 and 50 percent of most solar and wind projects, the governor said. […]
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, October 9, 2025 (ENS) – The world’s foremost international event centered on conserving nature opened today in Abu Dhabi. Held every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is convened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a nonprofit based near Geneva, Switzerland that tracks species survival on the IUCN Red List. […]
ROSELAND, Louisiana, October 9, 2025 (ENS) – On August 22, an explosion erupted at Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant manufacturing facility in Roseland, a town about 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge. The blaze swept through the 15-acre complex that housed half a million gallons of flammable materials. […]
WOOD-RIDGE, New Jersey, October 8, 2025 (ENS) – Decades of contamination with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl, known as PCB, are now on track to be cleaned up at the Berry’s Creek Study Area adjacent to Wood-Ridge in the Meadowlands of northeastern New Jersey, just 13 miles from New York City. […]
LOS ANGELES, California, October 1, 2025 (ENS) – Dr. Jane Goodall, famed chimpanzee scientist, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, died of natural causes Wednesday at the age of 91. Dr. Goodall died peacefully in her sleep while in Los Angeles for her speaking tour in the United States. She was considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees… […]
DILLARD, Oregon, September 25, 2025 (ENS) – An era in Oregon forest products is coming to an end. Roseburg Forest Products, a private company founded in 1936, has ceased operations […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 25, 2025 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is hosting a climate summit at the UN’s New York headquarters this week. The high-level week of the UN General Assembly is in full swing, and he is using the event to convince governments to elevate the level of ambition in their national climate pledges […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 18, 2025 (ENS) – The European Commission has presented its proposal to the European Council to suspend billions of euros in its trade-related provisions of the Association Agreement between the EU and Israel, as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen previewed in her State of the Union address on September 10. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2025 ENS – The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a complex system that serves both national and international reporting requirements to mitigate climate change, is being dismantled by the Trump administration. […]
“Forty years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer – guided by science, united in action,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today, in honor of the day in March 1985 when 28 nations agreed on the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the parent treaty behind the Montreal Protocol. […]
DENVER, Colorado, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Environmental justice and conservation groups today sounded the alarm over a backroom deal to avoid enforcement of key water permit provisions that was forged between the State of Colorado and the Suncor Energy – Commerce City Refinery, a petroleum refining facility in Commerce City, just northeast of Denver. […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have found a way to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable capture of the most abundant greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2 – addressing two major global challenges simultaneously – plastic pollution and the climate crisis. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 20, 2025 (ENS) – The High Seas Treaty has reached the 60 state ratifications needed to trigger its entry into force. Four governments this week ratified the legally-binding treaty at the United Nations – Sri Lanka, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sierra Leone and Morocco. […]
THE WEST BANK, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from the olive trees that have sustained his family for generations. Like thousands of Palestinian farmers, he faces growing restrictions from Israeli forces and settlers, who have made the olive harvest season – which runs from September to November – a time of uncertainty and struggle. […]
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