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- [Burning Plastic for Heating, Cooking, Poisons Poor Families](https://ens-newswire.com/burning-plastic-for-heating-cooking-poisons-poor-families/): A new study is shedding light on households in developing countries burning plastic as an everyday energy source, causing health and environmental concerns.
- [Hunger Stalks 68 Nations Due to Conflict, Disaster, Climate](https://ens-newswire.com/hunger-stalks-68-nations-due-to-conflict-disaster-climate/): Food insecurity threatening lives and livelihoods is on the rise in Afghanistan as winter closes in, warns WFP, the world’s largest humanitarian organization.
- [More Healthy Meals at School Would Advance Planetary Health](https://ens-newswire.com/more-healthy-meals-at-school-would-advance-planetary-health/): LONDON, UK, December 24, 2025 (ENS) - Today only one in five children in the world receives meals at school. Yet, healthy, sustainable school meals could "cut undernourishment, reduce diet-related deaths and lower environmental impacts," finds a new modelling study led by a professor at University College London. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Taiwan Opens 'TRE100' Green Energy Drive to Small Businesses](https://ens-newswire.com/taiwan-opens-tre100-green-energy-drive-to-small-businesses/): Taiwan's Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research launched the "TRE100" green energy initiative December 12, parallel to the global RE100 green energy drive.
- [Climate Talks Overcome Politics to Make Progress in Brazil](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-talks-overcome-politics-to-make-progress-in-brazil/): The annual UN Climate Change Conference met in the Brazilian city Belém in November. Delegates tripled funds for climate action & wrote a new Gender Action Plan.
- [Sub-Saharan Africa Suffers 24 Percent Biodiversity Decline](https://ens-newswire.com/sub-saharan-africa-suffers-24-percent-biodiversity-decline/): Plants and animals across sub-Saharan Africa have declined by 24 percent since preindustrial days. Large mammals like forest elephants have declined even more.
- [FEMA Disaster Prevention Funding Rescued by Court Ruling](https://ens-newswire.com/fema-disaster-prevention-funding-rescued-by-court-ruling/): Twenty states have won their lawsuit against the Trump administration for its attempt to shut a FEMA program that protects communities from natural disasters.
- [Polar Bear DNA Changing to Survive Warming Greenland](https://ens-newswire.com/polar-bear-dna-changing-to-survive-warming-greenland/): As the planet heats, polar bears in southeastern Greenland appear to be adjusting to warmer conditions, new research from the University of East Anglia shows.
- [Brazil Dismantles Hundreds of Illegal Gold Mining Dredges](https://ens-newswire.com/brazil-dismantles-hundreds-of-illegal-gold-mining-dredges/): In a blow to illegal gold miners along South America's Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges worth an estimated US$6.8 million.
- [KENTUCKY: Fatal Chronic Wasting Disease Spreads in Wild Deer](https://ens-newswire.com/kentucky-fatal-chronic-wasting-disease-spreads-in-wild-deer/): In Kentucky, a second wild deer has been confirmed with chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurologic disease that infects deer, elk and moose, but not people,
- [OREGON: Hazelnut Orchard Buy Could Save City Drinking Water](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-hazelnut-orchard-buy-could-save-city-drinking-water/): EUGENE, Oregon, October 31, 2025 (ENS) - The Upper Willamette Soil & Water Conservation District is planning to acquire a 200+ acre hazelnut orchard located on the lower McKenzie River to protect the drinking water of Eugene, a college city of 178,150 people that hosts the University of Oregon. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Trump Yanks EV Subsidies, EV Buying Slows, GM Finds New Road](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-yanks-ev-subsidies-ev-buying-slows-gm-finds-new-road/): In 2028 GM will introduce a vehicle computing platform for both electric and gas vehicles after President Trump stopped federal $7,500 EV subsidies on Sept. 1.
- [Hurricane Melissa Heads North Leaving Ruins Across Caribbean](https://ens-newswire.com/hurricane-melissa-heads-north-leaving-ruins-across-caribbean/): The death toll from Hurricane Melissa is up to 36 across Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba as residents begin to dig themselves out from the wreckage left by the storm
- [Jamaica Shudders Before Record-Breaking Hurricane Melissa](https://ens-newswire.com/jamaica-shudders-before-record-breaking-hurricane-melissa/): The eye of the "extremely dangerous" Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is blasting toward western Jamaica, bearing catastrophic winds, flash floods, and storm surge.
- [Visitors Face Shutdown Uncertainty Across US National Parks](https://ens-newswire.com/visitors-face-shutdown-uncertainty-across-us-national-parks/): Glacier National Park remains open to visitors during the current federal government shutdown, but a former superintendent warns of limited emergency response.
- [CALIF & MASS: Joining Global Conservation Organization](https://ens-newswire.com/calif-mass-joining-global-conservation-organization/): The State of Massachusetts and the State of California intend to join the nonprofit International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland,
- [1st Climate Tipping Point Plunges Planet Into 'New Reality'](https://ens-newswire.com/1st-climate-tipping-point-plunges-planet-into-new-reality/): Warm-water coral reefs are dying as the world hits its first climate tipping point, finds a new report from the University of Exeter and international partners.
- [Republicans Seek to Weaken U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act](https://ens-newswire.com/republicans-seek-to-weaken-u-s-marine-mammal-protection-act/): On July 8, Congressman Nick Begich III, an Alaska Republican, introduced an amendment to the Marine Mammal Protection Act that would remove core safeguards.
- [LOUISIANA: Oil, Soot From Smitty’s Fire Persists, EPA Blamed](https://ens-newswire.com/louisiana-oil-soot-from-smittys-fire-persists-epa-blamed/): On August 22, 2025, an explosion at lubricant manufacturer Smitty's Supply, set petrochemicals ablaze Residents say governments have failed in their response.
- [NEW JERSEY: Meadowlands Creek Mercury Cleanup Plan Approved](https://ens-newswire.com/new-jersey-meadowlands-creek-mercury-cleanup-plan-approved/): Decades of contamination with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls will soon be cleaned up on several adjacent Superfund sites in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
- [OREGON: Gov Cuts Red Tape to Secure Clean Energy Tax Credits](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-gov-cuts-red-tape-to-secure-clean-energy-tax-credits/): Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has signed an Executive Order streamlining wind and solar project development before federal clean energy tax credits expire in 2026.
- [Planetary Rehab Rules at IUCN World Conservation Congress](https://ens-newswire.com/planetary-rehab-rules-at-iucn-world-conservation-congress/): Decision makers from government, civil society, youth, Indigenous peoples, academia and business are shaping the future at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.
- [Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee Expert and Advocate, Dies at 91](https://ens-newswire.com/jane-goodall-chimpanzee-expert-and-advocate-dies-at-91/): Dr. Jane Goodall, famed chimpanzee scientist, founder of Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace, died of natural causes Oct. 1, 2025, at the age of 91.
- [OREGON: Roseburg Forest Products Drops Hardwood Plywood](https://ens-newswire.com/roseburg-forest-products-ends-hardwood-plywood-production/): An era in Oregon forest products is closing. Roseburg Forest Products, founded in 1936, is leaving the hardwood plywood market to focus on its other products.
- [100+ Countries Pledge Action at UN Climate Ambition Summit](https://ens-newswire.com/100-countries-pledge-action-at-un-climate-ambition-summit/): UN chief Antonio Guterres is hosting the Climate Ambition Summit in New York today, using the day to convince nations to elevate their national climate pledges.
- [Update: Oceans Beyond Borders Treaty Prepares for Launch](https://ens-newswire.com/oceans-beyond-borders-high-seas-treaty-prepares-for-kickoff/): 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. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [EU to Suspend Billions in Core Trade Concessions with Israel](https://ens-newswire.com/eu-to-suspend-billions-in-core-trade-concessions-with-israel/): European Commission wants to suspend billions of euros in trade with Israel, and impose sanctions on Hamas, extremist Israeli ministers, and violent settlers.
- [Trump Demolishes U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-demolishes-u-s-greenhouse-gas-reporting-program/): The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas releases to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by emitters is being dismantled by the Trump administration.
- [Protecting Earth's Protective Ozone Layer: A Success Story](https://ens-newswire.com/protecting-earths-protective-ozone-layer-a-success-story/): "The Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol became a landmark of multilateral success. Today, the ozone layer is healing," said UN chief Antonio Guterres.
- [COLORADO: Backroom Deal Lets Suncor Avoid Water Permit Rules](https://ens-newswire.com/colorado-backroom-deal-lets-suncor-avoid-water-permit-rules/): Conservation groups are alarmed over a deal that allows water permit ruls between the State of Colorado and the state's only petroleum refinery to be ignored.
- [Chemists Transform Plastic Trash Into Climate Solution](https://ens-newswire.com/chemists-transform-plastic-trash-into-climate-solution/): Scientists at the U. of Copenhagen have converted plastic waste into a CO2 capture solution, tackling two global issues - plastics and the climate - at once
- [West Bank Farmers 'Cut Off' from Their Heritage Olive Trees](https://ens-newswire.com/west-bank-farmers-cut-off-from-their-heritage-olive-trees/): In an occupied West Bank village, Yousef stands behind a gate, cut off from his family's olive trees. Attacks hinder Palestinian farmers’ work and way of life.
- [Giraffes Reclassified to Four Distinct Species, Not Just One](https://ens-newswire.com/giraffes-reclassified-to-four-distinct-species-not-just-one/): A new assessment of giraffes has officially recognized four distinct species, all in Africa, overturning prior classifications of giraffes as a single species.
- [2,205 Dead in Afghanistan Quake, Survivors Need Everything](https://ens-newswire.com/2205-dead-in-afghanistan-quake-survivors-need-everything/): The death toll from a 6.0 earthquake in Afghanistan last Sunday has nearly doubled to 2,205 and the number of injured stands at 3,640. Rescue efforts are ongoing
- [3 Western States Form Scientific Alliance for Vaccine Access](https://ens-newswire.com/3-western-states-form-scientific-alliance-for-vaccine-access/): The governors of California, Oregon, and Washington are launching a new West Coast Health Alliance for vaccine access based on scientific facts, not politics.
- [Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Jail Shut in 60 Days](https://ens-newswire.com/judge-orders-alligator-alcatraz-migrant-jail-shut-in-60-days/): Federal judge orders the State of Florida and the Trump government to halt construction, stop bringing migrants and wind down Alligator Alcatraz by October 20.
- [World's First Plastics Treaty Agreement Proves Elusive](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-first-plastics-treaty-agreement-proves-elusive/): You want a deal," Inger Andersen, head of UNEP, told delegates Friday as the latest talks to forge a treaty on plastic pollution closed without agreement.
- [U.S. EPA Deletes Research Office, Fires Scientific Leaders](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-epa-deletes-research-office-fires-scientific-leaders/): The U.S. EPA is firing and retiring thousands of workers as part of its "comprehensive restructuring efforts" by closing its Office of Research and Development.
- [Thirsty, 'Starving Axis Deer' Ravaging Hawaiian Islands](https://ens-newswire.com/thirsty-starving-axis-deer-ravaging-hawaiian-islands/): Hawaii Governor Josh Green, MD, declared an emergency due to the overpopulation of axis deer plus ongoing drought on Maui two weeks ago. It was his 22nd time.
- [World's Largest Dam Breaks Ground on Tibet's Longest River](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-largest-dam-breaks-ground-on-tibets-longest-river/): The world is about to get a new giant hydroelectric project. The groundbreaking was held in Linzhi City, Tibet, on July 19, 2025 with Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
- [SA's New Live-animal Export Rules: Just Window Dressing?](https://ens-newswire.com/sas-new-live-animal-export-rules-just-window-dressing/): South Africa's Agriculture Dept. has released draft rules on the export of live animals by sea, which exposes sheep, cattle and goats to prolonged suffering.
- [Quake, Eruption in Russia's Far East Shakes Pacific Ocean](https://ens-newswire.com/quake-eruption-in-russias-far-east-shakes-pacific-ocean/): A tsunami alert for Hawaii was lifted after an earthquake off Russia’s Pacific coast put the region on high alert. Residents and visitors held their breath....
- [CALIFORNIA: Conserves Record Levels of Lands, Coastal Waters](https://ens-newswire.com/california-conserves-record-levels-of-lands-coastal-waters/): California has protected over one million acres of land and coastal waters since mid-2024, an area roughly equal to that of Glacier National Park in Montana.
- [Above-normal 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Looms](https://ens-newswire.com/above-normal-2025-atlantic-hurricane-season-looms/): NOAA’s outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season from June 1 to Nov. 30 predicts a 60% chance of an above-normal season with up to five major hurricanes.
- [Salvadoran Lawyer Arrested After Defending Deported Venezuelans](https://ens-newswire.com/salvadoran-lawyer-arrested-after-defending-deported-venezuelans/): The lawyer of a Salvadoran human rights group representing families of Venezuelan immigrants imprisoned in El Salvador after U.S. deportation has been arrested.
- [Hawaiian Scientists Find Biggest Boom Since The Big Bang](https://ens-newswire.com/hawaiian-scientists-find-biggest-boom-since-the-big-bang/): Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i have found the most energetic cosmic explosions yet discovered - massive stars torn apart by giant black holes.
- [Whole Milk, Plant Milks Welcomed Into U.S. Schools](https://ens-newswire.com/whole-milk-plant-milks-welcomed-into-u-s-schools/): A U.S. Senate committee has approved a bill that will make it easy for students to access nondairy milk options in schools: the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act.
- [Congress Kills California Waivers for Clean Truck, Car Rules](https://ens-newswire.com/congress-kills-california-waivers-for-clean-truck-car-rules/): WASHINGTON, DC, June 1, 2025 (ENS) - President Donald Trump is expected to sign two Congressional resolutions that will revoke the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency waivers from federal standards for California car and truck emissions rules. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Trump Sued on Plan to Commercialize Pacific Islands Monument](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-sued-on-plan-to-commercialize-pacific-islands-monument/): President Donald Trump has signed an order stripping protections from the Pacific Islands Marine Heritage National Monument in favor of commercial interests.
- [NEW JERSEY: 3M to Pay $450 Million in Forever Chemicals Case](https://ens-newswire.com/new-jersey-3m-to-pay-450-million-in-forever-chemicals-case/): The 3M company will pay $450 million for damages to New Jersey's natural resources from PFAS, called forever chemicals because they persist in the environment,
- [Dormant but Deadly: the New Middle East Landmine Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/dormant-but-deadly-the-new-middle-east-landmine-crisis/): Communities and families returning home after the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria last December, must face landmines and unexploded ordnance.
- [Perfumes, Lotions Suppress Human Protective Air Shield](https://ens-newswire.com/perfumes-lotions-suppress-human-protective-air-shield/): Perfumes, colognes, even unscented lotions alter the human oxidation field, suppressing the natural air shield around a person’s breathing zone and skin.
- [World-First Global Pandemic Pact 'Victory for Public Health'](https://ens-newswire.com/world-first-global-pandemic-pact-victory-for-public-health/): The first Pandemic Agreement in the world was formally adopted by consensus by the Member States of the World Health Organization, WHO on May 20, 2025.
- [Pangolins, Elephants: Crime Networks Wiping Out Wild Africa](https://ens-newswire.com/pangolins-elephants-crime-networks-wiping-out-wild-africa/): Wildlife trafficking across southern Africa is a tangled web of corruption, organized crime and system failures eroding conservation efforts, feeding smuggling.
- [Virgin Raw Materials Clog Landfills in Weak Circular Economy](https://ens-newswire.com/virgin-raw-materials-clog-landfills-in-weak-circular-economy/): May has become the month for advancing a global circular economy with many events and conferences to inspire greater recycling and reuse of industrial waste.
- [U.S. EPA Chief Zeldin Backs Off Biden PFAS Clean Water Rules](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-epa-chief-zeldin-backs-off-biden-pfas-clean-water-rules/): The Trump administration is rolling back protections for American drinking water from six 'forever chemicals,' linked to lower fertility and higher cancer risk.
- [Trump's Energy Dept. Dumps Regulations in 47 Different Ways](https://ens-newswire.com/trumps-energy-dept-dumps-regulations-in-47-different-ways/): The U.S. Energy Dept is proposing the elimination or reduction of 47 regulations that it claims are driving up costs and lowering quality of life for Americans.
- [Methane Emissions Far Too High: International Energy Agency](https://ens-newswire.com/methane-emissions-far-too-high-international-energy-agency/): Methane emissions from fossil fuels remain at high levels and can be seen from space, finds the International Energy Agency's latest global tracking update.
- [European Union Ending Dependence on Russian Energy](https://ens-newswire.com/european-union-ending-dependence-on-russian-energy/): 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.
- [Kruger Park: 84 Vultures Saved in Shocking, Gruesome Incident](https://ens-newswire.com/kruger-park-84-vultures-saved-in-shocking-gruesome-incident/): More than 80 vultures were rescued after poisoning in South Africa's Kruger National Park, but dozens died from eating a deliberately poisoned elephant carcass.
- [President Trump's First 100 Days = Environmental Destruction](https://ens-newswire.com/president-trumps-first-100-days-environmental-destruction/): President Donald J. Trump began his second term January 20, 2025. His 100th day in office was April 30, 2025. This chronology tracks his environmental actions.
- ["Our Power, Our Planet" Earth Day Theme Champions Renewables](https://ens-newswire.com/our-power-our-planet-earth-day-theme-champions-renewables/): WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2025 (ENS) - Today, on the 55th anniversary of Earth Day, polls confirm that the great majority of Americans support increasing investment in renewables and the immediate deployment of all forms of renewable energy. This year’s Earth Day theme is the aspirational slogan, "Our Power, Our Planet." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Myanmar Quake Kills 3,700, Survivors Lack Food, Water, Shelter](https://ens-newswire.com/myanmar-quake-kills-3700-survivors-lack-food-water-shelter/): Military attacks continue in Myanmar despite ceasefires declared after a 7.7 earthquake that killed 3,700 people, the UN human rights office said Friday.
- [Butterflies: Magnificent Victims of Intense Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/butterflies-magnificent-victims-of-intense-climate-change/): Climate change is altering butterfly habitats, turning their species-rich, mountain refuges into traps, finds new research by U.S. and German scientists.
- [Three States Ban Petrochemical Food Dyes and Preservatives](https://ens-newswire.com/three-states-ban-petrochemical-food-dyes-and-preservatives/): West Virginia, where the state's residents experience high rates of preventable deaths, adopted a ban on seven chemical food dyes and preservatives this week.
- [Greenpeace Fined $660 Million in Dakota Access Pipeline Case](https://ens-newswire.com/greenpeace-fined-660-million-in-dakota-access-pipeline-case/): A North Dakota jury found Greenpeace liable Wednesday for more than US$660 million in damages over protests against Energy Transfer's Dakota Access Pipeline.
- [Conservationists Shocked by Death of Top SA Cheetah Scientist](https://ens-newswire.com/conservationists-shocked-by-death-of-top-sa-cheetah-scientist/): Renowned South African cheetah conservationist and National Geographic Explorer Vincent van der Merwe took his own life in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 16, 2025.
- [NEW YORK: Invests $1 Billion in Climate Action, Nuclear Power](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-invests-1-billion-in-climate-action-nuclear-power/): New York Governor Kathy Hochul will invest $1B in renewables and nuclear, the single largest climate investment in New York State history, slashing emissions.
- [Trump EPA Chief Zeldin Brags: 'EPA Ends the ‘Green New Scam'](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-epa-chief-zeldin-brags-epa-ends-the-green-new-scam/): U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has taken 31 actions to destroy the American system of environmental protections across the country built by past EPA actions.
- [Russian Captain Charged with Manslaughter in North Sea Crash](https://ens-newswire.com/russian-captain-charged-with-manslaughter-in-north-sea-crash/): British police filed manslaughter charges against the Russian captain of a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship that struck a U.S. military tanker in the North Sea.
- [GEORGIA: Cleanup of Lead-Poisoned Atlanta Park Begins](https://ens-newswire.com/georgia-cleanup-of-lead-poisoned-atlanta-park-begins/): Lindsay Street Park in the English Avenue neighborhood of Atlanta is being cleansed of the lead-contaminated soil from lead foundries that once operated there.
- [365 Suspects Busted for Wildlife, Timber Trafficking](https://ens-newswire.com/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. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Firm Pays HK Conglomerate $23B for Panama Canal Ports](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-company-buys-panama-canal-from-chinese-conglomerate/): In a US$23 billion deal, the Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings will sell all shares in Panama Canal ports to a U.S. consortium including BlackRock.
- [Innovative Biosensor, Vaccine Help Farmers Cope With Bird Flu](https://ens-newswire.com/innovative-biosensor-vaccine-help-farmers-cope-with-bird-flu/): A new low-cost sensor that detects airborne H5N1 avian flu in under five minutes, and a new vaccine approval sound good as bird flu spreads across the USA.
- [Ukraine Recovery, Reconstruction Needs Total US$524 Billion](https://ens-newswire.com/ukraine-recovery-reconstruction-needs-total-us524-billion/): KYIV, Ukraine, March 3, 2025 (ENS) - After three years of Russia's unprovoked attacks on its neighbor, Ukraine, the estimated cost of Ukraine's reconstruction and recovery over the next decade is US4 billion (€506 billion) - a figure 2.8 times the total market value of all goods and services produced in Ukraine for the year %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Indigenous Malaysians Celebrate Timber Company Withdrawal](https://ens-newswire.com/indigenous-malaysians-celebrate-timber-company-withdrawal/): Indigenous people defending their customary lands on the island of Borneo are celebrating. Samling Timber Malaysia has withdrawn some of its timber concessions.
- [NEW MEXICO: Sinclair Refinery Must Cut Emissions, EPA Decrees](https://ens-newswire.com/new-mexico-sinclair-refinery-must-cut-emissions-epa-decrees/): The U.S. Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Environment Department have announced a proposed $35 million settlement with HF Sinclair Navajo Refining LLC, resolving alleged Clean Air Act and New Mexico Air Quality Control Act violations
- [Germany Tackles Environmental Crimes Ahead of Election](https://ens-newswire.com/germany-tackles-environmental-crimes-ahead-of-election/): Germany's Environment Ministry, the nonprofit WWF Germany, and the international police force Interpol are cooperating to stop criminals destroying nature.
- [NEW JERSEY: CPA Imprisoned in Conservation Easement Tax Crime](https://ens-newswire.com/new-jersey-cpa-imprisoned-in-conservation-easement-tax-crime/): An accountant was imprisoned today in a tax shelter crime for $1.3 billion in fraudulent tax deductions worth over $400 million in total tax loss to the IRS.
- ['Builders, Skeptics' Invited to SEC's New Crypto Task Force](https://ens-newswire.com/builders-skeptics-invited-to-secs-new-crypto-task-force/): The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has created a Crypto Task Force to carry out the agency’s new crypto regulatory agenda in the 2nd Trump term.
- [Oceans Endure Repeated Heat Attacks](https://ens-newswire.com/oceans-endure-repeated-heat-attacks/): Ocean warming in 2024 produced the hottest ocean temperatures ever recorded by humans, not only at the surface but also for the upper 2,000 meters (1.24 miles).
- [First Trump Orders Expose Earth to Ravages of Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/first-trump-orders-expose-earth-to-ravages-of-climate-change/): In President Donald J. Trump's first 5 days in office, he changed the U.S. position on climate change and fossil fuels in ways that can affect the whole planet.
- [Santa Ana Winds Whip Los Angeles Fires: Death Toll: 24](https://ens-newswire.com/two-die-thousands-flee-fierce-southern-california-wildfires/): Firefighters have made progress against wildfires that have blazed for days, leveling parts of Los Angeles and causing thousands of terrified residents to flee.
- [Los Angeles Ablaze But Congress Ignores Controlled Burn Law](https://ens-newswire.com/los-angeles-ablaze-but-congress-ignores-controlled-burn-law/): The National Prescribed Fire Act was introduced for the third time in May 2024, but this bipartisan version died as fires burned. Congress never voted on it.
- [Paraguay Leads Tri-Nation Crackdown on Illegal Deforestation](https://ens-newswire.com/paraguay-leads-tri-nation-crackdown-on-illegal-deforestation/): BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, January 6, 2025 (ENS) - Authorities in Paraguay have arrested 26 individuals, and they have identified two criminal networks and 12 companies suspected of illegal deforestation and the trafficking of native tree species from the South American country. Led by Paraguay and coordinated by the international police force Interpol, Operation Panthera Onca, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden Invests $850M to Slash Oil and Gas Methane Emissions](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-invests-850m-to-slash-oil-and-gas-methane-emissions/): WASHINGTON, DC, December 21, 2024 (ENS) - In one of the last actions of the outgoing Biden-Harris Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy will invest 0 million for 43 projects that will help small oil and gas operators, Tribes, and others across the country to reduce, monitor, measure, and %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ENS Joy to the World 2024 Holiday Message](https://ens-newswire.com/rainbow-tree-holiday-message/): ENS Welcomes 2025 With Wishes for PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TOWARDS ALL Rainbow tree, Japanese Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Oregon, USA. (Photo credit unknown) %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [PENNSYLVANIA: Oil Producers Agree With EPA to Cut Emissions](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-oil-producers-agree-with-epa-to-cut-emissions/): PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, December 3, 2024 (ENS) - The U.S. Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have reached settlements with oil and gas operators in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to resolve alleged federal Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations. In separate settlements, XTO Energy Inc. agreed to pay a %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Cries the World Must Hear, Crises the World Can Halt in 2025](https://ens-newswire.com/cries-the-world-must-hear-crises-the-world-can-halt-in-2025/): NEW YORK, New York, December 14, 2024 (ENS) - Again this year, as it does every year, the New York-based nonprofit International Rescue Committee has issued an Emergency Watchlist spotlighting the countries most likely to face growing humanitarian crises in the year ahead. Sudan tops the 2025 list of emergencies, followed closely by the Occupied %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Whale Defender Watson Freed, Denmark Rejects Handover to Japan](https://ens-newswire.com/whale-defender-watson-freed-denmark-rejects-handover-to-japan/): "Whale Wars" star Paul Watson, the Canadian-American whale conservationist is a free man today after150 days in prison in the Danish territory of Greenland.
- [Lengthy Air Pollution Exposure Tied to Deep Vein Blood Clots](https://ens-newswire.com/lengthy-air-pollution-exposure-tied-to-deep-vein-blood-clots/): A 17-year study shows exposure to long-term air pollution in six U.S. cities is linked with increased risk for blood clots in deep veins that can cause death.
- [MASSACHUSETTS: Nantucket Fights New Offshore Wind Permit](https://ens-newswire.com/massachusetts-nantucket-fights-new-offshore-wind-permit/): The U.S. EPA has issued a draft air quality permit to Southcoast Wind LLC allowing construction and operation of 147 wind turbines off Nantucket, Massachusetts.
- [Climate Finance Goal Tripled to $300 Billion a Year by 2035](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-finance-goal-tripled-to-300-billion-a-year-by-2035/): Tensions at COP29, UN's Climate Change Conference in Baku, resolved as governments agreed on a new collective annual climate finance goal that triples the current US$100 billion a year goal under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
- [EPA Attacks Forever Chemicals, Emerging Contaminants in Water](https://ens-newswire.com/epa-attacks-forever-chemicals-emerging-contaminants-in-water/): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today launched a new, no-cost technical assistance effort focused on reducing exposure to forever chemicals in water.
- [Biden Offers $45 Million to Slash EV Battery Recycling Costs](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-offers-45-million-to-slash-ev-battery-recycling-costs/): The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $44.8 million in funding for eight projects to lower costs of recycling end-of-life electric vehicle batteries.
- [COP29: World Governments, NGOs, Negotiate to Cool the Planet](https://ens-newswire.com/cop29-world-governments-ngos-negotiate-to-cool-the-planet/): World leaders and climate negotiators are meeting in Baku for the 2024 United Nations climate conference, COP29, where climate finance is central to the talks.
- [U.S. EPA Slaps Fee on Wasteful Methane Emissions](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-epa-slaps-fee-on-wasteful-methane-emissions/): The greenhouse gas methane causes a third of Earth's warming. Now U.S. EPA will reduce methane emissions from oil and gas by charging a fee for waste emissions.
- [Future of Earth's Diverse Species Under Negotiation in Cali](https://ens-newswire.com/future-of-earths-diverse-species-under-negotiation-in-cali/): The United Nations biodiversity summit, COP16, opened in Colombia on October 20. Negotiating countries are seeking to safeguard Earth's variety of life forms.
- [Big Meat Recall Affects 200 Products Sold at Major Retailers](https://ens-newswire.com/big-meat-recall-affects-200-products-sold-at-major-retailers/): Some 12 million pounds of precooked processed meat and chicken found in salads and frozen foods sold at major retailers are being recalled over listeria fears.
- [USA to Replace All Lead Water Pipes Within 10 Years](https://ens-newswire.com/usa-to-replace-all-lead-water-pipes-within-10-years/): WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2024 (ENS) - To reduce the poisonous contamination of lead in American drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday issued the long-awaited final Lead and Copper Rule Improvements measure. As a practical matter, this means proactive replacement of lead service lines nationwide within the next 10 years. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [PENNSYLVANIA: Three Mile Island Will Restart to Power Microsoft](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-three-mile-island-will-restart-to-power-microsoft/): Under a new deal with Constellation, Microsoft will purchase carbon-free energy from a rebuilt reactor at Three Mile Island for 20 years to power data centers.
- [Harris-Trump Disconnect on Climate Is Glaring](https://ens-newswire.com/harris-trump-disconnect-on-climate-is-glaring/): Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democrats and former President Donald Trump for the Republicans couldn't be farther apart on climate issues.
- [Dockworkers & Ports Agree to Pause Strike Until January 2025](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-dockworkers-strike-stalls-shipments-from-maine-to-texas/): Seeking better wages and benefits, the International Longshoremen's Association on strike worries that automation will eliminate jobs. They may be too late.
- [Hurricane Helene Death Toll Above 200, US Southeast Devastated](https://ens-newswire.com/hurricane-helene-kills-30-leaves-southeastern-usa-in-ruins/): Hurricane Helene blasted across the southern US last night as a deadly Category 4 Hurricane. Amid flooding, storm surges and power outages, 175 lives were lost.
- [General Motors Signs Solar Deal for Three Assembly Plants](https://ens-newswire.com/general-motors-signs-solar-deal-for-three-assembly-plants/): General Motors has announced a 15-year solar energy purchase agreement for three vehicle assembly plants with NorthStar Clean Energy, part of CMS Energy based in Jackson, Michigan.
- [China Welcomes Outside Scientists at 12 Nuclear Facilities](https://ens-newswire.com/china-welcomes-outside-scientists-at-12-nuclear-facilities/): China is opening 12 nuclear research facilities to international scientists and institutions, to build its profile as a global leader in nuclear science.
- [PUERTO RICO: Two Jailed for Destroying Wetlands in Jobos Bay](https://ens-newswire.com/puerto-rico-two-jailed-for-destroying-wetlands-in-jobos-bay/): SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, September 20, 2024 (ENS) - It was an unlucky Friday the 13th last week for two Puerto Rican men who were sentenced for their destruction, removal and fill of protected wetlands in Puerto Rico in violation of the Clean Water Act. U.S. District Court Judge Gina Mendez-Miro for the District of %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MARYLAND: U.S. Sues Owner of Baltimore Bridge Ship for $100M](https://ens-newswire.com/maryland-u-s-sues-owner-of-baltimore-bridge-ship-for-100m/): BALTIMORE, Maryland, September 18, 2024 (ENS) - The U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil claim in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against Grace Ocean Private Ltd and Synergy Marine Private Ltd, the Singaporean companies that owned and operated the Motor Vessel DALI, the container ship that destroyed the Francis Scott %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World Health Organization Asks $135 Million to Defeat Mpox](https://ens-newswire.com/world-health-organization-asks-135-million-to-defeat-mpox/): GENEVA, Switzerland, August 23, 2024 (ENS) - The current mpox outbreak "can be controlled and can be stopped," the leader of the World Health Organization, WHO, emphasized on Friday, announcing an action plan that calls for US5 million over the next six months. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Deb Haaland Brings the Turquoise Clan to the DNC Stage](https://ens-newswire.com/deb-haaland-brings-the-turquoise-clan-to-the-dnc-stage/): CHICAGO, Illinois, August 22, 2024 (ENS) - Deb Haaland brought Indigeneity front and center at the Democratic National Convention on its final night in a speech that presented the case for environmental protections. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Awards First Offshore Wind Research Lease to Maine](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-awards-first-offshore-wind-research-lease-to-maine/): The first U.S. floating offshore wind energy research lease on the US Outer Continental Shelf goes to the State of Maine over protests by the lobster industry.
- [Health Risk to Fetuses Prompts EPA to Ban Toxic Weed Killer](https://ens-newswire.com/health-risk-to-fetuses-prompts-epa-to-ban-toxic-weed-killer/): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is suspending all registrations of the pesticide Dacthal, DCPA, warning of health risks to babies in the womb.
- [Mass Coral Bleaching Devastates the Great Barrier Reef](https://ens-newswire.com/mass-coral-bleaching-devastates-the-great-barrier-reef/): Warming sea temperatures and repeated mass coral bleaching events are threatening to destroy the ecology, biodiversity, and beauty of the Great Barrier Reef.
- [WASHINGTON: Solar Farm Planned at Old Plutonium Weapons Site](https://ens-newswire.com/washington-solar-farm-planned-at-old-plutonium-weapons-site/): RICHLAND, Washington, August 6, 2024 (ENS) - The U.S. Department of Energy is entering negotiations with a Chicago corporation to build one of the largest solar and battery storage energy projects in the nation at the site where plutonium-powered nuclear weapons for the Cold War were made - the Hanford site in southeastern Washington. “Since %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IDAHO: Tampering with Diesel Emissions Controls Draws $1M Fine](https://ens-newswire.com/idaho-tampering-with-diesel-emissions-controls-draws-1m-fine/): POCATELLO, Idaho, August 1, 2024 (ENS) - A million dollar fine was imposed Tuesday on diesel performance parts retailers GDP Tuning LLC and Custom Auto of Rexburg LLC, doing business as Gorilla Performance, and owner Barry Pierce by a federal court in Pocatello. The companies and Pierce had previously pleaded guilty. Senior U.S. District Court %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson Arrested at Japan's Request](https://ens-newswire.com/anti-whaling-activist-paul-watson-arrested-at-japans-request/): Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation was arrested by Greenland police.
- [NORTH DAKOTA: Illegal Emissions Cost Marathon Oil $241.5 Million](https://ens-newswire.com/north-dakota-illegal-emissions-cost-marathon-oil-241-5-million/): BISMARK, North Dakota, July 15, 2024 (ENS) - The U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency have announced a settlement with Marathon Oil Company resolving Clean Air Act violations at the company’s oil and gas production operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central-western North Dakota. The settlement requires that Marathon pay a civil %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- ['Light of the World' to Be Solar Powered at the Vatican](https://ens-newswire.com/light-of-the-world-to-be-solar-powered-at-the-vatican/): The Vatican is going solar. The Holy See will use land outside Rome that it already owns to construct an agrivoltaic plant to power the entire city-state.
- [Climate Change Scorches USA; Extreme Heat Grips 100 Million](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-change-scorches-usa-extreme-heat-grips-100-million/): Data compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its 5th edition of "Climate change indicators in the United States," shows heat deaths increasing.
- [Earliest Major Hurricane, Beryl Bludgeons Caribbean, USA Next](https://ens-newswire.com/earliest-major-hurricane-beryl-bludgeons-caribbean-usa-next/): Hurricane Beryl has killed at least 22 people and left ruin behind as it spins westward across the Caribbean Sea from Jamaica toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
- [SCOTUS Decisions Cancel, Imperil Environmental Protections](https://ens-newswire.com/scotus-decisions-cancel-imperil-environmental-protections/): The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today in favor of Corner Post, Inc., and other rulings issued last week, alter rules for challenging federal agency actions,
- ['Vicious Cycle' of Wildfires Accelerates Global Warming](https://ens-newswire.com/vicious-cycle-of-wildfires-accelerates-global-warming/): HOBART, Tasmania, Australia, June 25, 2024 (ENS) - Extreme wildfires have more than doubled in frequency and intensity over the past 21 years, according to a global study from the Fire Centre in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Half the World Obeys Doctors’ Orders to Replace Trans Fats](https://ens-newswire.com/half-the-world-obeys-doctors-orders-to-replace-trans-fats/): GENEVA, Switzerland, June 24, 2024 (ENS) - Ridding foods of dangerous industrial trans fats requires country-wide best practice policies, and nearly half the world has adopted those policies finds a research report issued by the UN World Health Organization today. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Dirty Air Kills 8.1 Million in a Year, Kids at Greatest Risk](https://ens-newswire.com/dirty-air-kills-8-1-million-in-a-year-kids-at-greatest-risk/): Air pollution is increasingly impacting human health, finds the State of Global Air report. It warned today that air pollution accounted for 8.1M deaths in 2021.
- [Paris Olympic Torch Brightens UNESCO World Heritage Sites](https://ens-newswire.com/paris-olympic-torch-brightens-unesco-world-heritage-sites/): The Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay illumines Europe's finest environments as the torch visits 30 protected UNESCO World Heritage natural and cultural sites.
- [GEORGIA: CPAs Guilty of Conservation Easement Tax Crimes](https://ens-newswire.com/georgia-cpas-guilty-of-conservation-easement-tax-crimes/): The sale of syndicated conservation easement tax shelters has led to a guilty plea from another Georgia CPA for crimes involving $15+ million over five years.
- [High Cost of Living Stalls Manhattan Traffic Congestion Toll](https://ens-newswire.com/high-cost-of-living-stalls-manhattan-traffic-congestion-toll/): Manhattan's congestion pricing was scheduled to go into effect on June 30, 2024, final arrangements were being made. But on Friday, just 25 days before tolling was to start, Governor Hochul slammed on the brakes. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [VIRGINIA: Lab Animal Breeder Fined $35M for Abuse, Pollution](https://ens-newswire.com/virginia-lab-animal-breeder-fined-35m-for-abuse-pollution/): A firm that provides laboratory animals for research, Envigo RMS LLC, pleaded guilty to conspiring violate the Animal Welfare Act and the Clean Water Act.
- [Brazilian Floods Expose Survivors to Waterborne Disease](https://ens-newswire.com/brazilian-floods-expose-survivors-to-waterborne-disease/): Rio Grande do Sul authorities confirm 54 cases of the waterborne disease leptospirosis after the region, in southern Brazil, had record floods in April and May.
- [Record Ocean Heat Generates Active Atlantic Hurricane Season](https://ens-newswire.com/record-ocean-heat-generates-active-atlantic-hurricane-season/): There is an 85 percent chance that the countries and U.S. states bordering the Atlantic Ocean are in for a difficult "above-normal" hurricane season this year.
- [Dementia Risk Rises as Air Pollution Inflames the Brain](https://ens-newswire.com/dementia-risk-rises-as-air-pollution-inflames-the-brain/): Air pollution increases dementia risk, new research from the University of Copenhagen indicates. Scientists followed nurses for 27 years, from 1993 until 2020.
- [ALABAMA: Lowndes County Residents to Get Modern Sanitation](https://ens-newswire.com/alabama-lowndes-county-residents-to-get-modern-sanitation/): MONTGOMERY, Alabama, May 19, 2024 (ENS) - The U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, are proclaiming progress has been made by the Alabama Department of Public Health in providing access to basic sanitation services for the majority Black communities of Lowndes County, Alabama. These basic services are intended to %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [OHIO: Truck Emissions Defeat Device Installer Imprisoned](https://ens-newswire.com/ohio-truck-emissions-defeat-device-installer-imprisoned/): CINNCINATI, Ohio, May 19, 2024 (ENS) - Bypassing a vehicle’s emissions components can increase airborne particulate matter up to 40 times, nitrogen oxides 310 times, carbon monoxide 120 times, and non-methane hydrocarbons 1,100 times, a range of recent peer-reviewed research papers and books has shown. A Hamilton County, Ohio man operating a diesel truck repair %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [EU Hosts Global Ocean Meetings, Sets Goals, Raises Billions](https://ens-newswire.com/eu-hosts-global-ocean-meetings-sets-goals-raises-billions/): BARCELONA, Spain, May 5, 2024 (ENS) - The 2024 Ocean Decade Conference, held in Barcelona from April 10 to 12, attracted over 1,500 participants from 124 countries and thousands of online viewers. Under the theme "The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want," this conference emerged as one of the largest-ever gatherings of the global oceanic community. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [OHIO: Trumpeter Swans Removed from Threatened Species List](https://ens-newswire.com/ohio-trumpeter-swans-removed-from-threatened-species-list/): The Ohio Wildlife Council has voted to remove the trumpeter swan from the state’s threatened species list. The delisting crowns a 28-year effort by the state..
- [Heatwave Multiplies Gaza's Misery, Hunger,  Disease Risk](https://ens-newswire.com/heatwave-multiplies-gazas-misery-hunger-and-disease-risk/): The blazing heat across Gaza has magnified the misery faced by displaced people and renewed fears of disease for lack of clean water and waste disposal.
- [Limits on PFAS in Drinking Water to Benefit 100M Americans](https://ens-newswire.com/limits-on-pfas-in-drinking-water-to-benefit-100m-americans/): The U.S. EPA has issued the first national legally enforceable drinking water standard to protect communities from exposure to carcinogenic "forever chemicals."
- [OREGON: Vandal Poisons Thousands of Young Hatchery Salmon](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-vandal-poisons-thousands-of-young-hatchery-salmon/): A vandal killed nearly 18,000 young salmon at an Oregon fish hatchery Monday, fish that would have contributed to the lower Umpqua River fall Chinook fishery.
- [Earth Day: Biden Expands Climate Corps, Offers Solar for All](https://ens-newswire.com/earth-day-biden-expands-climate-corps-offers-solar-for-all/): Celebrating Earth Day, President Joe Biden unveiled the first jobs rollout under his new American Climate Corps and announced $7 billion in solar energy grants.
- [It's Wild Horses vs Livestock on U.S. Public Lands](https://ens-newswire.com/its-wild-horses-vs-livestock-on-u-s-public-lands/): LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 3, 2024 (ENS) - "The whir of helicopter blades deafens the peaceful swish of sagebrush. Hundreds of hooves descend upon the baking Western foothills: sweat and blood and death staining the grass for miles before the stampede is funneled into a crowded pen. Captives’ cries echo across trailer bars as close-knit %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [VIRGINIA: Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Gets Final Permit](https://ens-newswire.com/virginia-largest-us-offshore-wind-farm-gets-final-permit/): Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial, CVOW-C, project off Virginia Beach, has won its final Clean Air Act Outer Continental Shelf permit.
- [Advanced Atomic Particle Collider Going Up on Long Island](https://ens-newswire.com/advanced-atomic-particle-collider-going-up-on-long-island/): A cutting-edge Electron-Ion Collider, which tracks the structure and behavior of atomic particles, will be built at Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island, NY.
- [Off the Rez: S. Dakota Governor Banned From 10% of Her State](https://ens-newswire.com/off-the-rez-s-dakota-governor-banned-from-10-of-her-state/): Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council has banished South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem from its reservation after her "racially-charged" public comments in March.
- [Elderly Swiss Women Win Climate Case on Human Rights Grounds](https://ens-newswire.com/elderly-swiss-women-win-climate-case-on-human-rights-grounds/): A group of older Swiss women has won the first climate lawsuit to characterize protection against global warming as a human right in a case against Switzerland.
- [TEXAS: Japanese-Owned Company Fined $6.6M for Hazmat Fire](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-japanese-owned-company-fined-6-6m-for-hazmat-fire/): DEER PARK, Texas, April 5, 2024 (ENS) - The Japanese-owned Intercontinental Terminals Company has agreed to pay more than US.6 million to federal and Texas state natural resource trustees over natural resource damages from a three-day fire at ITC’s Deer Park terminal facility near Houston that released tons of hazardous chemicals. Intercontinental Terminals is the %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [$60 Million Starts Salvage of Baltimore's Broken Bridge](https://ens-newswire.com/60-million-starts-salvage-of-baltimores-broken-bridge/): Cranes are now removing the broken Key Bridge from the Patapsco River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay six days after a bridge pillar was struck by a ship.
- [International Women's Month: In Afghanistan Oppression Grows](https://ens-newswire.com/international-womens-day-in-afghanistan-restrictions-intensify/): On this International Women's Day, there is broad consensus that the situation in Afghanistan is the most serious women’s rights crisis on Earth, the UN warns.
- [Water Scarcity Eroding World Peace, United Nations Warns](https://ens-newswire.com/water-scarcity-eroding-world-peace-united-nations-warns/): PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) - Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water to mark World Water Day. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CALIFORNIA: Chevron Fined Record $13M for Ongoing Oil Spills](https://ens-newswire.com/california-chevron-fined-record-13m-for-ongoing-oil-spills/): Oil giant Chevron must pay a record $13M in settlement agreements to California state resource agencies for oil spills in Kern County from 2019 and ongoing.
- [New EPA Emissions Rule Expands Automakers' Time to Electrify](https://ens-newswire.com/new-epa-emissions-rule-expands-automakers-time-to-electrify/): Final U.S. pollution rules for passenger cars, light- and medium-duty vehicles model years 2027-2032 were set this week by the Environmental Protection Agency.
- [Earth Hour Evolves Into the Biggest Hour for Earth](https://ens-newswire.com/earth-hour-evolves-into-the-biggest-hour-for-earth/): Worldwide, millions are turning off lights for one hour on Saturday, March 23, from 8:30 pm local time. It's the World Wildlife Fund's 18th annual Earth Hour.
- [River Protectors Warn Banks as to Central Asia's Biggest Dam](https://ens-newswire.com/river-protectors-warn-banks-as-to-central-asias-biggest-dam/): On the 27th International Day of Action for Rivers, March 14, 2024, all across the world rivers were cleaned, dams were protested and ecosystems were protected.
- [HAWAII: Habitat Protected for 11 Rare Plants, One Unique Fly](https://ens-newswire.com/hawaii-habitat-protected-for-11-rare-plants-one-unique-fly/): The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a Hawaiian picture-wing fly found only on the Big Island of Hawai‘i.
- [Biden's State of the Union Climate Points Short But Crucial](https://ens-newswire.com/bidens-state-of-the-union-climate-points-short-but-crucial/): In his 2024 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden claimed, "I’m taking the most significant action ever on climate in the history of the world."
- [Slow Food Movement Grows Where Women's Rights Are Strong](https://ens-newswire.com/slow-food-movement-grows-where-womens-rights-are-strong/): Across the world, women play a key role in food systems, yet with limited decision-making or land ownership rights. The Slow Food Movement is changing that.
- [Modern Alchemist Profitably Extracts Gold From E-Waste](https://ens-newswire.com/modern-alchemist-profitably-extracts-gold-from-e-waste/): Professor Raffaele Mezzenga at the research university ETH Zurich has learned how to recover gold from discarded electronics using a byproduct of cheesemaking.
- [UK Ship Sunk By Houthis Leaking Oil, Could Spill Fertilizer](https://ens-newswire.com/uk-ship-sunk-by-houthis-leaking-oil-could-spill-fertilizer/): The UK cargo ship Rubymar, attacked by Houthi militants in mid-February, sank in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen in rough seas with a cargo of fertilizer.
- [NEW YORK: Two Dead: Raw Milk Cheese Producer Pleads Guilty](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-two-dead-raw-milk-cheese-producer-pleads-guilty/): SYRACUSE, New York, March 5, 2024 (ENS) - A former raw milk cheese manufacturer and the company he owned and managed pleaded guilty today to charges regarding cheese that was linked to a 2016-2017 outbreak of listeriosis, the disease caused by the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. The multistate listeriosis outbreak resulted in eight hospitalizations and two %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UN Leader: 'Our Climate is Imploding, Humanity Is to Blame'](https://ens-newswire.com/un-leader-our-climate-is-imploding-humanity-is-to-blame/): The sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly, UNEA-6, wrapped up March 1, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya as delegates from around the world pledged climate action.
- [Tobago Oil Spill Spreads Across Southeastern Caribbean Sea](https://ens-newswire.com/tobago-oil-spill-spreads-across-southeastern-caribbean-sea/): Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley calleed a national emergency Sunday, but oil continues to leak into the Caribbean Sea, fouling Tobago's beaches.
- [Toxics in Biosolids Fertilizer Prompt Texas Farmers' Lawsuit](https://ens-newswire.com/toxics-in-biosolids-fertilizer-prompt-texas-farmers-lawsuit/): Exposure to toxics in fertilizer prompt Texas farmers to sue the fertilizer company Synagro for falsely marketing its biosolids fertilizers as safe and organic.
- [COLORADO: Three New Bills Aim to Eliminate Ozone Pollution](https://ens-newswire.com/colorado-three-new-bills-aim-to-eliminate-ozone-pollution/): Colorado's Democratic state legislators offered three bills aimed at upgrading the air quality on the state's Front Range by targeting the oil and gas industry.
- [Capsized Ship Spills Oil Onto Tobago's Secluded Beaches](https://ens-newswire.com/capsized-ship-spills-oil-onto-tobagos-secluded-beaches/): SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, February 12, 2024 (ENS) - An abandoned vessel that capsized just 200 meters (656 feet) from the coast of Tobago's new Cove Eco-Industrial Park has been leaking oil for days, and now some 10 kilometers (six miles) of the Caribbean island's coastline is fouled with the oily mess. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WISCONSIN: Didion Milling Exec +2 Imprisoned for Deadly Blast](https://ens-newswire.com/wisconsin-didion-milling-exec-2-imprisoned-for-deadly-blast/): Five workers died in an explosion at the corn mill operated by Didion in Cambria, Wisconsin. Now, a corporate vice president and two others are going to prison.
- [First Drug to Treat Severe Frostbite Approved in U.S.](https://ens-newswire.com/first-drug-to-treat-severe-frostbite-approved-in-u-s/): An injection to treat severe frostbite in adults that reduces the risk of finger or toe, nose or ear amputation has been approved for the first time in the USA.
- [Inaugural World Lidar Day Honors Remote Sensing Technology](https://ens-newswire.com/inaugural-world-lidar-day-honors-remote-sensing-technology/): DENVER, Colorado, February 14, 2024 (ENS) - It's Geo Week in Denver, where one of the world’s largest geospatial conferences is underway. As part of the gathering, on February 12, a group of Lidar enthusiasts celebrated the first World Lidar Day, marking this date as an annual celebration of the expanding world enabled by Light Detection and Ranging, LIDAR. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Global Environment Fund Gives $1B+ to Help Climate, Species](https://ens-newswire.com/global-environment-fund-gives-1b-to-help-climate-species/): The Global Environment Facility has decided to invest $1.1 billion for international action on biodiversity, climate change, nature renewal, pollution control.
- [Success and Tragedy Mark First Rhino Embryo Implant](https://ens-newswire.com/success-and-tragedy-mark-first-rhino-embryo-implant/): BERLIN, Germany, February 8, 2024 (ENS) - For the first time, a rhinoceros has successfully become pregnant following embryo transfer. Although the surrogate mother rhino died before she could give birth to the transferred calf, scientists say the successful embryo implantation paves the way for use of the same method to save the entire northern white rhino subspecies from extinction. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Bottled Water Comes With Zillions of Nanoplastic Fragments](https://ens-newswire.com/bottled-water-comes-with-zillions-of-nanoplastic-fragments/): NEW YORK, New York, February 6, 2024 (ENS) - When we sip bottled water, we ingest not only water but hundreds of thousands of nanoplastic bits, scientists demonstrate in a newly published study in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NEW YORK: First to Protect Birds, Bees From Neonic Pesticides](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-first-to-protect-birds-bees-from-neonic-pesticides/): New York State has passed the first U.S law restricting the use of neonic pesticides to treat seeds, plants and turf as they kill pollinators and other wildlife.
- [Biden Pauses Export Approvals for U.S. Liquified Natural Gas](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-pauses-export-approvals-for-u-s-liquified-natural-gas/): President Joe Biden has ordered a pause in federal government approvals for LNG export facility construction to consider the effect of LNG on climate change
- [European Union to Phase Out Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks](https://ens-newswire.com/european-union-to-phase-out-heavy-duty-diesel-trucks/): The EU is close to agreement on a phaseout of heavy duty diesel trucks. After passenger cars, heavy-duty trucks are the biggest transport polluters in Europe.
- [Stormwater Violations by Solar Farm Builder Draw Big Fines](https://ens-newswire.com/stormwater-violations-by-solar-farm-builder-draw-big-fines/): Stormwater violations at solar farm construction sites in three states earn California-based Swinerton Builders a multi-million penalty.
- [Flooding Congo River Overwhelms Countries on Both Banks](https://ens-newswire.com/flooding-congo-river-overwhelms-countries-on-both-banks/): The Congo River has again flooded its banks, killing more than 317 on both banks of the river. With hospitals destroyed, WHO is warning of disease outbreaks.
- [Electric School Buses Have Another Billion-Dollar Year](https://ens-newswire.com/electric-school-buses-have-another-billion-dollar-year/): The Biden-Harris Administration is funding electric and low-emission school buses with another billion dollars that will fund purchase of more than 2,700 buses.
- [WWII Munitions, DDT Remain on Southern California Seafloor](https://ens-newswire.com/wwii-munitions-ddt-remain-on-southern-california-seafloor/): Munitions, DDT and chemicals were deliberately dumped in the ocean from Los Angeles to Catalina Island for decades from the 1940s to 1972. They are still there.
- [Weak South African Law Allows Mining in Protected Areas](https://ens-newswire.com/weak-south-african-law-allows-mining-in-protected-areas/): Mining companies have South Africa's protected areas in their sights as the country competes to supply minerals like tungsten and fuels like coal to the world.
- [CALIFORNIA: Prosecutes Recycling Fraud Felonies Worth $12M](https://ens-newswire.com/california-prosecutes-recycling-fraud-felonies-worth-12m/): The State of California is prosecuting two cases of recycling fraud from 2023 that cost the people of California nearly $12 million from the Recycling Fund.
- [Oil, Chemical Firms Pay Millions to Fix Portland Harbor](https://ens-newswire.com/oil-chemical-firms-pay-millions-to-fix-portland-harbor/): Polluters along the Willamette River in Portland, OR have agreed to pay $33 million to restore the river, which is now a Superfund site along a 10 mile stretch.
- [Cummins Fined Record $1.6B for RAM Emissions Defeat Devices](https://ens-newswire.com/cummins-fined-record-1-6b-for-ram-emissions-defeat-devices/): Engine maker Cummins Inc. will pay a $1.6B fine for installing emissions defeat devices on nearly a million of its engines in violation of the U.S Clean Air Act.
- [2023: Earth's Hottest Year](https://ens-newswire.com/2023-earths-hottest-year/): GENEVA, Switzerland, December 30, 2023 (ENS) - The year 2023 shattered climate records, delivered extreme weather, and left death, devastation and despair in its wake laments the World Meteorological Organization, which has pegged 2023 as the hottest year ever recorded. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Interpol Links Wildlife Smuggling to Organized Crime Groups](https://ens-newswire.com/interpol-links-wildlife-smuggling-to-organized-crime-groups/): LYON, France, December 29, 2023 (ENS) - Rare live primates, pangolins, birds, and reptiles; body parts from endangered elephants, rhinos, and big cats as well as protected tropical hardwoods have been seized in a joint Interpol - World Customs Organization operation to stop wildlife and timber trafficking. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WYOMING: Chronic Wasting Disease Kills 1st Deer in Yellowstone](https://ens-newswire.com/wyoming-chronic-wasting-disease-kills-1st-deer-in-yellowstone/): Chronic Wasting Disease, 100 percent fatal to infected deer, elk, and moose, has been found for the first time in a deer in Yellowstone National Park.
- [IDAHO: Execs Indicted for Firefighting Fuel Truck Wire Fraud](https://ens-newswire.com/idaho-execs-indicted-for-firefighting-fuel-truck-wire-fraud/): A federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho has charged executives of competing companies with conspiring to rig bids for forest firefighting contracts and wire fraud.
- [COLORADO: Court Rejects Cattlemen's Attempt to Ban Wolves](https://ens-newswire.com/colorado-court-rejects-cattlemens-attempt-to-ban-wolves/): A U.S. District Court Judge has blocked a legal move by the Colorado cattle industry to stop wolf reintroductions into the state 75 years after eradication.
- [New Treatment Approach to Heart Attacks and Strokes Discovered](https://ens-newswire.com/new-treatment-approach-to-heart-attacks-strokes-discovered/): VIENNA, Austria, July 31, 2023 (ENS) - Scientists from the Medical University of Vienna have described a key molecular pathway that offers new fundamental insights into the atherosclerosis progression and may pave the way for new treatment approaches. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [COP28 Deal 'Beginning of the End' of the Fossil Fuel Era](https://ens-newswire.com/cop28-deal-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-fossil-fuel-era/): DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 13, 2023 – The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28, concluded this afternoon with an unprecedented deal among nearly 200 Parties to the Paris Agreement that signals the "beginning of the end" of the fossil fuel era. The governments agreed to accomplish this by preparing for a swift, just, equitable transition, characterized by deep emissions cuts and scaled-up finance. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [COP28: Last Scheduled Day Ends in Limbo](https://ens-newswire.com/cop28-last-scheduled-day-ends-in-limbo/): DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 12, 2023 (ENS) - It was nearly midnight on Tuesday, December 12 when all but the few tired delegates intimately involved in the high-stakes international climate talks left the COP28 conference rooms at Expo City, Dubai. The closed-door talks would continue until 3 am Wednesday and then pause for consideration of the issues, the COP28 Presidency told negotiators. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Issues World's First Fine for Mishandling Space Debris](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-issues-worlds-first-fine-for-mishandling-space-debris/): WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2023 (ENS) - The Enforcement Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Monday cracked down on the publicly traded Dish Network Corporation over the TV and technology company's failure "to properly deorbit" its EchoStar-7 satellite at the end of its mission. The EchoStar-7 was used to carry Dish's direct broadcast satellite service. Dish Network is fined $150,000 in the first space junk enforcement ever. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission requirew
- [Natural Disasters in Morocco, Libya Disrupt North African Life](https://ens-newswire.com/natural-disasters-in-morocco-libya-disrupt-north-african-life/): GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) - Two huge disasters have hit northern African countries in the past month - a major earthquake in Morocco and devastating flooding in Libya caused by Storm Daniel. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MICHIGAN: 60+ Tribal Nations Back Enbridge Pipeline Removal](https://ens-newswire.com/michigan-60-tribal-nations-back-enbridge-pipeline-removal/): LANSING, Michigan, October 7, 2023 (ENS) - A coalition of more than 60 Tribal Nations from across the U.S. Midwest and Canada, led by the Bay Mills Indian Community, has weighed in on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s lawsuit to remove the Line 5 oil pipeline from the heart of the Great Lakes. Line 5 %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WEST VIRGINIA: Oil Co. Fined $825K, Must Restore Tainted Waters](https://ens-newswire.com/west-virginia-oil-co-fined-825k-must-restore-tainted-waters/): The U.S. EPA and the State of West Virginia, have reached a settlement with Waco Oil and Gas for discharging dredged material into waters of the United States.
- [WMO: September Shatters Planet's Monthly Temperature Record](https://ens-newswire.com/99652-2/): GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) - The year 2023 is now on track to be the warmest year on record, as numerous high temperature records broken in recent months are again smashed... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Feeling Depressed? Put Down Those Ultra-processed Foods](https://ens-newswire.com/feeling-depressed-put-down-those-ultra-processed-foods/): Depression can be eased with a change in diet, new research from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital says.
- [120 Nations, Millions of Doctors, Nurses Urge Climate Action](https://ens-newswire.com/120-nations-millions-of-doctors-nurses-urge-climate-action/): DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 3, 2023 (ENS) - On Sunday, the first Health Day at a United Nations climate summit, more than 40 million health professionals from around the world joined the call to action by the World Health Organization and civil society organizations to prioritize health in the climate negotiations at COP28 now taking place in Dubai. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [COP28: Oil Companies Jump On the Decarbonization Bandwagon](https://ens-newswire.com/cop28-oil-companies-jump-on-the-decarbonization-bandwagon/): DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 2, 2023 (ENS) - Fifty oil and natural gas producers, including Saudi Aramco, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and 28 other national oil companies, have signed an agreement to reduce their carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 and curb methane emissions to near-zero by 2030. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UN Climate Summit Opens With US$400M for Loss and Damage Fund](https://ens-newswire.com/un-climate-summit-opens-with-us400m-for-loss-and-damage-fund/): DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023 (ENS) - "This year’s climate conference comes as the crisis enters a new phase - and shows its full force, harming billions of people, and costing trillions," UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell declared in a video message to the world Wednesday on the eve of the UN climate summit COP28. He detailed progress and setbacks in the year since COP27 in Egypt, and set out expectations for COP28, which opened today and runs through December 12 in the gleaming, high-rise city of Dubai. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Climate Heating Consumes Europe's Forests: Facts Fall Short](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-heating-consumes-europes-forests-facts-fall-short/): The European UnionEU's first Forest Monitoring Law to plug existing gaps in information about European forests was proposed by the European Commission this week.
- [USA, China Pledge Cooperation to Overcome Climate Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/usa-china-pledge-cooperation-to-overcome-climate-crisis/): WOODSIDE, California, November 20, 2023 (ENS) - President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping are long-time acquaintances, and despite recent tensions, their in-person talks on November 15 at the Filoli Estate in Woodside yielded some advances for the environment. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Air Pollution Exposure in Utero Disrupts Human Reproduction](https://ens-newswire.com/air-pollution-exposure-in-utero-disrupts-human-reproduction/): Research from Rutgers and 4 other U.S. schools finds that fossil fuel toxics interfere with prenatal hormone activity, and "lifelong" reproductive development.
- [U.S. Offshore Wind Power Development in Turmoil](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-offshore-wind-power-development-in-turmoil/): Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the Spanish supplier of offshore wind turbines, has suspended plans to build a wind turbine blade factory in Virginia.
- [WMO Predicts Global Heat Streak Will Persist Into 2024](https://ens-newswire.com/wmo-predicts-global-heat-streak-will-persist-into-2024/): Temperature records were broken again in October, continuing a streak of high land and ocean surface temperatures and low sea ice expected to last into 2024.
- [Gaza Hospitals Destroyed as WHO, Ambassadors Urge Ceasefire](https://ens-newswire.com/gaza-hospitals-destroyed-as-who-ambassadors-urge-ceasefire/): World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus briefed the UN Security Council as Israeli forces attacked Gaza hospitals.
- [SOUTH CAROLINA: Safari Owner Guilty of Wildlife Trafficking](https://ens-newswire.com/south-carolina-safari-owner-guilty-of-wildlife-trafficking/): "Doc" Antle of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, an animal trainer, private zoo operator, and convicted felon, pleaded guilty Monday to selling endangered species.
- [South Africa's National Assembly Passes Climate Change Bill](https://ens-newswire.com/south-africas-national-assembly-passes-climate-change-bill/): South Africa's National Assembly passed the country's 1st climate bill in time for the UN climate conference. Now it moves to the National Council of Provinces.
- [U.S. Devotes $128 Million to Environmental Justice Projects](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-devotes-128-million-to-environmental-justice-projects/): WASHINGTON, DC, November 1, 2023 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced nearly 8 million to fund 186 projects across the country that advance environmental justice as part of President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda. This is the first in a series of environmental justice grant announcements the agency will make before %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Multilateral Development Banks Join to Combat 'Polycrisis'](https://ens-newswire.com/multilateral-development-banks-join-to-combat-polycrisis/): All of the world's ten multilateral development banks are strengthening their cooperation so they can fast-track solutions to problems in developing countries.
- [Hurricane Otis Smashes Mexico's Pacific Beach Resort Acapulco](https://ens-newswire.com/hurricane-otis-smashes-mexicos-pacific-beach-resort-acapulco/): ACAPULCO, Mexico, October 27, 2023 (ENS) - Hurricane Otis slammed into the beach resort city of Acapulco as a Category 5 storm early Wednesday, claiming the lives of at least 27 people and leaving four others still missing, numbers that have remained unchanged for the past 24 hours... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Aims to Launch First Nuclear Thermal Rocket into Space](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-aims-to-launch-first-nuclear-thermal-rocket-into-space/): U.S. defense and space agencies are working toward the world’s first in-orbit demo of a nuclear thermal rocket. It will support commercial activit on the moon.
- [MICHIGAN: Steel Giant Must Spend $100M to Cut Air Pollution](https://ens-newswire.com/michigan-steel-giant-must-spend-100m-to-cut-air-pollution/): Two federal agencies are modifying a 2015 deal the USA and Michigan made with AK Steel to resolve Clean Air Act violations at the company’s Dearborn plant.
- [Wildlife Worldwide Contaminated by Flame Retardants: New Map](https://ens-newswire.com/wildlife-worldwide-contaminated-by-flame-retardants-new-map/): BERKELEY, California, October 26, 2023 (ENS) - Wild animals across every continent are contaminated with flame retardant chemicals, according to a new map tracking peer-reviewed research studies worldwide. The more than 150 species of polluted wildlife mapped include penguins, killer whales, red pandas, chimpanzees and other endangered species. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [HAWAII: U.S. Military to Drain Leaking Red Hill Fuel Tanks](https://ens-newswire.com/hawaii-u-s-military-to-drain-leaking-red-hill-fuel-tanks/): HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 11, 2023 (ENS) -Two years after Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility leaked into Honolulu's water, the U.S. military will begin defueling.
- [OREGON: Dam Repair Kills Half a Million Pacific Lamprey](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-dam-repair-kills-half-a-million-pacific-lamprey/): The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife filed a $27.6M claim against the Winchester Water Control District for the loss of 550,000 juvenile Pacific lamprey.
- [ARIZONA: State Cancels Water Lease of Saudi-owned Farm](https://ens-newswire.com/arizona-cancels-water-lease-of-saudi-owned-farm/): Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has authorized cancelation of water leases that allowed a Saudi Arabian-owned farm to irrigate its alfalfa fields after violations.
- [Biden Waives Vital Environmental Laws to Build Border Wall](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-waives-vital-environmental-laws-to-build-border-wall/): The Biden Administration must use funds earmarked by Congress to build 20 miles of the Texas-Mexico border barrier, though he had pledged not to build the wall.
- [UN Chief Excludes World’s Top Polluters from Climate Summit](https://ens-newswire.com/un-chief-excludes-worlds-top-polluters-from-climate-summit/): NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres aimed a message at the world’s largest polluters Wednesday when he excluded them from his Climate Ambition Summit that took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. His message - you are not taking the climate threat seriously enough. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [A World First: High Seas Treaty Signed By 80 Governments](https://ens-newswire.com/a-world-first-un-high-seas-treaty-opens-for-signature/): NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) - The hard-won High Seas Treaty, the first agreement to protect the two-thirds of the world's oceans beyond national jurisdiction, was opened for signature by United Nations Member States on September 20 at UN Headquarters in New York. Signing up enthusiastically, 80 countries and the European Union indicated their support %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [California Sues Big Oil for Decades of Climate Deception](https://ens-newswire.com/california-sues-big-oil-for-decades-of-climate-deception/): OAKLAND, California, September 18, 2023 (ENS) - Alleging decades-long campaigns of deception and statewide climate change-related damage in California, the State Friday filed a lawsuit against five of the world's largest oil and gas companies: Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP, and the trade association the American Petroleum Institute. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden Admin Invests $100 Million in Recycling Infrastructure](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-admin-invests-100-million-in-recycling-infrastructure/): WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2023 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is receiving more than 0 million from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand recycling infrastructure and waste management systems across the country. These funds will be EPA’s largest recycling investment in 30 years. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Invasive Aliens Blamed for 60% of Plant, Animal Extinctions](https://ens-newswire.com/invasive-aliens-blamed-for-60-of-plant-animal-extinctions/): BONN, Germany, September 5, 2023 (ENS) - Invasive alien species pose a "severe global threat that is underappreciated, underestimated, and often unacknowledged," finds a new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES, an independent intergovernmental body working to strengthen the role of science in public decision-making. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Hurricane Politics: Biden Funds Florida Aid Despite Rude DeSantis](https://ens-newswire.com/hurricane-politics-biden-funds-florida-aid-despite-rude-desantis/): LIVE OAK, Florida, September 2, 2023 (ENS) - President Joe Biden saw from the sky Hurricane Idalia's impact across a swath of Florida before he set out on a walking tour of a city recovering from the storm Saturday. Absent was Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate who declined to join Biden after he said that the Democratic president's presence could hinder disaster response efforts. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [OREGON: Judge Rules for Conservation Groups, Old-Growth Trees](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-judge-rules-for-conservation-groups-old-growth-trees/): PENDLETON, Oregon, September 2, 2023 (ENS) - A Trump-era change in U.S. Forest Service regulations that permitted the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates three separate laws, a federal judge in Oregon ruled August 31. In a lawsuit filed by conservation groups over the change, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman found that %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [TEXAS: Japanese Crane Maker Fined $40M for Clean Air Crimes](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-japanese-crane-maker-fined-40m-for-clean-air-crimes/): The Justice Department announced August 31 that Japan-based Tadano Ltd. will pay a $40 million civil penalty to resolve claims of Clean Air Act violations.
- [U.S. Stock Market Regulators Embroiled in Climate Debate](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-stock-market-regulators-embroiled-in-climate-debate/): The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposes that publicly-traded companies must disclose their carbon emissions in an attempt to limit climate change.
- [Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric for Sparking Deadly Fires](https://ens-newswire.com/maui-county-sues-hawaiian-electric-for-sparking-deadly-fires/): KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, August 25, 2023 (ENS) - Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Maui Electric Co., Thursday, alleging civil damages from the deadly August 8 fires in Lahaina. The lawsuit claims that Hawaiian Electric’s energized and downed power lines sparked three different fires by igniting dry grass and brush in the hills above Lahaina and elsewhere in Upcountry Maui. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Maui Fires Claim 106 Lives, Search Continues Recovery Begins](https://ens-newswire.com/maui-fires-claim-106-lives-search-continues-recovery-begins/): Search and rescue efforts continue and hundreds of people are still missing a week after wildfires destroyed the town of Lahaina, Maui, claiming 106 lives.
- [Biden's Maui Prayer: May He Hold You in the Palm of His Hand](https://ens-newswire.com/bidens-maui-prayer-may-he-hold-you-in-the-palm-of-his-hand/): President Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, Hawaii and Congressional officials together walked through the destroyed town of Lahaina, Maui assessing wildfire damage.
- [Biased Data Yield Flawed AI Weather Forecasts for Global South](https://ens-newswire.com/biased-data-yield-flawed-ai-weather-forecasts-for-global-south/): The Global South is not getting accurate weather/climate predications due to a lack of data about these locations that amounts to bias, say European scientists.
- [Maui Wildfire Death Toll Hits 93, Lahaina Devastated](https://ens-newswire.com/wildfires-on-maui-big-island-kill-six-thousands-evacuated/): Wildfires that swept Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii this week have claimed at least 80 lives since they broke out August 8 in the hills above Lahaina, Maui.
- [NEW MEXICO: Mewbourne Oil Spends $10M to Meet Clean Air Regs](https://ens-newswire.com/new-mexico-mewbourne-oil-spends-10m-to-meet-clean-air-regs/): TYLER, Texas, August 16, 2023 (ENS) - An independent oil and gas producer in the Permian Basin, a shale oil and gas producing area in southeast New Mexico and West Texas, has agreed to pay a .5 million penalty and spend at least .6 million for projects to ensure 422 of its oil and gas %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Amazon Accord Elusive, But Leadership Summit Generates Hope](https://ens-newswire.com/amazon-accord-elusive-but-leadership-summit-generates-hope/): Faced with deforestation of the world's largest rainforest, the 8 nations of the Amazon Basin have agreed to work towards conservation at the Belem Summit.
- [New Monument Protects Sacred Native Lands Near Grand Canyon](https://ens-newswire.com/new-monument-protects-sacred-native-lands-near-grand-canyon/): TUSAYAN, Arizona, August 10, 2023, (ENS) - President Joe Biden has established a new national monument to protect three areas close to Grand Canyon National Park that the President said, "have been profoundly sacred to Tribal Nations and Indigenous peoples of the Southwest since time immemorial…" %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Kruger Park Lions Being Poisoned by Poachers for Body Parts](https://ens-newswire.com/kruger-park-lions-being-poisoned-by-poachers-for-body-parts/): Lions in the northern part of South Africa's Kruger National Park are being killed by poachers for their body parts, which as used in traditional medicine.
- [Nuclear Experts Probe Russian Threat to Ukranian Power Plant](https://ens-newswire.com/nuclear-experts-probe-russian-threat-to-ukranian-power-plant/): VIENNA, Austria, August 4, 2023 (ENS) - Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency breathed a sigh of relief when they observed no explosives on the rooftops of nuclear reactor Units 3 and 4 and their turbine halls at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, ZNPP after alerts from Ukrainian intelligence. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Renewables Share of U.S. Generating Capacity Sets Records](https://ens-newswire.com/renewables-share-of-u-s-generating-capacity-sets-records/): In the first five months of 2023, all renewables combined generated more than a quarter of U.S. total electrical generation up from 25.6 percent a year earlier.
- [Biden Funds Cooling as Warming Climate Generates Extreme Heat](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-funds-cooling-as-warming-climate-generates-extreme-heat/): WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2023 (ENS) - "The existential threat of climate change," as President Joe Biden called it, was the most urgent issue for the President at the White House and the mayors of two heat-stricken cities Phoenix, Arizona and San Antonio, Texas in their own offices, as they held a video call today. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [VERMONT: Historic Flood Forces Climate Change Recognition](https://ens-newswire.com/vermont-historic-flood-forces-climate-change-recognition/): Record rainfall in Vermont from July 9-11 caused rivers to flood, ruining thousands of acres of crops ripening for harvest. What's to blame? Climate change.
- [New Underwater AI Bot Detects Illegal Fishing, Reports Fast](https://ens-newswire.com/new-underwater-ai-bot-detects-illegal-fishing-reports-fast/): SOUTHAMPTON, England, UK, July 25, 2023 (ENS) - British scientists have started work on a new underwater artificial intelligence bot which can detect activities that harm the ocean environment. The bot will be used to detect illegal fishing and protect marine mammals during offshore wind farm construction. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Hungry Millions Held Hostage, Black Sea Grain Deal Collapses](https://ens-newswire.com/hungry-millions-held-hostage-black-sea-grain-deal-collapses/): ISTANBUL, Turkiye, July 23, 2023 (ENS) - Intensifying the food insecurity across much of Africa, the Russian government is weaponizing food in its war on Ukraine. Moscow pulled out of the Black Sea Grain deal last week and is now warning that any ships traveling to Ukraine's Black Sea ports will be seen as potentially carrying military cargoes. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Fiat Chrysler Exec Admits Conspiring to Violate Clean Air Act](https://ens-newswire.com/fiat-chrysler-exec-admits-conspiring-to-violate-clean-air-act/): Emanuele Palma, 43, of FCA US, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony of conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act. As alleged in court documents, Palma and others conspired to withhold information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [FLORIDA: Nopetro Energy Cancels Disputed LNG Export Facility](https://ens-newswire.com/florida-nopetro-energy-cancels-disputed-lng-export-facility/): PORT ST. JOE, Florida, July 21, 2023 (ENS) - Nopetro Energy, the company planning to build a controversial containerized liquified natural gas export facility in Port St. Joe, Florida, says it will "no longer pursue the opportunity due to market conditions." The announcement this week is viewed as a victory by the citizens of Port %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Divesting Fossil Fuels = High Profits, Low Carbon Footprints](https://ens-newswire.com/divesting-fossil-fuels-high-profits-low-carbon-footprints/): If six public pension funds in the United States had divested from fossil fuels 10 years ago, they would collectively be $21 billion richer, new research shows.
- [Sizzling Weather 'A Vicious Cycle of Spiraling Impacts'](https://ens-newswire.com/sizzling-weather-a-vicious-cycle-of-spiraling-impacts/): GENEVA, Switzerland, July 17, 2023 (ENS) - "Scorching temperatures are engulfing large parts of the Northern hemisphere, while devastating floods triggered by relentless rainfall have disrupted lives and livelihoods, underscoring the urgent need for more climate action," the UN World Meteorological Organization, WMO, said Friday. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. EPA Toughens Lead Paint Standards to Protect Children](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-epa-toughens-lead-paint-standards-to-protect-children/): WASHINGTON, DC, July 13, 2023 (ENS) - To better safeguard children and communities from the harmful effects of exposure to dust generated by lead paint, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen requirements for the removal of lead-based paint hazards in pre-1978 buildings and child care facilities. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IDAHO: Fertilizer Firm to Spend $150 Million on Hazwaste Fixes](https://ens-newswire.com/idaho-fertilizer-firm-to-spend-150-million-on-hazwaste-fixes/): BOISE, Idaho, July 13, 2023 (ENS) - J.R. Simplot Company, a fertilizer manufacturer based in Boise, has reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency involving Simplot’s Don Plant facility located near Pocatello, Idaho. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Compact Raman Lidar System Detects Underwater Oil Leaks](https://ens-newswire.com/compact-raman-lidar-system-detects-underwater-oil-leaks/): Researchers at Xiamen University in southeastern China have demonstrated their new small single-photon Raman lidar system that can detect oil leaks underwater.
- [International Wildlife Traffickers Chased, Captured, Convicted](https://ens-newswire.com/international-wildlife-traffickers-chased-captured-convicted/): A court in the Philippines has sent an online trafficker to jail for illegally selling Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamanders; and it is not alone.
- [TEXAS: Houston to Stop Illegal Dumping on Black, Latino Areas](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-houston-to-stop-illegal-dumping-on-black-latino-areas/): WASHINGTON, DC, June 9, 2023 (ENS) - The U.S. Justice Department has secured a settlement agreement in its environmental justice investigation into the City of Houston’s response to illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods. The agreement builds upon the city’s recently announced One Clean Houston initiative, a comprehensive plan to address pervasive illegal dumping %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [New UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Protect Forests, Water, Wildlife](https://ens-newswire.com/new-unesco-biosphere-reserves-protect-forests-water-wildlife/): PARIS, France, June 16, 2023 (ENS) - UNESCO has approved the designation of 10 new biosphere reserves in nine countries, and one transboundary biosphere reserve that stretches across the border between two countries. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Tasting the Future: Chicken Meals That No Chicken Died For](https://ens-newswire.com/tasting-the-future-chicken-meals-that-no-chicken-died-for/): SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 23, 2023 (ENS) - Two California companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, the cultivated meat division of food technology company Eat Just, Inc., have received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for their cultivated chicken, to enter interstate commerce. This clearance, granted Wednesday, means that cultivated chicken, made directly from animal cells, can now be sold to American consumers. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Earth Commission: 'Sick' Planet Needs Safe and Just Treatment](https://ens-newswire.com/earth-commission-sick-planet-needs-safe-and-just-treatment/): Humanity is risking the "future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth," a new Earth Commission study warns, saying the planet needs us to set limits.
- [A 'Critical Moment' for the Colorado River](https://ens-newswire.com/a-critical-moment-for-the-colorado-river/): WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2023 (ENS) - The Colorado River flows for 1,450 miles across the western United States, carving the Grand Canyon on the way, and into Mexico, where it once flowed to the Gulf of California. Now, after years of drought and human pressure, the Colorado River just disappears into desert sands. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UNESCO Designates 18 New Gorgeous Global Geoparks](https://ens-newswire.com/unesco-designates-18-new-gorgeous-global-geoparks/): PARIS, France, May 24, 2023 (ENS) - The United Nations is adding 18 new sites to its network of outstanding Geoparks, showcasing some of the most marvelous sites of natural beauty on the planet. The UNESCO Global Geopark designation was created in 2015 to recognize "geological heritage of international significance." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Western Tribes Funded for Clean Water, Power, Dam Safety](https://ens-newswire.com/western-tribes-funded-for-clean-water-power-dam-safety/): SUPAI, Arizona, May 23, 2023 (ENS) - Tribal communities in five Western states: Arizona, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Washington, will receive millions from the .2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced this week during a visit to tribes in her home state of Arizona. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Ukrainian, U.S. Prosecutors Go After Environmental War Crimes](https://ens-newswire.com/ukrainian-u-s-prosecutors-go-after-environmental-war-crimes/): WASHINGTON, DC, May 19, 2023 (ENS) - Eight guests from the Ukraine Prosecutor General’s Office are in Washington this week for a series of training and study sessions at the U.S. Justice Department on the investigation and prosecution of environmental crimes, including crimes committed in the wake of Russia’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Discarded Cigarette Butts Leak Thousands of Killer Chemicals](https://ens-newswire.com/discarded-cigarette-butts-leak-thousands-of-killer-chemicals/): Cigarette filters are the world’s most common form of litter and now University of Gothenburg researchers are calling for these filters to be completely banned.
- [LOUISIANA: Shell Expands World's Largest Refining Catalyst Plant](https://ens-newswire.com/louisiana-shell-expands-worlds-largest-refining-catalyst-plant/): PORT ALLEN, Louisiana, May 17, 2023 (ENS) - The largest refining catalyst plant in the world is expanding. Shell Catalysts & Technologies, a member of the Shell family of companies, is located in Port Allen, Louisiana, just eight miles from the State Capitol in the city of Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge Parish. It's in %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WMO: Global Temperature Headed for 'Uncharted Territory'](https://ens-newswire.com/wmo-global-temperature-headed-for-uncharted-territory/): GENEVA, Switzerland, May 17, 2023 (ENS) - Fueled by high levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Niño event, global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, warns a new update by the World Meteorological Organization, WMO. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Ends Private Ownership and Breeding of Big Cats](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-ends-private-ownership-and-breeding-of-big-cats/): WASHINGTON, DC, May 11, 2023 (ENS) - Somewhere in the United States an estimated 20,000 big cats are kept in private ownership, often purchased as cubs or bred for photo opportunities. according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, USFWS. When they grow past the cute cub stage, they are sold into the exotic pet trade or the illegal market or abandoned to already financially strained sanctuaries. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Bird Flu Kills Condors Recovering From Near Extinction](https://ens-newswire.com/bird-flu-kills-condors-recovering-from-near-extinction/): Bird flu has killed 21 endangered California condors in northern Arizona this spring, weakening the Arizona-Utah flock that has been reintroduced into the wild.
- [Amazon's 'Dark Earth' Secret Promises Global Forest Renewal](https://ens-newswire.com/amazons-dark-earth-secret-promises-global-forest-renewal/): SAO PAULO, Brazil, May 7, 2023 (ENS) - Millions of Amerindian people living centuries ago in today’s Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil. The result is Amazonian dark earth, ADE, or terra preta, fertile and rich in nutrients and stable organic matter derived from charcoal, which imparts its black color. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Cities of the Americas Share Climate Migration Solutions](https://ens-newswire.com/cities-of-the-americas-share-climate-migration-solutions/): DENVER, Colorado, May 7, 2023 (ENS) - Michael Hancock, third-term mayor of Denver, the Mile High City in the Rocky Mountains, has worked his way up. He knows from experience how essential the role of local governments is in limiting climate change, integrating climate migrants, and building sustainable cities. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Squash Bee Populations Growing Fast While Other Bees Fail](https://ens-newswire.com/squash-bee-populations-growing-fast-while-other-bees-fail/): Numbers of the specialized squash bee, Eucera pruinosa, are growing quickly in response to intensifying cultivation of squashes, pumpkins, marrows and gourds.
- [COVID-19 Global Public Health Emergency Ends: Threat Remains](https://ens-newswire.com/covid-19-global-public-health-emergency-ends-threat-remains/): COVID-19 is no longer classified as a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization said today - it is an established disease.
- [Biden Again Strengthens Vehicle Emissions Standards](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-again-strengthens-vehicle-emissions-standards/): WASHINGTON, DC, April 13, 2023 (ENS) - The benefits of the "most ambitious pollution standards ever," will top costs by US trillion, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency promised Tuesday, announcing new, stricter vehicle pollution standards to make all cars and trucks on U.S. roads cleaner and more efficient. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden Guards 'Breathtaking' Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-guards-breathtaking-lands-as-nevada-texas-monuments/): WASHINGTON, DC, March 26, 2023 (ENS) - At the White House Conservation in Action Summit Tuesday, President Joe Biden established two new national monuments, one in Nevada and one in Texas, protecting over half a million acres of public lands in honor of both Tribal Nations and military veterans. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates](https://ens-newswire.com/kruger-park-ensnared-in-corruption-linked-to-criminal-syndicates/): Some 40 percent of Kruger Park’s law enforcement employees are corrupt and 70 percent of other park employees may be helping rhino poachers, finds a new report.
- [Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons](https://ens-newswire.com/zelensky-relies-on-iaea-support-russia-moves-nuclear-weapons/): VIENNA, Austria, March 27, 2023 (ENS) - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday to plan protection for the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, as the Kremlin made plans to move nuclear weapons closer by stationing them in neighboring Belarus. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [COLORADO: Wild Horses Get New Refuge Larger Than Manhattan](https://ens-newswire.com/colorado-wild-horses-get-new-refuge-larger-than-manhattan/): CRAIG, Colorado, March 23, 2023 (ENS) - The nonprofit Wild Animal Sanctuary has just acquired a large piece of land in northwest Colorado near the historic town of Steamboat Springs and is turning it into one of the largest free-roaming wild horse sanctuaries in the United States. The Wild Animal Sanctuary bought the land for %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke Must Spend $27M to Beat Sewage Overflow](https://ens-newswire.com/massachusetts-holyoke-must-spend-27m-to-beat-sewage-overflow/): HOLYOKE, Massachusetts, March 23, 2023 (ENS) - The Justice Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have entered into a million agreement with the City of Holyoke to reduce overflow sewage discharges into the Connecticut River from the city’s sewer collection and stormwater systems. "Under the terms of today’s settlement, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [OHIO: Norfolk Southern Train Wreck Remediation Makes Progress](https://ens-newswire.com/ohio-norfolk-southern-train-wreck-remediation-makes-progress/): Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued a letter to Norfolk Southern Corporation President and CEO Alan Shaw in advance of his testimony before a Senate committee.
- [Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579](https://ens-newswire.com/cyclone-freddy-floods-three-african-countries-kills-579/): Cyclone Freddy has caused floods and landslides in the African countries Malawi and Mozambique and the island nation of Madagascar, claiming hundreds of lives.
- [IPCC: Liveable Future Possible If We Defuse Climate Time-Bomb](https://ens-newswire.com/ipcc-liveable-future-possible-if-we-defuse-climate-time-bomb/): INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 20, 2023 (ENS) - Global temperatures have already risen to 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels, as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use. More frequent and intense extreme weather events have caused dangerous impacts on nature and people in every region of the world, finds a major new UN report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden Proposes National Standard for PFAS in Drinking Water](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-proposes-national-standard-for-pfas-in-drinking-water/): The U.S. EPA, is taking action to limit per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Linked to cancer, they're called forever chemicals because they don't break down.
- [Conservationists Sue to Stop ConocoPhillips Alaska Oil Venture](https://ens-newswire.com/conservationists-sue-to-stop-conocophillips-alaska-oil-venture/): ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 16, 2023 (ENS) - Warning that the U.S. government's environmental review fails to account for the full climate impact of oil development in Alaska, five of America's largest conservation groups have filed a lawsuit to stop ConocoPhillips' Willow oil project in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska, which the Biden Administration approved Monday. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Freight Train Derailment Politics](https://ens-newswire.com/freight-train-derailment-politics/): WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2023 (ENS) - Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw apologized today during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for the February derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, just a mile from the Pennsylvania border. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency](https://ens-newswire.com/atmospheric-river-nears-california-escalates-storm-emergency/): A series of storms will continue blowing across California through mid-March, and an atmospheric river event is predicted for later this week with more heavy snow.
- [All Is Not Lost: Pioneering Restorations of the Natural World](https://ens-newswire.com/all-is-not-lost-pioneering-restorations-of-the-natural-world/): The United Nations has recognized 10 unique efforts worldwide that are restoring nature. These World Restoration Flagships can now receive UN-backed funding.
- [Davos 2023 a 'Watershed Moment' for Climate Accountability](https://ens-newswire.com/davos-2023-a-watershed-moment-for-climate-accountability/): DAVOS, Switzerland, January 22, 2023 (ENS) - On Friday, the final day of panels at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other climate campaigners from the nonprofit she started, Fridays for Future, held a climate march. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Earthquakes Kill 29,000+, Smash Buildings in Turkiye and Syria](https://ens-newswire.com/earthquakes-kill-2300-smash-buildings-in-turkey-and-syria/): At least 2,900 people have died and thousands more were hurt in 10 provinces after earthquakes shook southern Turkiye and nearby countries on February 6, 2023
- [Facing Major Lawsuit, 3M to Stop Making 'Forever Chemicals'](https://ens-newswire.com/facing-major-lawsuit-3m-to-stop-making-forever-chemicals/): Faced with a major lawsuit and research on the disease-causing impacts of PFAS 'forever chemicals,' 3M says the company will halt PFAS manufacturing by 2025.
- [OHIO: Freight Train Derailment Threatens Chemical Explosion](https://ens-newswire.com/ohio-freight-train-derailment-threatens-chemical-explosion/): ennsylvania border setting rail cars loaded with hazardous materials aflame on Friday night as the train was carrying chemicals through the village of East Palestine from Madison, Illinois, to Conway, Pennsylvania, the rail company Norfolk Southern said. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [EPA Acts to Keep 'Inactive' Forever Chemicals Off the Market](https://ens-newswire.com/epa-acts-to-keep-inactive-forever-chemicals-off-the-market/): The US EPA is regulating toxic per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, the forever chemicals, more closely than before, as 200 million Americans are exposed.
- [Worst Bird Flu Outbreak in U.S. History Kills Millions](https://ens-newswire.com/worst-bird-flu-outbreak-in-u-s-history-kills-millions/): RIVERDALE, Maryland, January 31, 2023 (ENS) - Wild birds and commercially raised chickens alike are dropping dead from bird flu by the millions across the United States. Red-tailed hawks and great horned owls in Wyoming, American and Canadian wild birds along the Atlantic coast and across the Midwest, and 58.2 million birds in commercial and backyard poultry flocks in 47 states have died in the past year... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALABAMA: Persistent Landfill Fire Prompts State Capitol Rally](https://ens-newswire.com/alabama-persistent-landfill-fire-prompts-state-capitol-rally/): People living near a landfill fire burnring for two months want better environmental protection in Alabama and will rally to tell state lawmakers so next week.
- [U.S.-South Africa Wildlife Task Force to 'Follow the Money'](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-south-africa-wildlife-task-force-to-follow-the-money/): PRETORIA, South Africa, January 25, 2023 (ENS) - In her meeting with South African officials today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced a commitment between the U.S. Treasury and South Africa’s National Treasury to form a new United States - South Africa Task Force on Combating the Financing of Wildlife Trafficking. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Heart Disease-Linked Trans Fats Pass WHO's Eliminate Date](https://ens-newswire.com/heart-disease-linked-trans-fats-pass-whos-eliminate-date/): Five billion people are still not protected from trans fats in their food, increasing their risk of heart disease and death, the World Health Organization warns.
- [Police Detain Greta Thunberg at German Coal Mine Protest](https://ens-newswire.com/police-detain-greta-thunberg-at-german-coal-mine-protest/): Climate activist Greta Thunberg of Sweden was detained by German police Tuesday while protesting a coal mine expansion at an abandoned town in western Germany.
- [Climate Denier Gosar Rejoins House Natural Resources Committee](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-denier-gosar-rejoins-house-natural-resources-committee/): WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2023 (ENS) - Ally of industrial development and ex-President Donald Trump, far-right election denier Republican Congressman Paul Gosar of Arizona is back on the House Committee on Natural Resources where he sat for 10 years before he was removed by formal censure of the House in 2021. His return to the committee is a boon for resource extraction companies... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [USDA Approves World's First Honeybee Vaccine](https://ens-newswire.com/usda-approves-worlds-first-honeybee-vaccine/): The first vaccine for the world's imperiled honeybees has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for two years to fight American foulbrood disease.
- [U.S. Agencies to Assess Climate Impact of Federal Projects](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-agencies-to-assess-climate-impact-of-federal-projects/): WASHINGTON, DC, January 9, 2023 (ENS) - In a new climate change guidance, the Biden Administration asks federal agencies to account for greenhouse gas emissions as they review proposals for clean energy and other infrastructure projects under the National Environmental Policy Act, commonly called NEPA. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [KANSAS: Keystone Pipeline Spill Cleanup Plan Agreed](https://ens-newswire.com/kansas-keystone-pipeline-spill-cleanup-plan-agreed/): LENEXA, Kansas, January 9, 2023 (ENS) - Canada's TC Oil Pipeline Operations Inc. has reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to clean up the large oil spill that occurred December 7 in Washington County, Kansas, due to a rupture in the controversial Keystone crude oil pipeline near the Nebraska-Kansas border. Although %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Cyclone Bomb, Atmospheric River Soak California, Kill Two](https://ens-newswire.com/cyclone-bomb-atmospheric-river-soak-california-kill-two/): SACRAMENTO, California, January 7, 2023 (ENS) - What the National Weather Service calls an "incessant parade of storms" continues to batter California with heavy rain, damaging winds, and heavy snow. Flooding, rapid river rises, mudslides, and burn scar flash floods or debris flows all are possible in the week ahead, the NWS predicts. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Hong Kong Issues Green Bonds to Address Tough Challenges](https://ens-newswire.com/hong-kong-issues-green-bonds-to-address-tough-challenges/): The Hong Kong government on Thursday announced the triple-currency offering of US$5.75 billion in green bonds to encourage and fund sustainable development.
- [EU Supports Ukrainian Farmers With $15 Million in Grants](https://ens-newswire.com/eu-supports-ukrainian-farmers-with-15-million-in-grants/): KYIV, Ukraine, January 5, 2023 (ENS) - Small agricultural enterprises, smallholder farmers and rural households in western Ukraine will benefit from a new US.5 million project funded by the European Union and implemented by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Global Biodiversity Framework Protects 30% of Planet by 2030](https://ens-newswire.com/global-biodiversity-framework-protects-30-of-planet-by-2030/): MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, December 20, 2022 (ENS) - The first global agreement to protect at least 30 percent of global lands and waters by 2030 was reached Monday by 196 world governments, all but the United States. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALABAMA: Seven Sentenced, Ending Giant U.S. Cockfighting Biz](https://ens-newswire.com/alabama-seven-sentenced-ending-giant-u-s-cockfighting-biz/): MONTGOMERY, Alabama, December 15, 2022 (ENS) - In connection with one of the biggest cockfighting and breeding businesses in the United States, a seventh and final Verbena, Alabama resident was sentenced December 6 for violating the Animal Welfare Act’s ban on animal fighting ventures. At the end of a week of sentencings, four Alabama residents %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ARIZONA: Free PFAS Foam Disposal Cuts Firefighters' Cancer Risk](https://ens-newswire.com/arizona-free-pfas-foam-disposal-cuts-firefighters-cancer-risk/): PHOENIX, Arizona, December 15, 2022 (ENS) - The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, ADEQ, has launched a free of charge "take-back and replace" pilot program to help select fire departments statewide by removing, disposing and replacing firefighting foam that contains per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, PFAS. This group of more than 4,000 different manufactured compounds, has %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Ocean Species Suffer as Nations at COP15 Confront Extinctions](https://ens-newswire.com/ocean-species-suffer-as-nations-at-cop15-confront-extinctions/): Today’s IUCN Red List update reveals "a perfect storm of unsustainable human activity" killing marine life, as the ongoing UN biodiversity conference works toward recovery.
- [Earth's Biodiversity Crisis Activates Governments, Police](https://ens-newswire.com/earths-biodiversity-crisis-activates-governments-police/): Law enforcement from 125 countries have cracked down on illegal wildlife and timber traders, arresting 900+, Interpol and the World Customs Organization said.
- [First WMO Global Water Analysis Finds a Drying World](https://ens-newswire.com/first-wmo-global-water-analysis-finds-a-drying-world/): Most of the planet was drier than normal in 2021, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday, in a new report covering all Earth's water resources.
- [UTAH: Save Monuments, Conservation Groups, Tribes Ask Court](https://ens-newswire.com/utah-save-monuments-conservation-groups-tribes-ask-court/): SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, November 28, 2022 (ENS) - Conservation groups have filed a motion to intervene in two lawsuits challenging President Joe Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. The challenging lawsuits, led by the state of Utah, also attack the Antiquities Act itself as unlawful. The conservationists complain that nearly %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [On Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary U.S. Invests $50 Billion](https://ens-newswire.com/on-clean-water-act-50th-anniversary-u-s-invests-50-billion/): WASHINGTON, DC, October 18, 2022 (ENS) - Fifty years ago today the Clean Water Act of 1972 became law, requiring America to protect and restore the crucial waterways that must sustain ecosystems, communities, and the economy. Now, a new law is providing the funding to accomplish those goals. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Climate Activists Stage Sit-Ins, Glue-Ins Ahead of COP27](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-activists-stage-sit-ins-glue-ins-ahead-of-cop27/): Climate change negotiators are gathering in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the UN's annual climate conference, COP27, opens Sunday.
- [COP27: Humanity 'On the Highway to Climate Hell'](https://ens-newswire.com/cop27-humanity-on-the-highway-to-climate-hell/): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had a stern warning for the annual climate conference, COP27, which opened Nov. 6 in the Red Sea town of Sharm el-Sheikh.
- [COP27: Rich to Fund Climate Loss/Damage for Poorer Countries](https://ens-newswire.com/cop27-rich-to-fund-climate-loss-damage-for-poorer-countries/): SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 20, 2022 (ENS) - The UN Climate Change Conference COP27 closed today in Egypt with a breakthrough agreement to provide "loss and damage" funding for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [COP27 Spills Into Overtime Amid Human Rights Protests](https://ens-newswire.com/cop27-spills-into-overtime-amid-human-rights-protests/): UN human rights experts have complained to the Government of Egypt that climate activists have been subjected to harassment during the UN COP27 climate summit.
- [NEW YORK: Long Island to Host Offshore Wind Training Center](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-long-island-to-host-offshore-wind-training-center/): ALBANY, New York, November 14, 2022 (ENS) - A land transfer between New York State and Suffolk County late last month will bring a National Offshore Wind Training Center to the State of New York, Governor Kathy Hochul and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone have announced. New York State is seeking to establish itself as %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [EU Moving to Stricter Euro 7 Vehicle Emission Standards](https://ens-newswire.com/eu-moving-to-stricter-euro-7-vehicle-emission-standards/): The European Commission has proposed the Euro 7 emission standards to cut emissions from motor vehicles to meet the European Green Deal's zero-pollution goal.
- [OHIO: Cleveland Suburbs Must End Sewer Overflows to Lake Erie](https://ens-newswire.com/ohio-cleveland-suburb-must-end-sewer-overflows-to-lake-erie/): ELYRIA, Ohio, November 10, 2022 (ENS) - The city of Elyria, a suburb of Cleveland, Wednesday agreed to complete a series of capital projects to eliminate discharges of untreated sewage from its sewer system into the Black River, 10 miles upstream from Lake Erie. The lake provides drinking water for at least 11 million people. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Ukraine Faces Power, Water, Food Shortages as Winter Looms](https://ens-newswire.com/ukraine-faces-power-water-food-shortages-as-winter-looms/): Temperatures are dropping across Ukraine, but attacks by Russian forces have damaged and disrupted power and water systems and food is in short supply.
- [Europe Evaluates New Rules for Cleaner Air, Water](https://ens-newswire.com/europe-evaluates-new-rules-for-cleaner-air-water/): The European Commission has proposed stronger rules to control ambient air pollution, surface and groundwater pollutants, and the treatment of urban wastewater.
- [Caution! Climate Work in Progress](https://ens-newswire.com/caution-climate-work-in-progress/): Countries’ climate promises will not avoid catastrophic warming, the United Nations' climate agency warned Wednesday ahead of the annual UN climate conference.
- [Living Planet Report 2022 Shows Wildlife Species Dying Out](https://ens-newswire.com/living-planet-report-2022-shows-wildlife-species-dying-out/): From 1970 to 2018, populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles & fish have dropped by 69 percent on average, according to the Living Planet Report 2022.
- [Biden Rouses Tribal Protests With 1st Monument Designation](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-rouses-tribal-protests-with-1st-monument-designation/): LEADVILLE, Colorado, October 14, 2022 (ENS) - President Joe Biden established the first new national monument of his presidency on Wednesday - the 53,800-acre Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Global Police Join Prince in Fighting Illegal Wildlife Trade](https://ens-newswire.com/global-police-join-prince-in-fighting-illegal-wildlife-trade/): LONDON, UK, October 5, 2022 (ENS) - The world does not have "the luxury of time" to tackle organized wildlife crime, but it does have "a proven roadmap to success and the motivation to put it into action," the Prince of Wales told more than 300 global leaders from law enforcement agencies, conservation organizations and the private sector. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CALIFORNIA: Lawmakers Pass Help for Climate But Not Bees](https://ens-newswire.com/california-lawmakers-pass-help-for-climate-but-not-bees/): SACRAMENTO, California, October 5, 2022 (ENS) - With the signing of 997 bills into law, California Governor Gavin Newsom just wrapped up the 2022 legislative session. In addition to guaranteeing and strengthening reproductive rights in California, Governor Newsom said that "California is investing to fight the climate crisis on the scale of what other countries %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [EPA Opens Environmental Justice Office to Support Civil Rights](https://ens-newswire.com/epa-opens-environmental-justice-office-to-support-civil-rights/): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just established the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights to serve underprivileged communities.
- [Melting Ice Worries Arctic Eight, But Opens Opportunities](https://ens-newswire.com/melting-ice-worries-arctic-eight-but-opens-opportunities/): The United States has released a new 10-year National Strategy for the Arctic, which addresses climate change with urgency and invests in sustainable development.
- [OHIO: Restoration Comes to Dover Chemical Superfund Site](https://ens-newswire.com/ohio-restoration-comes-to-dover-chemical-superfund-site/): The Dover Chemical Corp. in Ohio will restore and protect natural resources at its factory to resolve state and federal allegations of natural resource damages.
- [MONTANA: ARCO Must Complete Cleanup of Anaconda Smelter Site](https://ens-newswire.com/montana-arco-must-complete-cleanup-of-anaconda-smelter-site/): BUTTE, Montana, October 3, 2022 (ENS) - The Atlantic Richfield Company, ARCO, has agreed to spend 1 million complete its cleanup of the Anaconda Smelter Superfund Site in Deer Lodge County, Montana, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday. The state of Montana, on behalf of the Department of Environmental %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UN: World in 'Permanent State' of Humanitarian Emergency](https://ens-newswire.com/un-world-in-permanent-state-of-humanitarian-emergency/): NEW YORK, New York, September 20, 2022 (ENS) - Calling it "the most consequential moment of the last four decades," Csaba Kőrösi of Hungary, the new president of the United Nations General Assembly, today brought down the ceremonial gavel to open this year's debate. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Monstrous Hurricane Ian Smashes into Florida as a Category 4](https://ens-newswire.com/monstrous-hurricane-ian-smashes-into-florida-as-a-category-4/): Hurricane Ian made U.S. landfall Sept. 28 on Florida's Gulf coast. Flooding storm surge overwhelmed coastal cities, sending residents fleeing for their lives.
- [Long Live the Coffee Drinkers - Instant, Decaf or Brewed!](https://ens-newswire.com/long-live-the-coffee-drinkers-instant-decaf-or-brewed/): People who 2-3 cups of coffee a day have a longer lifespan and lower risk of heart disease and stroke compared those who drink no coffee, scientists find.
- [PUERTO RICO: Situation Dire After Deadly Hurricane Fiona](https://ens-newswire.com/puerto-rico-situation-dire-after-deadly-hurricane-fiona/): Puerto Rico is again struggling back from disaster as Hurricane Fiona hit the island Sunday. Buildings, infrastructure were laid waste; a million have no power.
- [Biden Budgets $50M to Develop Floating Offshore Wind Industry](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-budgets-50m-to-develop-floating-offshore-wind-industry/): The new U.S. "Floating Offshore Wind Shot" means turbines operating in deep ocean waters will power homes and grow new manufacturing and maritime industries.
- [Global Net Zero Carbon Energy by 2050 Possible, Profitable](https://ens-newswire.com/global-net-zero-carbon-energy-by-2050-possible-profitable/): Moving to decarbonized energy by 2050 could save the world at least US$12 trillion, compared to current fossil fuel levels say scientists at Oxford University.
- [New U.S. Gov Portal Shows Climate Stressors in Real Time](https://ens-newswire.com/new-u-s-gov-portal-shows-climate-stressors-in-real-time/): WASHINGTON, DC, September 9, 2022 (ENS) - Where's the fire? Where's the flood? For the first time, an online live climate impact dashboard is allowing people to see extreme weather, drought, wildfire and other climate change hazards that their locations are facing in the short term, with more maps showing how each community could be affected in the future. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Oceana Sues Chile’s Largest Markets Over Refillable Bottles](https://ens-newswire.com/oceana-sues-chiles-largest-markets-over-refillable-bottles/): A new plastics law in Chile requires markets to provide customers with returnable beverage bottles both in stores and online. Oceana is suing to ensure they do.
- [Antarctic Glacier Collapse Could Surge Global Sea Levels](https://ens-newswire.com/antarctic-glacier-collapse-could-surge-global-sea-levels/): ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, September 8, 2022 (ENS) - The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, a vast glacier about the size of Florida, is already in a phase of fast retreat in a warming world, causing widespread concern among scientists about how quickly it may dissolve its millions of tons of ice into the ocean, raising global sea levels by as much as two feet. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UN Nuclear Agency Demands Safety Zone at Russian-Held Plant](https://ens-newswire.com/un-nuclear-agency-demands-safety-zone-at-russian-held-plant/): VIENNA, Austria, September 7, 2022 (ENS) - The establishment of a Nuclear Safety and Security Protection Zone at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, in Ukraine is urgently needed to ensure that the physical integrity of the plant is not compromised, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Director General Rafael Grossi told the UN Security Council Tuesday, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MISSISSIPPI: State Capital Water Crisis Lasts Into Labor Day](https://ens-newswire.com/mississippi-state-capital-water-crisis-lasts-into-labor-day/): JACKSON, Mississippi, September 2, 2022 (ENS) - For many Americans, Labor Day weekend is about having some carefree fun before the responsibilities of autumn close in, but the residents of the Mississippi state capital city, Jackson, won't be having much fun this Labor day. They're going to be busy getting water. At great trouble and %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Tiger Numbers Rise, But Monarch Butterfly Numbers Crash](https://ens-newswire.com/tiger-numbers-rise-but-monarch-butterfly-numbers-crash/): GLAND, Switzerland, September 1, 2022 (ENS) - The migratory monarch butterfly, known for its unique annual journey of up to 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) across the Americas, has entered the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as Endangered, beset by habitat destruction and climate change. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Flooded Pakistan Counts 1,100 Dead, Seeks $160M Relief Cash](https://ens-newswire.com/flooded-pakistan-counts-1100-dead-seeks-160m-relief-cash/): More than 1,100 people have died since June as the worst monsoon rains in decades, severe floods and landslides have hit 33 million people across Pakistan.
- [Bolsonaro Blamed as Invaders Plunder Brazil's Indigenous Lands](https://ens-newswire.com/bolsonaro-blamed-as-invaders-plunder-brazils-indigenous-lands/): In 2021, Brazil documented a record 305 cases of invasion, illegal exploitation, and damage in 226 Indigenous lands across 22 states, a 180% increase from 2018.
- [Greenland to Host One of Few Rare Earth Mines Outside China](https://ens-newswire.com/greenland-to-host-one-of-few-rare-earth-mines-outside-china/): TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, August 23, 2022 (ENS) - A new deal between two Canadian corporations is about to make the now-unknown name of the Sarfartoq Rare Earth Element Project famous worldwide, at least in the rare earth mining industry. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [After Shelling, Putin Allows IAEA Into Ukraine Nuclear Plant](https://ens-newswire.com/after-shelling-putin-allows-iaea-into-ukraine-nuclear-plant/): Artillery shells hit Ukraine’s southern city of Nikopol Sunday, near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as EU countries worry about a radioactive release.
- [PUERTO RICO: Govt, Nonprofit Partners Build Protective Reef](https://ens-newswire.com/puerto-rico-govt-nonprofit-partners-build-protective-reef/): The Puerto Rico Department of Environment & Natural Resources is working with the nonprofit group Arrecifes Condado to develop an artificial reef off San Juan.
- [Solar Power Extended to 116,000 More California Homes](https://ens-newswire.com/solar-power-extended-to-116000-more-california-homes/): The Palen Solar Project, a 500-megawatt photovoltaic facility in Riverside County, California, has reached full power operation, the Dept. of the Interior says.
- [UN Petitioned to Save Pantanal Wetland Wildlife From Fires](https://ens-newswire.com/un-petitioned-to-save-pantanal-wetland-wildlife-from-fires/): Wildfires in Brazil are jeopardizing the world’s largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal, and its imperiled wildlife - Jabiru storks, jaguars, marsh deer, otters.
- [Chip-free Sensitive Electronic Skin Fabricated at MIT](https://ens-newswire.com/chip-free-sensitive-electronic-skin-fabricated-at-mit/): MIT engineers have designed a wearable sensor as a form of electronic skin, a flexible, semiconducting film that conforms to the skin like adhesive tape.
- [Biden Signs Wide-Ranging Climate, Clean Energy Bill Into Law](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-signs-wide-ranging-climate-clean-energy-bill-into-law/): President Biden signed the $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act into law, declaring, "With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost!"
- [CALIFORNIA: New Law Makes Plastics Makers Pay for Recycling](https://ens-newswire.com/california-new-law-makes-plastics-makers-pay-for-recycling/): The California Legislature has passed the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, the nation’s toughest policy to curb single-use plastic packaging.
- [KENTUCKY: Stabilizing After Disastrous Floods](https://ens-newswire.com/kentucky-stabilizing-after-disastrous-floods/): Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear focused his weekly Team Kentucky update on flood response in Eastern Kentucky. The state is moving into the stabilization phase.
- [Biden Signs Burn Pit Law to Protect Veterans from Toxics](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-signs-burn-pit-law-to-protect-veterans-from-toxics/): President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics, PACT, Act, the widest expansion of vets' benefits and services in 30 years.
- [Europe Sizzles and Burns in Record Heat](https://ens-newswire.com/europe-sizzles-and-burns-in-record-heat/): Fire season hit Europe early this year after a hot, dry spring. Now, halfway through fire season, wildfires have burned the second-largest area on record.
- [Asia-Pacific Economic Outlook Down as China's Growth Slows](https://ens-newswire.com/asia-pacific-economic-outlook-down-as-chinas-growth-slows/): The Asian Development Bank lowers its economic growth forecast for developing Asia and the Pacific to 4.6% this year, down from a projection of 5.2% in April.
- [Electric Car Buyers Worldwide Purchase to Protect the Planet](https://ens-newswire.com/electric-car-buyers-worldwide-purchase-to-protect-the-planet/): Electric vehicle buyers are likely to be male, young, and environmentally conscious, a similar profile that has emerged from two very different recent studies.
- [New Space Telescope Offers Infrared Look at Ancient Universe](https://ens-newswire.com/new-space-telescope-offers-infrared-look-at-ancient-universe/): The first image from the new James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched, was revealed by President Joe Biden today.
- [Senate to Vote on Record $369 Billion Climate Change Spending](https://ens-newswire.com/senate-to-vote-on-record-369-billion-climate-change-spending/): Kentucky flooding during the last week of July 2022 has claimed at least 28 lives. Rescuers are still searching for missing people and more rain is forecast.
- [Penan Stop Loggers in Culturally Sensitive Conservation Area](https://ens-newswire.com/penan-stop-loggers-in-culturally-sensitive-conservation-area/): Indigenous Penan communities have put a temporary stop to logging of the mountain Batu Siman in northern Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo,
- [Japan's Nuclear Agency OKs Release of Treated Fukushima Water](https://ens-newswire.com/japans-nuclear-agency-oks-release-of-treated-fukushima-water/): Japan's nuclear regulator has approved release of treated water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeast Japan into the ocean.
- [Monkeypox Declared a Global Public Health Emergency](https://ens-newswire.com/monkeypox-declared-a-global-public-health-emergency/): The World Health Organization has declared the 2022 outbreak of monkeypox to be a global public health emergency. Risk is "high" in Europe "moderate" elsewhere.
- [Mexico, US Cooperate to Help Central Americans Thrive at Home](https://ens-newswire.com/mexico-us-cooperate-to-help-central-americans-thrive-at-home/): Mexico and the USA are implementing a new development cooperation plan that addresses the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
- [One Man Blockade of Climate Funding Forces Biden's Hand](https://ens-newswire.com/one-man-blockade-of-climate-funding-forces-bidens-hand/): WASHINGTON, DC, July 20, 2022 (ENS) - Senator Joe Manchin of the coal-producing state of West Virginia, a Democrat, has told Democratic congressional leaders that he won’t support new climate %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Court Orders Toxics Reviewed for Endangered Species Impact](https://ens-newswire.com/court-orders-toxics-reviewed-for-endangered-species-impact/): The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered new EPA reviews of two Trump-era decisions to allow the use of two chemicals regardless of harm to rare species.
- [MONTANA: New Wildlife Refuge Conserves Elk, Bear Lynx Habitat](https://ens-newswire.com/montana-new-wildlife-refuge-conserves-elk-bear-lynx-habitat/): Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today established the Lost Trail Conservation Area in Montana as the newest unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
- [VIRGINIA: 44 Missing in Heavy Rains, Emergency Declared](https://ens-newswire.com/virginia-44-missing-in-flooding-rains-emergency-declared/): Responders are racing to Buchanan County, Virginia to search for at least 44 people missing in flooding rains. Gov. Glenn Youngkin declared a state of emergency.
- [Largest U.S. City Prepares for Climate-Driven Flooding Rains](https://ens-newswire.com/largest-u-s-city-prepares-for-climate-driven-flooding-rains/): NEW YORK, New York, July 8, 2022 (ENS) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams and staff Thursday released the Rainfall Ready NYC action plan - a plan to prepare the city government and all New Yorkers for a future of more extreme rainfall. As climate change brings more extreme weather to the five boroughs, the city is making investments in infrastructure to keep New Yorkers safe... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [State of the Oceans Alarms World Leaders](https://ens-newswire.com/state-of-the-oceans-alarms-world-leaders/): LISBON, Portugal, July 1, 2022 (ENS) - Heads of state, world leaders, and government officials wrapping up their week-long meeting in Lisbon at the UN Ocean Conference admitted to being "deeply alarmed by the global emergency facing the ocean." Across the planet, coastal erosion, rising sea levels, warmer and more acidic waters, marine pollution, overexploitation of fish populations and a steep decline in marine biodiversity are getting worse... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IDAHO: Need for Better Science Halts USDA Carnivore Killing](https://ens-newswire.com/idaho-need-for-better-science-halts-usda-carnivore-killing/): A U.S. District Court has approved a settlement filed by conservation groups to protect Idaho's native carnivores by limiting the U.S. Government's killing methods.
- [U.S. Supreme Court Undercuts EPA Right to Curb Climate Gases](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-supreme-court-undercuts-epa-right-to-curb-climate-gases/): The U.S. Supreme Court voted today to curb the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to limit and reduce CO2 emissions that contribute to climate change.
- [Natural Thirst Inspires Global First: a Law Restoring Nature](https://ens-newswire.com/natural-thirst-inspires-global-first-a-law-restoring-nature/): The European Commission has proposed its first Nature Restoration Law so that the damaged ecosystems across 80 percent of Europe can be revitalized.
- [RHODE ISLAND: Requires 100 Percent Renewable Power by 2033](https://ens-newswire.com/rhode-island-requires-100-percent-renewable-power-by-2033/): PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 27, 2022 (ENS) - Rhode Island lawmakers last week passed a bill requiring that within 10 years 100 percent of electricity sold in the state come from renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar. Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee, a Democrat, is expected to sign it into law. The law %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Germany's G7 Puts Climate Infrastructure Front and Center ](https://ens-newswire.com/germanys-g7-puts-climate-infrastructure-front-and-center/): The world’s seven largest, wealthiest liberal democracies today launched the Partnership for Global Infrastructure to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars.
- [Massachusetts Drinking Water Polluted With Firefighting Foam](https://ens-newswire.com/massachusetts-drinking-water-polluted-with-firefighting-foam/): BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25, 2022 (ENS) - State Attorney General Maura Healey today sued 13 manufacturers of poly- and perfluoroalkyl, PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals used in firefighting foam. They include some of the biggest firms in the country, such as 3M of St. Paul, Minnesota, which makes fluorochemicals. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Funding Frustrations Plague Africa's Great Green Wall](https://ens-newswire.com/funding-frustrations-plague-africas-great-green-wall/): Delegates from 196 countries and the European Union wrapped up a two-week summit to combat spreading deserts in a warming world by planting trees across Africa.
- [U.S. Capital Bus Fleet Under Public Pressure to Decarbonize](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-capital-bus-fleet-under-public-pressure-to-decarbonize/): Public health, environmental, and faith groups are pressuring the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, WMATA, to replace diesel with electric buses.
- [Siberian Wildfires Doubly Dangerous to Distracted Russia](https://ens-newswire.com/siberian-wildfires-doubly-dangerous-to-distracted-russia/): Wildfires in Siberia this spring are harbingers of yet another record-breaking fire season, while the Russian government pours resources into war in Ukraine.
- [PENNSYLVANIA: Air Pollution Costs U.S. Steel $1.5 Million](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-air-pollution-costs-u-s-steel-2-2-million/): U.S. Steel Corporation will pay a $1.5 million fine for air pollution violations and make improvements to its steel production facility in suburban Pittsburgh.
- [Extreme Storms May Protect Beaches Against Sea-level Rise](https://ens-newswire.com/extreme-storms-may-protect-beaches-against-sea-level-rise/): Extreme storms could help protect beaches from sea-level rise with fresh sand from deeper waters or nearby beaches, say scientists from three countries.
- [Wastewater Recycling Sends Microplastics Back to Soil, Ocean](https://ens-newswire.com/wastewater-recycling-sends-microplastics-back-to-soil-ocean/): Farm fields across Europe are becoming a global reservoir of microplastics due to the high concentrations found in fertilizers derived from sewage sludge.
- [Interpol Finds Organized Crime's Fingerprints on Gold Mining](https://ens-newswire.com/interpol-finds-organized-crimes-fingerprints-on-gold-mining/): A new global environmental law enforcement team established by Interpol has issued a report confirming that organized crime is involved in illegal gold mining.
- [XPRIZE Awards 15 Winners $1M Each for CO2 Removal Know-How](https://ens-newswire.com/xprize-awards-15-winners-1m-each-for-co2-removal-know-how/): In celebration of Earth Day, 15 teams have been designated as million-dollar Milestone winners in the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition.
- [New Enzyme Can Gobble Plastic Waste by the Billions of Tons](https://ens-newswire.com/new-enzyme-can-gobble-plastic-waste-by-the-billions-of-tons/): An enzyme created by scientists at the University of Texas, Austin can break down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in a matter of hours.
- [Lions, Tigers, Bears, Apes Rescued from Ecopark Under Fire](https://ens-newswire.com/lions-tigers-bears-apes-rescued-from-ecopark-under-fire/): KHARKIV, Ukraine, April 27, 2022 (ENS) - The evacuation of the Oleksandr Feldman Ecopark in the bombed city of Kharkiv is still going on - the animals are being removed from the line of fire, even as shelling continues. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Humans Shown to Have 'Surprising' Nutritional Wisdom](https://ens-newswire.com/humans-shown-to-have-surprising-nutritional-wisdom/): A British-led team of scientists show that humans make food choices driven by the need for specific nutrients, rather than by the need for calories alone.
- [MARYLAND: State Seeks $100M Compensation for Ship Grounding](https://ens-newswire.com/maryland-state-seeks-100m-compensation-for-ship-grounding/): The State of Maryland has asked the Evergreen Shipping Agency to put $100M in a fund to pay for damage to the environment from grounding of the Ever Forward.
- [OREGON: Extremist Pleads Guilty to Arson Conspiracies](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-extremist-pleads-guilty-to-arson-conspiracies/): PORTLAND, Oregon, April 22, 2022 (ENS) - A Pacific Northwest environmental extremist, arsonist and former fugitive pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court for his role in two arson conspiracies targeting commercial and government-owned animal processing facilities in Oregon and California. Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, 53, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and arson in Oregon %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [150 Clean Cookstoves Change Lives In Guatemala](https://ens-newswire.com/150-clean-cookstoves-change-lives-in-guatemala/): On a mission trip with Cascade Medical Team, an Oregon non-profit affiliated with HELPS International, this volunteer replaced open fires with clean cookstoves.
- [Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India's Tribal Forest](https://ens-newswire.com/coal-mine-expansion-authorized-in-indias-tribal-forest/): State governments in India have approved two new coal projects on the land of the Adivasi Indigenous people, defying a determined Adivasi resistance movement.
- [Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India's Tribal Forest](https://ens-newswire.com/coal-mine-expansion-authorized-in-indias-tribal-forest/): State governments in India have approved two new coal projects on the land of the Adivasi Indigenous people, defying a determined Adivasi resistance movement.
- [Africa Starves Under The Blazing Sun](https://ens-newswire.com/africa-starves-under-the-blazing-sun/): DUBLIN, Ireland, April 21, 2022 (ENS) - Trucking water into communities who are somehow surviving the drought gripping the East African country of Somalia, has got Ireland's largest aid organization Concern Worldwide ringing loud alarm bells - warning that hundreds of thousands of Somali residents could die without urgent humanitarian intervention. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Green Means Planet-Healing Investment to EarthDay.org](https://ens-newswire.com/green-means-planet-healing-investment-to-earthday-org/): WASHINGTON, DC, April 20, 2022 (ENS) - "Together, we must Invest In Our Planet," declares EarthDay.org as the world celebrates humanity's home planet, April 22.
- [Humanity Can Halve Climate Emissions by 2030: UN Panel](https://ens-newswire.com/humanity-can-halve-climate-emissions-by-2030-un-panel/): GENEVA, Switzerland, April 17, 2022 (ENS) - In a rare encouraging climate report, the UN's scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, has recognized "increasing evidence of climate action" and held out hope, finding that, "We have options in all sectors to at least halve emissions by 2030." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Solar, Wind, and Hydro Power in New York City's Future](https://ens-newswire.com/solar-wind-and-hydro-power-in-new-york-citys-future/): ALBANY, New York, April 19, 2022 (ENS) - To deliver clean, renewable solar, wind and hydroelectric power from upstate New York and Canada south to fossil-fuel powered New York City, the State Public Service Commission has approved contracts with Clean Path New York LLC for its Clean Path NY project and H.Q. Energy Services Inc. for its Champlain Hudson Power Express project. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [RHODE ISLAND: 1,000 Free Trees Help Save Energy and Water ](https://ens-newswire.com/rhode-island-1000-free-trees-help-save-energy-and-water/): PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 19, 2022 (ENS) - The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, DEM, is distributing 1,000 free, four-to-six foot trees at sites around the state in late April and early May. The trees are part of the DEM's Energy-Saving Trees program to help homeowners beautify their properties and lower their utility bills %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [LOUISIANA: Man Gets Three Years In Prison for Dog Fighting](https://ens-newswire.com/louisiana-man-gets-three-years-in-prison-for-dog-fighting/): NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 15, 2022 (ENS) - A Louisiana man was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison, three years of supervised release and a ,000 fine for possession of an animal in an animal fighting venture. Clay Turner, 61, of Loranger, pleaded guilty to possession of an animal for use in an animal %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Bird Flu Infects Chickens, Turkeys Worldwide, Millions Killed](https://ens-newswire.com/bird-flu-infects-chickens-turkeys-worldwide-millions-killed/): WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2022 (ENS) - Highly infectious outbreaks of bird flu in 23 states since January have led to the killing of more than 17 million chickens and turkeys, according to state and federal officials. The outbreaks are part of ongoing Eurasian H5N1 bird flu activity... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [South Africa Inflates Value of Trophy Hunts to Conservation](https://ens-newswire.com/south-africa-inflates-value-of-trophy-hunts-to-conservation/): JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 29, 2022 (ENS) - The High Court of the Western Cape Friday ruled against South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment on its 2022 hunting and export quotas for leopard, black rhino and elephants. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Coal Waste Reimagined as 'Ecofriendly'](https://ens-newswire.com/coal-waste-reimagined-as-ecofriendly/): Work on finding beneficial uses for the 120 million tons of power plants' coal waste in the U.S. every year is attracting funding from the Biden administration.
- [Police, Diplomats Form United Front for Endangered Wildlife](https://ens-newswire.com/police-diplomats-form-united-front-for-endangered-wildlife/): The international police force Interpol is joining with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to disrupt and arrest wildlife smugglers.
- [GEORGIA: Reptile Dealer Caught Transporting Deadly Vipers](https://ens-newswire.com/georgia-reptile-dealer-caught-transporting-deadly-vipers/): A Georgia reptile dealer was apprehended and has now been sentenced for illegally transporting venomous African snakes across the United States.
- [Hunger Stalks the World as Russia Bombs Europe's Breadbasket](https://ens-newswire.com/hunger-stalks-the-world-as-russia-bombs-europes-breadbasket/): ROME, Italy, March 13, 2022 (ENS) - While global attention is on Russia's attack on Ukraine and its horrific humanitarian consequences there, a hidden hunger emergency is overwhelming South Sudan - an emergency intensified by the Russian bombardment of Ukraine, thousands of kilometers away. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [KENTUCKY: Bird Flu Found in Wild Birds and on Poultry Farms](https://ens-newswire.com/kentucky-bird-flu-found-in-wild-birds-and-on-poultry-farms/): Bird flu has been found in wild birds flying over the United States and in states along the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways. They can infect domestic birds.
- [Madagascar Trapped in Cycles of Cyclones and Droughts](https://ens-newswire.com/madagascar-trapped-in-cycles-of-cyclones-and-droughts/): Madagascar, has been enduring devastating cyclones and tropical storms one after another for years. The first two months of 2022 were especially difficult.
- [Answering the Imperiled Ocean's Silent Cries for Help](https://ens-newswire.com/answering-the-imperiled-oceans-silent-cries-for-help/): Climate change is the top cause of ocean distress, scientists say, and the message is getting through to governments. People are taking action; is it enough?
- [New UN Climate Change Report "An Atlas of Human Suffering"](https://ens-newswire.com/new-un-climate-change-report-an-atlas-of-human-suffering/): "Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone - now," UN Secretary-General warned about a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- [Russia-Ukraine War Creates a Million Refugees, EU Admits Them](https://ens-newswire.com/russia-ukraine-war-creates-a-million-refugees-eu-admits-them/): GENEVA, Switzerland, March 6, 2022 (ENS) - On a press call to Geneva from Ukraine, Poland and Moldova on Friday, United Nations officials confirmed the vast numbers of Ukrainians who have been forced from their homes since February 24 by the Russian invasion. To date, approximately 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine, with roughly as many people displaced within the country. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. to Defuel and Close Leaking Pearl Harbor Fuel Facility](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-to-defuel-and-close-leaking-pearl-harbor-fuel-facility/): U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered defueling and permanent closure of the leaking Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- [350 Companies Shut Russia Out of Energy, Food, Finance, Tech](https://ens-newswire.com/350-companies-shut-russia-out-of-energy-food-finance-tech/): While governments have imposed sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, companies in finance, transportation, technology, food and consumer goods are leaving.
- [MICHIGAN: Tribes, State Collaborate to Safeguard Wild Rice](https://ens-newswire.com/michigan-tribes-state-collaborate-to-safeguard-wild-rice/): ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 11, 2022 (ENS) - A 0,000 grant to help protect wild rice, one of Michigan’s most culturally and ecologically important native plants, has been awarded to the University of Michigan by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, & Energy, EGLE. Once plentiful in places like northern Michigan, now wild rice %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [TEXAS: Chevron Phillips Chemical Agrees to Cut Gas Flaring](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-chevron-phillips-chemical-agrees-to-cut-gas-flaring/): Flaring off gases with hazardous air pollutants must be controlled at three Chevron Phillips Chemical plants in Texas, the U.S. EPA and the company have agreed.
- [TEXAS: Oil Exec Charged in Oilfield Deaths, Clean Air Crimes](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-oil-exec-charged-in-oilfield-deaths-clean-air-crimes/): MIDLAND, Texas, March 13, 2022 (ENS) - A federal grand jury in Midland has returned an indictment charging the oilfield company Aghorn Operating Inc. and an executive of the company with worker safety and environmental crimes. Aghorn and Trent Day, vice president of Aghorn, were indicted for violating the Clean Air Act relating to releases %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CALIFORNIA: EPA Decision Restores State's Clean Car Authority](https://ens-newswire.com/california-epa-decision-restores-states-clean-car-authority/): WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2022 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reinstated California’s authority under the Clean Air Act to implement its own greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks, which other states, too, can adopt and enforce. The decision on March 9 reverses the Trump administration’s 2019 attempts to revoke %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Congress OKs Climate, Energy, Water Spending in $1.5T Bill](https://ens-newswire.com/1-5-trillion-omnibus-bill-would-fund-climate-energy-water/): WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2022 (ENS) - In a bipartisan vote of 68-31, the U.S. Senate has passed an appropriations bill that will fund government climate, energy, water and wildfire activities, and provide .6 billion in new aid for Ukraine, sending the .5 trillion bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for signature. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Communication Lost With Russian-Held Chernobyl Nuclear Site](https://ens-newswire.com/communication-lost-with-russian-held-chernobyl-nuclear-site/): Since Russian forces seized the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Feb. 24, there has been loss of power and now loss of communication, say IAEA and Ukrainian officials.
- [Animals Can Form Viral Reservoirs Where Covid Variants Breed](https://ens-newswire.com/animals-can-form-viral-reservoirs-where-covid-variants-breed/): GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2022 (ENS) - SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is still spreading among people globally as we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The risk of future variants is high and could be multiplied by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 to wildlife, resulting in the formation of animal reservoirs. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Russians Break Safety Rules at Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant](https://ens-newswire.com/russians-break-safety-rules-at-ukrainian-nuclear-power-plant/): The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Russian forces in Ukraine are mishandling Europe's largest nuclear power plant now under their control.
- [Campaigners, Nations Encourage Japan to Close Ivory Market](https://ens-newswire.com/campaigners-nations-encourage-japan-to-close-ivory-market/): LYON, France, March 6, 2022 (ENS) - Africa’s elephants top a packed agenda for the CITES Standing Committee meeting opening Monday that covers protection for 30+ species of plants and animals. Delegates will consider the live trade in elephants, management of ivory stockpiles, and the closure of domestic ivory markets. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MICHIGAN: Flint Water Civil Lawsuit Opens in Federal Court](https://ens-newswire.com/michigan-flint-water-civil-lawsuit-opens-in-federal-court/): Two engineering firms are on trial for their roles in the City of Flint water crisis. Four Flint children who drank lead-tainted water are the plaintiffs.
- [MARYLAND: First State to Join DoE's Better Climate Challenge](https://ens-newswire.com/maryland-first-state-to-join-does-better-climate-challenge/): ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 5, 2022 (ENS) - Ben Grumbles, Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment, attended the kickoff meeting of the Better Climate Challenge last Monday. He was representing Maryland, the only state to join the federal Department of Energy, DoE, Challenge to date, although more than 90 partners have joined the Challenge %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NORTH DAKOTA: Hosts CO2 Capture, Storage from Midwest Ethanol Plants](https://ens-newswire.com/north-dakota-hosts-co2-capture-storage-from-midwest-ethanol-plants/): CASSELTON, North Dakota, March 4, 2022 (ENS) - North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, a Republican, is convinced that carbon capture and storage is important to U.S. energy security. He supports a project that the company Summit Carbon Solutions of Ames, Iowa is developing - to construct a multi-billion dollar carbon capture and sequestration project in %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [INDIANA: Utility Must Remove Coal Ash From Town of Pines](https://ens-newswire.com/indiana-utility-must-remove-coal-ash-from-town-of-pines/): MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana, March 4, 2022 (ENS) - To resolve federal and state Superfund liability, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, NIPSCO, has agreed clean up soil contamination at individual residences within the Town of Pines Groundwater Plume Superfund site in Porter County, Indiana, at an estimated cost of .8 million. The government's complaint alleges that %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Governments Agree to Draft Global Plastic Pollution Treaty](https://ens-newswire.com/governments-agree-to-draft-global-plastic-pollution-treaty/): NAIROBI, Kenya, March 3, 2022 (ENS) - To tackle plastic pollution accumulating across the globe, governments at the UN Environment Assembly here Tuesday approved the start of talks later this year to draft a legally binding agreement - a treaty - that would promote sustainable production and consumption of plastics and prevent their pollution of the environment. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Plastics Pact, Wildfires Top UN Environment Assembly Agenda](https://ens-newswire.com/plastics-pact-wildfires-top-un-environment-assembly-agenda/): The UN Environment Assembly opened its annual meeting February 28, 2022 in Nairobi. Youth took part in talks. Global treaty to control plastic tops the agenda.
- [Mapping the Universe: Scientists Reveal 4.4 Million Galaxies](https://ens-newswire.com/mapping-the-universe-scientists-reveal-4-4-million-galaxies/): DURHAM, UK, February 25, 2022 (ENS) - Astronomers from Durham University collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using a pan-European radio telescope. The map reveals a detailed radio image of more than 4.4 million galaxies... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [FLORIDA: Indian River Lagoon Gets Stormwater Treatment Help](https://ens-newswire.com/florida-indian-river-lagoon-gets-stormwater-treatment-help/): The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is providing funding to reduce the pollution load on Florida's St. Lucie River and the Indian River Lagoon.
- [Australia Fortifies Antarctic Territory Sovereignty, Science](https://ens-newswire.com/australia-fortifies-antarctic-territory-sovereignty-science/): Australia is investing more than A$800 million over the next 10 years to secure its leadership and strengthen its claims to its territory in East Antarctica.
- [MARYLAND: Ratepayers Subsidize Polluting Energy at Top Prices](https://ens-newswire.com/maryland-ratepayers-subsidize-polluting-energy-at-top-prices/): WASHINGTON, DC, February 23, 2022 (ENS) - Maryland’s clean energy program has major components that are both environmentally counterproductive and excessively costly to ratepayers, finds a report released this week by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER. The DC-based nonprofit supports current and former public employees who seek a higher standard of environmental ethics and %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [PENNSYLVANIA: Stretches $2.7 Million to Fund 18 Clean Fuel Projects](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-stretches-2-7-million-to-fund-18-clean-fuel-projects/): Pennsylvania is spending under $3 million to fund 18 cleaner fuel projects, from electric cars and school buses to an innovative EV battery from Penn State.
- [KENTUCKY: National Energy Lab Helps Louisville Go Renewable](https://ens-newswire.com/kentucky-national-energy-lab-helps-louisville-go-renewable/): LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, January 15, 2022 (ENS) - Kentucky's largest city, Louisville, with its 1.1 million people, is partnering with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, to achieve a clean energy goal that even city administration officials say is "ambitious." The Louisville city government last year passed a law that requires 100 percent clean electricity for %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IOWA: Sioux City Sued Over Fraudulent Wastewater Treatment](https://ens-newswire.com/iowa-sioux-city-sued-over-fraudulent-wastewater-treatment/): The State of Iowa is suing the City of Sioux City for allegedly falsifying wastewater treatment test results and sending polluted water down the Missouri River.
- [MASSACHUSETTS: Sticks With California Clean Trucks Regulation](https://ens-newswire.com/massachusetts-sticks-with-california-clean-trucks-regulation/): BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 7, 2022 (ENS) - To reduce transportation emissions and accelerate the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has filed emergency regulations with the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s office to immediately adopt California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation. This requires an increasing percentage of ZEV truck sales starting with Model %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World’s First: Ships Will Charge Up at Offshore Wind Farms](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-first-ships-will-charge-up-at-offshore-wind-farms/): Two Danish companies - Maersk and Ørsted - are demonstrating the world's first full-scale electric charging station for vessels at an offshore wind farm.
- [Bypassed for Decades, Great Lakes Get Billion Dollar Cleanup](https://ens-newswire.com/bypassed-for-decades-great-lakes-get-billion-dollar-cleanup/): LORAIN, Ohio, February 18, 2022 (ENS) - In Lorain, once famed for its shipyards, where the Black River flows into Lake Erie, President Joe Biden Thursday announced that his administration is making "the most significant restoration of the Great Lakes in the history of the Great Lakes." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WMO: Climate Disasters to Increase Until at Least the 2060s](https://ens-newswire.com/wmo-climate-disasters-to-increase-until-at-least-the-2060s/): GENEVA, Switzerland, February 20, 2022 (ENS) - The impacts of climate change are already "very visible” and "happening worldwide,” the head of the UN weather agency told the opening session of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, which convened on Monday in a virtual meeting that will last through February 25. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WMO: Climate Disasters to Increase Until at Least the 2060s](https://ens-newswire.com/wmo-climate-disasters-to-increase-until-at-least-the-2060s/): GENEVA, Switzerland, February 20, 2022 (ENS) - The impacts of climate change are already "very visible” and "happening worldwide,” the head of the UN weather agency told the opening session of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, which convened on Monday in a virtual meeting that will last through February 25. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Exploring Whale Superhighways With a Global Team of Scientists](https://ens-newswire.com/exploring-whale-superhighways-with-a-global-team-of-scientists/): To mark World Whale Day February 20, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, WWF, has issued a new report and global map on where whales travel - whale superhighways.
- [CALIFORNIA: State Sues Metal Foundry Over Hexavalent Chromium](https://ens-newswire.com/california-state-sues-metal-foundry-over-hexavalent-chromium/): California Attorney General Rob Bonta is taking a metal foundry to court for toxic emissions next to a low-income community of color and the Oakland Coliseum.
- [PENNSYLVANIA: Coastal Zone Grants Fund Lake Erie Protections](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-coastal-zone-grants-fund-lake-erie-protections/): MEADVILLE, Pennsylvania, February 15, 2022 (ENS) - Six projects in Pennsylvania have received Coastal Zone Grants totaling more than 0,000. Aimed at protecting and restoring the Lake Erie Coastal Zone, the grants will be used toward projects that will benefit this critical habitat and ecosystem, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, DEP, said. "The Lake %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [INDIANA: Steelmaker Emits Ammonia, Cyanide; Fined $3 Million](https://ens-newswire.com/indiana-steelmaker-emits-ammonia-cyanide-fined-3-million/): SOUTH BEND, Indiana, February 16, 2022 (ENS) - The largest flat-rolled steel producer in North America, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and other laws, by an August 2019 discharge of wastewater containing ammonia and cyanide into the East Branch of the Little Calumet River, which flows into %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [HAWAII: $350M to Defuel, Rectify Navy’s Leaky WWII Fuel Storage](https://ens-newswire.com/hawaii-350m-to-defuel-rectify-navys-leaky-wwii-fuel-storage/): HONOLULU, Hawaii, February 19, 2022 (ENS) - President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill to avert a federal shutdown that funds the government, but only through March 11. It's important for Hawaii because the bill also provides the Pentagon with some 0 million to strengthen its response to a contaminated drinking water emergency %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Pressures Mexico to Curb Illegal Fishing of Gulf Waters](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-pressures-mexico-to-curb-illegal-fishing-of-gulf-waters/): The U.S. agency in charge of oceans has banned Mexican fishermen from landing their catches in U.S. ports to control illegal fishing in U.S. Gulf waters.
- [USA and China Create World’s First Green Shipping Corridor](https://ens-newswire.com/usa-and-china-create-worlds-first-green-shipping-corridor/): LOS ANGELES, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) - Los Angeles and Shanghai have initiated a partnership of cities, ports, shipping companies, and cargo owners in China and the United States to create a first-of-its-kind green shipping corridor across the Pacific Ocean on one of the world’s busiest container shipping routes. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CALIFORNIA: $25 Million Funds Clean Transport Equity Grants](https://ens-newswire.com/california-25-million-funds-clean-transport-equity-grants/): SACRAMENTO, California, February 13, 2022 (ENS) - The California Air Resources Board has awarded three grants totaling million to provide innovative clean transportation solutions for disadvantaged and low-income communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland. The grants come from the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project, or STEP, a pilot program launched by the Board %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [LOWER 48: Judge Restores Protection to Endangered Gray Wolves](https://ens-newswire.com/lower-48-judge-restores-protection-to-endangered-gray-wolves/): OAKLAND, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) - Today, a federal judge in California overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s November 2020 decision to delist wolves from the Endangered Species Act across most of the continental United States. The Trump administration delisted the gray wolf after 45 years of protection under the Endangered Species Act %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ARIZONA: Copper Mine Proposal Looms Over Sacred Apache Site](https://ens-newswire.com/arizona-copper-mine-proposal-looms-over-sacred-apache-site/): PHOENIX, Arizona, February 11, 2022 (ENS) - The world's two largest mining companies are pressing their proposal to mine for copper beneath a site most sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe. House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raul Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, today accompanied the U.S. Forest Service and San Carlos Apache tribal leaders on %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Salt Intrusion Threatens Vital American Coastal Wetlands](https://ens-newswire.com/salt-intrusion-threatens-vital-american-coastal-wetlands/): By Benjamin Seidman CHESAPEAKE BAY, Maryland, February 11, 2022 (ENS) - In the eternal struggle between the ebb and flow of tides, high tides now have the upper hand as the sea is encroaching on land, rising as the climate warms. As the sea-level rises, valuable coastal wetland ecosystems are being lost to the sea %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UK Local Governments Demand Plutonium Safety Upgrades](https://ens-newswire.com/uk-local-governments-demand-plutonium-safety-upgrades/): MANCHESTER, UK, February 12, 2022 (ENS) - At least 50 local governing councils across England, Scotland, and Wales are worried about radioactive contamination in their communities, as about half of the UK's current nuclear generating capacity is due for decommissioning by 2025. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ArcelorMittal, France Invest Billions in Low-Emissions Steel](https://ens-newswire.com/arcelormittal-france-invest-billions-in-low-emissions-steel/): France is investing 5.6 billion euros in decarbonizing industry by 2030, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on a visit to ArcelorMittal's Dunkirk plant.
- [NEW HAMPSHIRE: Rewards Sustainable Craft Beverage Brewers](https://ens-newswire.com/new-hampshire-rewards-sustainable-craft-beverage-brewers/): New Hampshire is establishing a program that recognize craft brewers who run sustainable operations, conserving water and energy and properly handling waste.
- [Climate Change Forces Rapid Melt of Earth's Highest Glacier](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-change-forces-rapid-melt-of-earths-highest-glacier/): The highest glacier on Mount Everest is melting much more quickly than scientists have realized, new research by scientists from eight countries reveals.
- [Pipeline Break Spills Oil Into Amazon Rainforest Reserve](https://ens-newswire.com/pipeline-break-spills-oil-into-amazon-rainforest-reserve/): An oil spill has entered a protected area of rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon and polluted the Coca River that supplies water to Indigenous communities.
- [MINNESOTA: Climate Change Melts Lakes Once Famed for Icy Sports](https://ens-newswire.com/minnesota-climate-change-melts-lakes-once-famed-for-icy-sports/): The Earth's warming climate is melting Minnesota lakes two weeks earlier than usual, threatening the winter sports that make up Minnesota's way of life.
- [MICHIGAN: State, US EPA Act on Strategy to Clear Detroit Air](https://ens-newswire.com/michigan-state-us-epa-act-on-strategy-to-clear-detroit-air/): DETROIT, Michigan, February 5, 2022 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced a formal determination that the Detroit area did not attain the sulfur dioxide air quality standard by the required deadline. This decision follows a court ruling requiring EPA to determine, under the federal Clean Air Act, whether the area met %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [PENNSYLVANIA: Gas Pipeline Explodes, Criminal Charges Filed](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-gas-pipeline-explodes-criminal-charges-filed/): A 2018 gas pipeline explosion and fire near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has drawn criminal charges from the state as well as a $30.6 million civil penalty.
- [TEXAS: Cuts Back on Air Monitoring After Natural Disasters](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-cuts-back-on-air-monitoring-after-natural-disasters/): The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has decided that regional monitoring after natural disasters such as hurricanes is "unnecessary."
- [Alabama Power Plant Risks Catastrophic Coal Ash Spill](https://ens-newswire.com/alabama-power-plant-risks-catastrophic-coal-ash-spill/): With a river on three sides and an earthen dam vulnerable to hurricanes on the fourth side, an Alabama coal-fired power plant risks a toxic coal ash spill.
- [Thailand to Sue as Oil Spill Contaminates Popular Beach](https://ens-newswire.com/thailand-to-sue-as-oil-spill-contaminates-popular-beach/): BANGKOK, Thailand, February 3, 2022 (ENS) - A beach in eastern Thailand was declared a disaster-hit area on Saturday as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand continued to wash up onto the coast and blacken the sand. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Oil Ship Explodes in Nigeria Emitting Clouds of Black Smoke](https://ens-newswire.com/oil-ship-explodes-in-nigeria-emitting-clouds-of-black-smoke/): ABUJA, Nigeria, February 3, 2022 (ENS) - The floating production, storage and offloading vessel Trinity Spirit exploded and sank early Wednesday morning at the Ukpokiti Terminal, around Excravos, Warri South-west, in Nigeria's Delta State, close to the River Niger Delta. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World Wetlands Day: Guarding the 'Most Threatened Ecosystem'](https://ens-newswire.com/world-wetlands-day-guarding-the-most-threatened-ecosystem/): GENEVA, Switzerland, February 2, 2022 (ENS) - In 2020 wildfires destroyed 30 percent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland extending across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 years, Lake Chad, one of Central Africa’s extensive wetlands, has been disappearing. World Wetlands Day, marked by the United Nations for the first time this %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Fisheries Crime Tied to Explosives, Drugs, Human Trafficking](https://ens-newswire.com/fisheries-crime-tied-to-explosives-drugs-human-trafficking/): LYON, France, January 30, 2022 (ENS) - Fisheries crime is linked to other serious crimes such as human trafficking and the smuggling of drugs and explosives, Interpol’s environmental and maritime security teams report after a five-month intelligence operation spanning 34 countries and all oceans. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Newly Discovered Mekong Region Monkey Endangered Already](https://ens-newswire.com/newly-discovered-mekong-region-monkey-endangered-already/): VIENTIANE, Laos, January 29, 2022 (ENS) - On the steep hillsides of the dormant volcano that is Myanmar's sacred Mount Popa, live more than 100 monkeys of a newly discovered species, just described and identified but already considered critically endangered. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [EU, USA Pledge Energy Security as Russia Threatens Ukraine](https://ens-newswire.com/eu-usa-pledge-energy-security-as-russia-threatens-ukraine/): BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 28, 2022 (ENS) - In a joint statement today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. President Joe Biden reinforced their cooperation on energy security. The two leaders made their positions clear in the face of Russia's buildup of an estimated 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine.
- [U.S. Turns to Nuclear Power as States Phase Out Fossil Fuels](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-turns-to-nuclear-power-as-states-phase-out-fossil-fuels/): U.S. states are considering building new, smaller and safer nuclear power plants to replace the fossil fuels now being phased out of the U.S. energy mix.
- [CALIFORNIA: Governor Invests $10B in Zero-Emission Vehicles](https://ens-newswire.com/california-governor-invests-10b-in-zero-emission-vehicles/): PALO ALTO, California, January 27, 2022 (ENS) - California Governor Gavin Newsom Wednesday outlined his billion zero-emission vehicle, ZEV, package to accelerate the transition to zero-emission vehicles and fight climate change. The package is a critical part of Governor Newsom’s overall plan to cement California’s status as a world leader in forging an oil-free %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Electric Truck Maker Rivian Expands as Orders Pour In](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-electric-truck-maker-rivian-expands-as-orders-pour-in/): IRVINE, California, January 28, 2022 (ENS) - Rivian, the California-based startup manufacturer of electric trucks, SUVs, and delivery vans, plans to expand, locating a second U.S. factory in the state of Georgia, but expansion doesn't mean the company is forsaking its green values. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [TEXAS: University Biologist Indicted for Wildlife Trafficking](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-university-biologist-indicted-for-wildlife-trafficking/): A wildlife biologist at West Texas A&M University has been charged with wildlife crimes for importing parts of protected species into the USA without permits.
- [NEW MEXICO: Bets Big With National Labs on Hydrogen Economy](https://ens-newswire.com/new-mexico-bets-big-with-national-labs-on-hydrogen-economy/): The State of New Mexico is collaborating with the two national laboratories headquartered in the state to develop the hydrogen economy across the country.
- [WASHINGTON: Methane Bubbles Up From Seafloor Near Seattle](https://ens-newswire.com/washington-methane-bubbles-up-from-seafloor-near-seattle/): SEATTLE, Washington, January 30, 2022 (ENS) - At least 349 plumes of methane gas are bubbling up from the seafloor in Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, a University of Washington research team has discovered. The methane is rising right in front of the city of Seattle and along the ferry routes that %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALASKA: Denali National Park to Fix Road Closed By Landslide](https://ens-newswire.com/alaska-denali-national-park-to-fix-road-closed-by-landslide/): ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 24, 2022 (ENS) - The U.S. Department of the Interior is making million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law available to accelerate a long-term solution for the Pretty Rocks landslide in Alaska's Denali National Park. As one of the first Interior Department investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this project %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ILLINOIS: Sugar Camp Energy Sued for PFAS in Firefighting Foam](https://ens-newswire.com/illinois-sugar-camp-energy-sued-for-pfas-in-firefighting-foam/): CHICAGO, Illinois, January 24, 2022 (ENS) - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed a lawsuit against Sugar Camp Energy, LLC alleging that the company violated the Illinois Environmental Protection Act by causing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, to be discharged into waters near one of its coal mines. PFAS are also known as forever %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Offshore Winds Blow Everywhere](https://ens-newswire.com/offshore-everywhere/): BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 23, 2022 (ENS) - "Offshore wind has the biggest growth potential of any renewable energy technology, but the policy environment needs to improve rapidly for offshore wind to reach international net zero targets," the Brussels-based Global Wind Energy Council said in its latest Offshore Wind Report 2021. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Calming Anti-Vax Fear: COVID Vaccines Do Not Harm Fertility](https://ens-newswire.com/calming-anti-vax-fear-covid-vaccines-do-not-harm-fertility/): New research from the Boston University School of Public Health based on data from thousands of couples finds that COVID vaccinations do not impair fertility,
- [Ohio to Host Intel's New $20 Billion Computer Chip Factories](https://ens-newswire.com/ohio-to-host-intels-new-20-billion-computer-chip-factories/): The computer chip giant Intel will invest $20 billion in new semiconductor factories in Ohio, a result of President Biden's work to revitalize U.S. industry.
- [COLORADO: Feds, Corps Agree $90M to Clean Mine Waste Spills](https://ens-newswire.com/colorado-feds-corps-agree-90m-to-clean-mine-waste-spills/): The U.S. government and mining companies have each agreed to pay $45 million to remediate mine waste at Colorado's Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site.
- [Tonga Tsunami Blamed for Oil Spill Fouling Peru’s Beaches](https://ens-newswire.com/tonga-tsunami-blamed-for-oil-spill-fouling-perus-beaches/): The volcanic eruption in Tonga's Western Pacific waters on Jan. 15 is being blamed for a 6,000 barrel spill of crude oil on beaches near Peru's capital, Lima.
- [NASA Chief: Bold Climate Action Needed to Safeguard Humanity](https://ens-newswire.com/nasa-chief-bold-climate-action-needed-to-safeguard-humanity/): The administrator of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is urging 'bold' action to limit climate change, a warning to safeguard humanity.
- [CALIFORNIA: Endangered Salmon Return to Old Spawning Grounds](https://ens-newswire.com/california-endangered-salmon-return-to-old-spawning-grounds/): The endangered coho salmon of Central California are again finding their way up the tiny creeks of Marin County to spawn after heavy rains and a dam removal.
- [NEBRASKA: Two Dead Two In Prison After Railcar Cleaning Fire](https://ens-newswire.com/nebraska-two-dead-two-in-prison-after-railcar-cleaning-fire/): OMAHA, Nebraska, January 14, 2022 (ENS) - In a case nearly seven years old, Steven Braithwaite, Adam Braithwaite and their company Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services, NRCS, were sentenced today in Omaha for violations of worker safety standards that resulted in two worker deaths. The two men were also sentenced for "knowing violations of the Resource %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Food Swaps Can Radically Change a Diet’s Carbon Footprint](https://ens-newswire.com/food-swaps-can-radically-change-a-diets-carbon-footprint/): NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 14, 2022 (ENS) - Americans who eat beef could slash their diet’s carbon footprint as much as 48 percent by swapping just one serving a day for a more planet-friendly alternative, finds a new study published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NEW YORK: Legal Issues Cloud Growth of Offshore Wind Power](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-legal-issues-cloud-growth-of-offshore-wind-power/): ALBANY, New York, January 17, 2022 (ENS) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a plan to make a nation-leading 0 million investment in offshore wind as part of her 2022 State of the State address. But a group of New Jersey residents is complicating matters with a lawsuit to prevent the construction of %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Unregulated Corrosive 9/11 Dust Lands EPA in Court](https://ens-newswire.com/unregulated-corrosive-9-11-dust-lands-epa-in-court/): The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER, has filed suit against the U.S. EPA for failing to regulate corrosive dust from 9/11.
- [World’s Most Daunting Ocean Project: Mapping Entire Seafloor](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-most-daunting-ocean-project-mapping-entire-seafloor/): TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) - Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken by hand with a rope and weight. Today, an international effort led by Seabed 2030 is underway to precisely map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Undersea Volcano Erupts in Tonga, Triggering Pacific Tsunami](https://ens-newswire.com/undersea-volcano-erupts-in-tonga-triggering-pacific-tsunami/): An undersea volcano erupted late January 14 near the Pacific island nation of Tonga sending tsunami wave warnings across the ocean from Alaska to New Zealand.
- [Sea Shepherd Targets Ocean Criminals With 'Age of Union' Ship](https://ens-newswire.com/sea-shepherd-targets-ocean-criminals-with-age-of-union-ship/): Sea Shepherd, the NGO founded by Paul Watson and featured on the Animal Planet TV show "Whale Wars," has a new ship funded by a new NGO, Age of Union Alliance.
- [Even Bleached-out Coral Reefs Can Yield Nutritious Seafood](https://ens-newswire.com/even-bleached-out-coral-reefs-can-yield-nutritious-seafood/): LANCASTER, UK, January 9, 2022 (ENS) - Coral reefs damaged by rising ocean temperatures appear to be more resilient than scientists have realized. An international team studying damaged reefs has discovered an unexpected bright spot of hope for communities who depend upon coral reef fisheries for food security. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Green Values Shape Germany's 2022 Government](https://ens-newswire.com/green-values-shape-germanys-2022-government/): BERLIN, Germany, January 8, 2022 (ENS) - In Germany's September 2021 federal election, voters supported the Greens at historic levels, and Germany became the sixth and largest European Union Member State to have Green Party members in government, joining Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, and Luxembourg. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Australia Links Increasing Megafires to Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/australia-links-increasing-megafires-to-climate-change/): Globally fire activity is decreasing, yet forest fires in Australia are increasing. New research from the national science agency, CSIRO, blames climate change.
- [Philippines Super Typhoon Triggers Mounting Health Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/philippines-super-typhoon-triggers-mounting-health-crisis/): A severe typhoon in the closing days of 2021 has devastated the eastern Philippines, causing more than 140 damaged health clinics and hospitals to close.
- [World’s Largest Free Trade Agreement Takes Effect](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-largest-free-trade-agreement-takes-effect/): From January 1, 2022, 15 Pacific Rim countries will trade with one another virtually tariff-free in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.
- [Norway Builds World’s First Emissions-free Container Ship](https://ens-newswire.com/norway-builds-worlds-first-emissions-free-container-ship/): The world's biggest fertilizer company, Yara International, has built the first emissions-free container ship. It will transport fertilizer, replacing trucks.
- [TEXAS: Hottest December On Record In 130+ Years](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-hottest-december-on-record-in-130-years/): COLLEGE STATION, Texas, January 5, 2022 (ENS) - Last month Texas experienced its warmest December on record since 1889, says John Nielsen-Gammon, a regents professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University who also serves as the state climatologist. December 2021 temperatures averaged five to nine degrees above normal, making it the warmest December in %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [LOUISIANA: Oil Co. Fined for Longest-Running U.S. Oil Spill](https://ens-newswire.com/louisiana-oil-co-fined-for-longest-running-u-s-oil-spill/): In 2004 Hurricane Ivan started an oil spill from a Taylor Energy Co platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil is still spilling and the leak has cost Taylor millions.
- [Philippines Face Holiday Recovery From Typhoon 'Odette'](https://ens-newswire.com/philippines-face-holiday-recovery-from-typhoon-odette/): MANILA, Philippines, December 25, 2021 (ENS) - More than 100 towns in areas devastated a week ago by Typhoon Odette, internationally known as Typhoon Rai, have no electricity this Christmas. Communities hit hardest by the typhoon endured 195 kilometer-an-hour (121 miles per hour) sustained winds, with gusts of up to 270 kph (168 mph) in central island provinces. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Women Sweep UN’s 2021 Champions of the Earth Awards](https://ens-newswire.com/women-sweep-uns-2021-champions-of-the-earth-awards/): NAIROBI, Kenya, December 23, 2021 (ENS) - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been awarded the 2021 Champions of the Earth Award, the United Nations' highest environmental honor, for her policy leadership. Mottley heads the first entirely female selection of awardees; others were recognized for their work on coral bleaching in the Pacific, protecting wildlife health in Uganda, and entrepreurship in Kyrgystan. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Italy to Ban Fur Farming, Fur Growers Will Be Compensated](https://ens-newswire.com/italy-to-ban-fur-farming-fur-growers-will-be-compensated/): In a big win for animal welfare, Italy and France have joined other European countries in a ban on fur farming. The big fashion houses now are going fur free.
- [ILLINOIS: Alcoa Must Do $4M Cleanup of Old Aluminum Plant](https://ens-newswire.com/illinois-alcoa-must-do-4m-cleanup-of-old-aluminum-plant/): EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois, December 20, 2021 (ENS) - Alcoa Corporation and Howmet Aerospace, successors to Alcoa Incorporated, and the City of East St. Louis will clean up hazardous waste disposal sites surrounding Alcoa’s former aluminum refinery plant in East St. Louis to resolve federal liability. The settlement will require the companies to clean up %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. EPA Issues Strictest-Ever GHG Emissions Standards](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-epa-issues-strictest-ever-ghg-emissions-standards/): WASHINGTON, DC, December 20, 2021 (ENS) - The strongest vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards ever established for the U.S. light-duty vehicle sector were set today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for vehicles sold in model years 2023-2026. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Pipeline Company Fined $15M for Largest U.S. Inland Oil Spill](https://ens-newswire.com/pipeline-company-fined-15m-for-largest-u-s-inland-oil-spill/): Texas-based Summit Midstream Partners pleaded guilty to criminal charges that it violated the Clean Water Act by spilling 29,000 million gallons of oil in North Dakota.
- [Unilever Uses 1st Product Bottles Made of Paper, Not Plastic](https://ens-newswire.com/unilever-uses-1st-product-bottles-made-of-paper-not-plastic/): Unilever is poised to package its laundry detergent in the first paper product bottles that contain liquids without leaking. Hair care products will be next.
- [Europe Defines Fair, Inclusive Shift to Climate Neutrality](https://ens-newswire.com/europe-defines-fair-inclusive-shift-to-climate-neutrality/): Ensuring the European Green New Deal leaves no one behind in transitioning to a zero-carbon economy is the goal of a new Recommendation to the European Council.
- [NEVADA: Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Feds Killing Native Wildlife](https://ens-newswire.com/nevada-lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-feds-killing-native-wildlife/): Conservation groups filed a lawsuit to limit wildlife killing by Nevada Wildlife Services, which manages wild animals for the benefit of ranchers and livestock.
- [Tornadoes Claim 80+ Lives Across Six U.S. States](https://ens-newswire.com/tornadoes-claim-80-lives-across-six-u-s-states/): WASHINGTON, DC, December 11, 2021 (ENS) - President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration requested by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear today after more than 30 tornadoes swept across Midwestern and Southern states overnight, claiming the lives of at least 70 people in Kentucky alone. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World's Tigers Vanishing Into Tiger Bone Glue Pots](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-tigers-vanishing-into-tiger-bone-glue-pots/): COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 10, 2021 (ENS) - More tigers now live in illegal captivity on so-called tiger farms than in the wild, raised from cubs as livestock, and slaughtered when mature to harvest their skeletons and body parts for the manufacture of tiger bone glue. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Navy Fuel Tanks Leak Into Oahu Drinking Water](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-navy-fuel-tanks-leak-into-oahu-drinking-water/): The U.S. Navy has suspended operations at Oahu's Red Hill Bulk Fuel storage facility as 700+ people were sickened by leaks from the fuel tanks into their tap water.
- [HAWAII: Endangered Honeycreeper Rescued From Malarial Forest](https://ens-newswire.com/hawaii-endangered-honeycreeper-rescued-from-malarial-forest/): KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, December 9, 2021 (ENS) - An ambitious effort to rescue four tiny birds deep in a thick Hawaiian rainforest saw its first taste of success last weekend, giving hope for the survival of a critically endangered species driven to the brink of extinction by avian malaria: a consequence of climate change. One %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Indonesia's Volcanic Mt. Semeru Claims 22 Lives, Erupts Again](https://ens-newswire.com/indonesias-volcanic-mt-semeru-claims-22-lives-erupts-again/): JAKARTA, Indonesia, December 6, 2021 (ENS) - Mt. Semeru, the tallest mountain on the Indonesian island of Java, erupted Saturday, killing at least 22 people, and again today, sending pillars of hot ash skyward to rain down on nearby villages, burying them to the rooftops. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND: Offshore Wind Will Power 70,000 Homes](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-rhode-island-offshore-wind-will-power-70000-homes/): WASHINGTON, DC, December 5, 2021 (ENS) - The construction and operations of the South Fork Wind power project offshore Rhode Island and New York has been approved by the Department of the Interior, DOI, as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030. This is the DOI’s %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [OREGON: Crews At Work on Deep Water Wave Energy Test Site](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-crews-at-work-on-deep-water-wave-energy-test-site/): Work is underway on a deep ocean wave energy test site on the Oregon coast, the first on the U.S. West Coast. It will advance renewable wave energy development.
- [CALIFORNIA: Famous Traveling Wolf Hit By Vehicle, Dies](https://ens-newswire.com/california-famous-traveling-wolf-hit-by-vehicle-dies/): SACRAMENTO, California, November 26, 2021 (ENS) - A wolf that made national headlines by becoming the first reported wolf on California's central coast in up to 300 years has died after a vehicle struck him near the Interstate 5 highway. The young radio-collared male wolf from Oregon, named OR-93, first entered California on January 30 %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Canada's First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories](https://ens-newswire.com/canadas-first-nations-score-two-environmental-victories/): VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 3, 2021 (ENS) - The British Columbia government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales, BCTS, have pulled three more cutblocks from their sales plan in Argonaut Creek in central British Columbia on the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa, Syilx, Secwépemc and Sinixt nations. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NEW YORK: Conspiracy to Evade Asbestos Regs Exposes Crimes](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-conspiracy-to-evade-asbestos-regs-exposes-crimes/): BINGHAMTON, New York, December 2, 2021 (ENS) - Two convicted asbestos criminals will be jailed and fined nearly 0,000 for exposing their workers and the surrounding community to the risk of diseases caused by asbestos exposure - lung cancer, asbestosis, and mesothelioma, an invariably fatal disease. For conspiring to violate Clean Air Act regulations that %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Junk Food Has a Higher Carbon Footprint Than Nutritious Food](https://ens-newswire.com/junk-food-has-a-higher-carbon-footprint-than-nutritious-food/): LEEDS, UK, December 2, 2021 (ENS) Cutting out that sugary morning pastry and those fries for lunch might help fight the climate crisis, new research from the University of Leeds has concluded. Many less nutritious foods and drinks account for nearly a quarter of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [French Companies Develop Offshore Green Hydrogen Production](https://ens-newswire.com/french-companies-develop-offshore-green-hydrogen-production/): PARIS, France, December 2, 2021 (ENS) - The world's first floating wind turbine with an integrated hydrogen production system onboard has advanced one step closer to realization. Known as the Nerehyd™, the offshore green hydrogen facility is the result of a new partnership between two French companies %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries](https://ens-newswire.com/artificial-intelligence-ethics-approved-by-193-countries/): PARIS, France, December 1, 2021 (ENS) - The first global agreement on the ethics of artificial intelligence, AI, was adopted Thursday by 193 countries. All the member states of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, adopted the historic agreement that defines the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of AI. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Ultrashort-pulse Laser Makes Short Work of Superbugs](https://ens-newswire.com/ultrashort-pulse-laser-makes-short-work-of-superbugs/): Those tough-to-kill bacteria such as MRSA and E.coli have met their match in ultrashort-pulse laser technology, discovered at a medical school in St. Louis, MO.
- [Vietnam Cracks Down on Wildlife Trafficking But Crimes Persist](https://ens-newswire.com/vietnam-cracks-down-on-wildlife-trafficking-but-crimes-persist/): LONDON, UK, November 28, 2021 (ENS) - Vietnam needs international help to disrupt the operations of Vietnamese-led wildlife crime syndicates active in Africa and Asia. Despite government efforts to turn the tide of the illegal wildlife trade, Vietnamese criminal networks are still fueling poaching and the decline of biodiversity in Africa, finds a new report. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Illegal Logging Robs Mexico of Its Forests](https://ens-newswire.com/illegal-logging-robs-mexico-of-its-forests/): MEXICO CITY, Mexico, November 26, 2021 (ENS) - Forests in about 15 percent of Mexico’s territory are disappearing due to illegal logging carried out by criminal groups, according to Mexico's Federal Agency of Environmental Protection Profepa. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Burning Toxic Firefighting Foam Hazardous to Human Health](https://ens-newswire.com/burning-toxic-firefighting-foam-hazardous-to-human-health/): WASHINGTON, DC, November 22, 2021 (ENS) - Just a month after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new plan to cope with the wide spread of PFAS, a group of toxic chemicals used to make products like nonstick cookware and stain-resistant carpeting, warnings are emerging that industrial facilities across the country are unwittingly burning a firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [PENNSYLVANIA: Drilling Wastewater Toxics Spread on Dirt Roads](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-drilling-wastewater-toxics-spread-on-dirt-roads/): FARMINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania, November 19, 2021 (ENS) - In 2017-18, Farmington Township, a community of about 2,000 in northwestern Pennsylvania became what resident Siri Lawson calls "ground zero" in the debate over using public dirt roads for oil and gas wastewater disposal. The wastewater is damaging the roads, and residents fear toxic chemicals in the %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Trudeau Activates Troops as Floods, Slides Isolate Vancouver](https://ens-newswire.com/trudeau-activates-troops-as-floods-slides-isolate-vancouver/): An atmospheric river that dumped record rainfall on southern British Columbia has isolated Canada's third-largest city as slides closed roads and rail lines.
- [WEST VIRGINIA: Clean Water Settlement Protects Potomac River](https://ens-newswire.com/west-virginia-clean-water-settlement-protects-potomac-river/): MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, November 17, 2021 (ENS) - The largest sewage district in the state, located in West Virginia's Shenandoah Valley must make improvements to its sewer and stormwater systems worth an estimated million, implement an environmental project valued at .14 million, and pay a 8,400 penalty, under a legal settlement with federal and %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MAINE: Truck Dealer Caught Installing Illegal 'Defeat Devices'](https://ens-newswire.com/maine-truck-dealer-caught-installing-illegal-defeat-devices/): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined a Maine truck dealer for installing illegal "defeat devices" in diesel trucks to falsify EPA emissions tests.
- [Youth Urgency Influenced COP26 Climate Negotiations](https://ens-newswire.com/youth-urgency-influenced-cop26-climate-negotiations/): The United Nations climate conference COP26 saw and heard young people demanding immediate action to curb the warming climate that will determine their future.
- [WASHINGTON: Bayer Fined $62M in School PCB Exposure Case](https://ens-newswire.com/washington-bayer-fined-62m-in-school-pcb-exposure-case/): An alternative public school near Seattle, Washington has won a second verdict against Bayer Pharmaceuticals for exposure to toxic PCBs. The company will appeal.
- [OREGON: Enviros, Timber, Fishing Groups Protect Private Forests](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-enviros-timber-fishing-groups-protect-private-forests/): Ten million acres of Oregon's private forested land will be better protected after consensus among timber, fish and conservation groups and Gov. Kate Brown.
- [COP26 Glasgow 'Compromise' Climate Pact Disappoints](https://ens-newswire.com/cop26-glasgow-compromise-climate-pact-disappoints/): The UN climate conference COP26 concludes with the first controls on coal and fossil fuels, but many, including the UN Secretary-General, are disappointed.
- [COP26 Transport Day Pledges Cover Road, Rail, Air, and Sea](https://ens-newswire.com/cop26-transport-day-pledges-cover-road-rail-air-and-sea/): GLASGOW, Scotland, November 11, 2021 (ENS) - Transport Day at COP26 on Wednesday was studded with announcements of new initiatives and new funding for the decarbonization of road, rail, air and maritime transport around the world. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ILLINOIS: Diesel Truck and Engine Maker Fined $52 Million](https://ens-newswire.com/illinois-diesel-truck-and-engine-maker-fined-52-million/): The diesel truck and engine maker Navistar International, formerly International Harvester, will pay a $52 million fine in a settlement with the U.S. EPA.
- [Back-to-back Hurricanes Forecast to Double on U.S. Gulf Coast](https://ens-newswire.com/back-to-back-hurricanes-forecast-to-double-on-u-s-gulf-coast/): Hurricanes within 10 days of each other are becoming more frequent on the U.S. Gulf Coast, and Princeton University scientists predict that trend will continue.
- [COP26: US, China Ignore Tensions, Pledge Climate Cooperation](https://ens-newswire.com/cop26-us-china-ignore-tensions-pledge-climate-cooperation/): GLASGOW, Scotland, November 10, 2021 (ENS) - Recognizing the "seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis" the world's two biggest carbon emitters, the United States and China, today issued a surprise joint declaration on upgrading their climate action. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALABAMA: Grand Jury Charges Seven in Major Cockfighting Operation](https://ens-newswire.com/alabama-grand-jury-charges-seven-in-major-cockfighting-operation/): MONTGOMERY, Alabama, November 5, 2021 (ENS) - A federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment this week charging seven Verbena, Alabama, residents with conspiracy to violate the Animal Welfare Act and to operate an illegal gambling business, among other violations, in connection with a large-scale cockfighting and fighting bird breeding operation. The indictment alleges that, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Ecuador Enlarges Galapagos Marine Reserve, Darwin's Dream](https://ens-newswire.com/ecuador-enlarges-galapagos-marine-reserve-darwins-dream/): GLASGOW, Scotland, November 5, 2021 (ENS) - Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has just expanded the marine reserve around the Galapagos Islands by 45 percent and created a protected swimway from Galapagos to Costa Rica. President Lasso announced the expansion at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [COP26: Climate Activists March Against Net-Zero 'Greenwash'](https://ens-newswire.com/cop26-climate-activists-march-against-net-zero-greenwash/): GLASGOW, Scotland, November 7, 2021 (ENS) - Thousands marched peacefully in the streets of Glasgow Saturday demanding more funding and action as week one of the UN climate summit here winds down. Civil society representatives young and old called on governments to get serious on the substance of COP26 negotiations ... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [HAWAII: Courts Rule Maui Wastewater Injection Wells Need Permit](https://ens-newswire.com/hawaii-courts-rule-maui-wastewater-injection-wells-need-permit/): Hawaii's Maui County must get a Clean Water Act permit to inject treated wastewater underground in the first application of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
- [COP26 Finance: Changing Climate Change With Financial Support](https://ens-newswire.com/cop26-finance-changing-climate-change-with-financial-support/): GLASGOW, Scotland, November 3, 2021 (ENS) - After two days of speeches and announcements from world leaders, the focus today at the UN climate summit COP26 shifted to raising the funding needed to accomplish the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate. But as the day unfolded, protests disrupted finance sessions... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALASKA: Cook Inlet Federal Waters Closed to Commercial Salmon Fishing](https://ens-newswire.com/alaska-cook-inlet-federal-waters-closed-to-commercial-salmon-fishing/): The federal waters of Cook Inlet Exclusive Economic Zone will be closed to commercial salmon fishing during the 2022 season as the result of a lawsuit.
- [OREGON: Making Sure Wind Turbines and Whales Won't Mix](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-making-sure-wind-turbines-and-whales-wont-mix/): NEWPORT, Oregon, October 25, 2021 (ENS) - Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute has been awarded a million grant to collect data about distribution and density of marine mammals and seabirds that will be used to inform decisions about offshore wind energy development. The surveys will allow Oregon State’s scientific team to develop species %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Bank Alliances Underpin Global Net-Zero Financial Effort](https://ens-newswire.com/bank-alliances-underpin-global-net-zero-financial-effort/): Large banks and asset managers who collectively control trillions are forming alliances to ensure the world gets to net zero GHG emissions before it's too late.
- [MONTANA: Judge Orders Halt to Coal Strip-Mine Expansion](https://ens-newswire.com/montana-judge-orders-halt-to-coal-strip-mine-expansion/): BOZEMAN, Montana, October 31, 2021 (ENS) - In a victory for cleaner water in Montana, a state district court judge has ordered the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, DEQ, to revisit its 2015 permit to expand the Rosebud coal strip-mine owned by Colorado-based Westmoreland Mining. Judge Katherine Bidegaray in Rosebud County decided that the Montana %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Climate Polluters Collaborate on Carbon-Free Nuclear Fusion](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-polluters-collaborate-on-carbon-free-nuclear-fusion/): PARIS, France, November 1, 2021 (ENS) - In the tiny 10th century French town of Saint-Paul-lès-Durance in Provence, the largest scientific research collaboration in history is underway in the most expensive building ever built. The international nuclear fusion megaproject has brought all the countries that top the greenhouse gas emissions list together in an unprecedented global collaboration. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World 'Heading for Climate Disaster,' UN Chief Warns COP26](https://ens-newswire.com/world-heading-for-climate-disaster-un-chief-warns-cop26/): The UN climate change summit COP26 opened Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland as more than 120 world leaders vowed to use clean energy and fund help for poorer nations.
- [G20 Creates Finance-Health Task Force to Address Pandemics](https://ens-newswire.com/g20-creates-finance-health-task-force-to-address-pandemics/): ROME, Italy, October 30, 2021 (ENS) - The G20 nations are getting serious about controlling the coronavirus pandemic and any future pandemic that might arise. On Friday in their first joint meeting under the Italian G20 Presidency, the G20 Health and Finance Ministers established a joint Finance-Health Task Force to strengthen both public health measures and the funding to support them. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Demonstrators Demand Federal Reserve Account for Climate Risk](https://ens-newswire.com/demonstrators-demand-federal-reserve-account-for-climate-risk/): To help protect the climate, demonstrators against the burning of coal, oil and gas made their views known at Federal Reserve branches across the United States.
- [Facebook Morphs Into Meta for Metaverse: Zuckerberg Explains](https://ens-newswire.com/facebook-morphs-into-meta-for-metaverse-zuckerberg-explains/): MENLO PARK, California, October 28, 2021 (ENS) - Facebook has had many troubles in its 15 year history - outages, accusations before Congress, privacy concerns, lawsuits. To counteract the negative publicity, Mark Zuckerberg today changed the company name and released a vision of the future that he hopes will change the subject. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [US EPA to Regulate, Clean Up Non-stick 'Forever Chemicals'](https://ens-newswire.com/us-epa-to-regulate-clean-up-non-stick-forever-chemicals/): Toxic chemicals used in non-stick products are polluting U.S. air, water and soil. After ignoring them for decades, now the EPA is cracking down on PFAS
- [NEW YORK: Trafficker in Protected African Cats Gets 18 Months](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-trafficker-in-protected-african-cats-gets-18-months/): BUFFALO, New York, October 23, 2021 (ENS) - A conviction for trafficking African wild cats has landed a New York man in prison for 18 months for violating two federal laws - the Lacey Act and the Animal Welfare Act. "The purpose of the Lacey Act and the Animal Welfare Act is to protect fish, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IDAHO: $50M Mine Waste Treatment Plant Means Cleaner Rivers](https://ens-newswire.com/idaho-50m-mine-waste-treatment-plant-means-cleaner-rivers/): KELLOGG, Idaho, October 22, 2021 (ENS) - In an effort to reduce the volume of heavy metals discharged to Idaho’s Coeur D’Alene River from the Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex, once the largest smelting facility in the world, the State of Idaho has taken possession of the newly upgraded Central Treatment Plant in Kellogg. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden, US Diplomats Fly the World to Advocate Climate Action](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-us-diplomats-fly-the-world-to-advocate-climate-action/): As the pivotal COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland opens November 1, US diplomats in the Biden Administration are advocating urgent action.
- [WISCONSIN: Largest Unprotected Forest Sold for Conservation](https://ens-newswire.com/wisconsin-largest-unprotected-forest-sold-for-conservation/): RHINELANDER, Wisconsin, October 21, 2021 (ENS) - The Conservation Fund has purchased 70,000 acres of forested land in central Wisconsin from The Forestland Group to safeguard wildlife habitat and water quality while allowing sustainable timber harvesting, hunting and fishing. The national nonprofit’s purchase provides time for the development and implementation of permanent conservation easements on %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Artificial Intelligence Systems Learn to Teach Each Other](https://ens-newswire.com/artificial-intelligence-systems-learn-to-teach-one-another/): Three universities cooperate to advance the U.S. military's push to develop artificial intelligence that allows computers to share learning with each other.
- [23 Species Off U.S. Endangered Species List: All Are Extinct](https://ens-newswire.com/23-species-off-u-s-endangered-species-list-all-are-extinct/): Dropped from the U.S. Endangered Species List - protections came too late for 23 species of birds, fishes, mussels, and plants that have already gone extinct.
- [Humans 'Hold the Survival of Other Species in Our Hands'](https://ens-newswire.com/humans-hold-the-survival-of-other-species-in-our-hands/): WASHINGTON, DC, October 12, 2021 (ENS) - An agreement to halt human-induced extinctions in 2022 is under consideration as countries gather online this week for the 15th meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden Administration Plans Rapid Offshore Windpower Buildup](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-administration-plans-rapid-offshore-windpower-buildup/): BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 14, 2021 (ENS) - At least 16 wind energy projects are in the works for offshore locations around the United States, at various stages of development. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Wednesday outlined the path forward for future offshore wind leasing ... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Climate Activists Can't Wait, Biden Can't Wait Either](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-activists-cant-wait-biden-cant-wait-either/): With his climate change control funding package stalled in Congress and People vs Fossil Fuels protesters at his door, President Biden takes executive action.
- [Marshall Islands Key to Sustainable Global Tuna Industry](https://ens-newswire.com/marshall-islands-key-to-sustainable-global-tuna-industry/): As the climate changes, strengthening tuna supply chains is critical for small Pacific Island states that supply much of the tuna that feeds the world.
- [TENNESSEE: Cherokee National Forest Expands by 1,500 Acres](https://ens-newswire.com/tennessee-cherokee-national-forest-expands-by-1500-acres/): Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest has been increased by a 1,500 acre gift from Volkswagen of America and the Conservation Foundation.
- [MAINE: Lobstermen, Conservationists Sue Over Right Whale Rule](https://ens-newswire.com/maine-lobstermen-conservationists-sue-over-right-whale-rule/): AUGUSTA, Maine, October 16, 2021 (ENS) - The Maine Lobstermen's Association is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service, NMFS, and the Secretary of Commerce in a challenge to the agency's new Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan modifications. But conservation groups, too, are suing the federal agency, as they object to the new final rule %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World's E-Waste Heavier than China's Great Wall](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-e-waste-heavier-than-chinas-great-wall/): On International E-Waste Day 2021, waste managers are asking electronics owners to recycle dead or broken devices so their precious metals can be recovered.
- [Climate Scientists Warn of 'Looming' World Water Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-scientists-warn-of-looming-world-water-crisis/): GENEVA, Switzerland, October 12, 2021 (ENS) - The World Meteorological Organization is holding a special session of its Congress to meet the "explosive" growth in the demand for weather, climate, water, atmospheric and ocean services. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World's Airlines Strengthen Net-Zero-Emissions-by-2050 Trend](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-airlines-strengthen-net-zero-emissions-by-2050-trend/): BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 10, 2021 (ENS) - The air transport industry is joining the current global wave of commitments to a climate protection goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. At its annual general meeting in Boston... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World's Airlines Strengthen Net-Zero-Emissions-by-2050 Trend](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-airlines-strengthen-net-zero-emissions-by-2050-trend/): BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 10, 2021 (ENS) - The air transport industry is joining the current global wave of commitments to a climate protection goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. At its annual general meeting in Boston... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UN Climate Action Award Winners Offer Leadership, New Ideas](https://ens-newswire.com/un-climate-action-award-winners-offer-leadership-new-ideas/): BONN, Germany, October 11, 2021 (ENS) - Ahead of the pivotal United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 26, in Glasgow in November, winners of the 10th anniversary UN Global Climate Action Awards from African surfers to the ... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [2021 Nobel Prizes Raise Awareness of Democracy, Climate](https://ens-newswire.com/2021-nobel-prizes-raise-awareness-of-democracy-climate/): The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to journalists who criticized authoritarian regimes. Another Prize honors physicists who founded modern climate science.
- [MINNESOTA: Zebra Mussels Invade Woman Lake, Famous for Its Fish](https://ens-newswire.com/minnesota-zebra-mussels-invade-woman-lake-famous-for-its-fish/): Invasive zebra mussels have appeared in one of Minnesota's most popular fishing lakes. ENS looks at how it happened and what the state is doing about them.
- [NEW JERSEY: Chinese Citizen Jailed for Financing Turtle Trade](https://ens-newswire.com/new-jersey-chinese-citizen-jailed-for-financing-turtle-trade/): A Chinese citizen who laundered money through U.S. banks to finance an illegal turtle trade ring has been sentenced for three years in prison and fined $10,000.
- [Biden Renews Protections on National Monuments Trump Defiled](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-renews-protections-on-national-monuments-trump-defiled/): WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2021 (ENS) - President Joe Biden is poised to sign three proclamations restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World's Biggest Miners Vow Net-Zero CO2 Emissions By 2050](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-biggest-miners-vow-net-zero-co2-emissions-by-2050/): With a past history of environmental messes made while extracting precious metals, the mining industry has pledged to slash CO2 emissions to net zero by 2050.
- [Spill From Damaged Oil Pipeline Fouls California Beaches](https://ens-newswire.com/spill-from-damaged-oil-pipeline-fouls-california-beaches/): LONG BEACH, California, October 4, 2021 (ENS) - The anchor of a ship approaching or leaving a major port on the southern California coast may have struck an oil pipeline on the ocean floor, causing a major leak of crude oil, authorities said today. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- ['Treasure in Our Dumpsters' Released by Texas Chemist](https://ens-newswire.com/treasure-in-our-dumpsters-released-by-texas-chemist/): A new method for extracting precious metals from electronic waste takes less than a second, uses less energy than current methods and produces harmless waste.
- [Tech Firms Block 11.6M Online Wildlife Trafficking Deals](https://ens-newswire.com/tech-firms-block-11-6m-online-wildlife-trafficking-deals/): WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2021 (ENS) - The budding Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online, with 47 member companies across the tech sector, issued a progress report Tuesday - collectively they have blocked 11.6 million transactions for endangered wildlife online. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Tech Firms Block 11.6M Online Wildlife Trafficking Deals](https://ens-newswire.com/tech-firms-block-11-6m-online-wildlife-trafficking-deals/): WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2021 (ENS) - The budding Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online, with 47 member companies across the tech sector, issued a progress report Tuesday - collectively they have blocked 11.6 million transactions for endangered wildlife online. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Afghanistan Starves, Health System on 'Brink of Collapse'](https://ens-newswire.com/afghanistan-starves-health-system-on-brink-of-collapse/): Humanitarian aid is restarting in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021, but millions of Afghans are hungry, health care is being rationed.
- [VERMONT: Climate Lawsuit Targets Exxon, Shell, Sunoco, CITGO](https://ens-newswire.com/vermont-climate-lawsuit-targets-exxon-shell-sunoco-citgo/): MONTPELIER, Vermont, October 2, 2021 (ENS) - Vermont Attorney General Thomas J. Donovan Jr. has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against several big fossil fuel companies for deceptive and unfair practices and messages about the connection between fossil fuels and climate change. The lawsuit names as defendants Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Sunoco LP, CITGO Petroleum, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALASKA: Salmon Disaster Averted as Neighbor Helps Neighbor](https://ens-newswire.com/alaska-salmon-disaster-averted-as-neighbor-helps-neighbor/): The annual salmon run on Alaska's Yukon River failed this year, so Indigenous villages faced starvation this winter, until fish processors came to the rescue.
- [LOUISIANA: HazChem Emissions Cost Synthetic Rubber Factory](https://ens-newswire.com/louisiana-hazchem-emissions-cost-synthetic-rubber-factory/): SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, October 1, 2021 (ENS) - Sulphur, Louisiana got its name, and its French spelling, from the sulfur mines that were operated in the area in the 1900s. Until now, that same city of a little more than 20,000 people has been smelling like sulfur from a local industrial operation - Firestone Polymers. Located %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [TEXAS: Gas Companies Fined Millions for Fatal Air Pollution](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-gas-companies-fined-millions-for-fatal-air-pollution/): Violations of the Clean Air Act cost two Texas workers their lives. West Texas Gas companies will pay millions in fines, more millions in prevention upgrades.
- [NEW YORK: Renewables Coming to NYC via New Buried Power Lines](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-renewables-coming-to-nyc-via-new-buried-power-lines/): ALBANY, New York, September 21, 2021 (ENS) - To mark Climate Week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul Monday announced two major green energy infrastructure projects to power New York City with wind, solar and hydropower projects from upstate New York and Canada. If approved, these infrastructure projects will create some 10,000 family-sustaining jobs statewide and %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CALIFORNIA: Newsom Signs $15B Climate Crisis Spending Bill](https://ens-newswire.com/california-newsom-signs-15-billion-climate-crisis-spending-package/): California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs $15 billion climate legislation package plus 24 more bills to protect the hard-hit state from heat-related natural disasters.
- [UN Climate Week Yields Energy Uplift for a Billion People](https://ens-newswire.com/un-climate-week-yields-energy-uplift-for-a-billion-people/): Climate Week: The first leader-level energy summit at the UN for 40 years yields renewable and low-carbon energy commitments worldwide worth over $400 billion.
- [NEW JERSEY: State Replants Native Atlantic White Cedar Forests](https://ens-newswire.com/new-jersey-replants-native-atlantic-white-cedar-forests/): For climate change resilience, New Jersey is replanting its native Atlantic white cedar forests after logging and sea level rise turned them into ghost forests.
- [Biden to UN: We Stand At an 'Inflection Point in History'](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-to-un-we-stand-at-an-inflection-point-in-history/): NEW YORK, New York, September 21, 2021 (ENS) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres today welcomed important commitments made towards climate action by the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, as the High Level Debate of the UN General Assembly began in New York. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Overfishing Could Wipe Out One-Third of All Sharks and Rays](https://ens-newswire.com/overfishing-could-wipe-out-one-third-of-all-sharks-and-rays/): One in every three sharks and rays in the world's oceans is headed for extinction, warns a new assessment. New tools for traceability are part of the solution.
- [Overfishing Could Wipe Out One-Third of All Sharks and Rays](https://ens-newswire.com/overfishing-could-wipe-out-one-third-of-all-sharks-and-rays/): One in every three sharks and rays in the world's oceans is headed for extinction, warns a new assessment. New tools for traceability are part of the solution.
- [Explosive Volcanic Eruptions Uproot Thousands on La Palma](https://ens-newswire.com/explosive-volcanic-eruptions-uproot-thousands-on-la-palma/): LA PALMA, Spain, September 25, 2021 (ENS) - A volcanic eruption on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma visible from space has destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate. The last major eruption in the Cumbre Vieja volcano chain was 50 years ago in 1971. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Security Council Sees Climate Change as a 'Risk Multiplier'](https://ens-newswire.com/security-council-sees-climate-change-as-a-risk-multiplier/): Meeting during Climate Week, the UN Security Council considered its level of responsibility for the international security concerns posed by climate change.
- [Companies Pledge Millions to End World Hunger by 2030](https://ens-newswire.com/companies-pledge-millions-to-end-world-hunger-by-2030/): The first United Nations Food Summit on September 23, 2021 will feature the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge to involve businesses in ending world hunger.
- [KANSAS: Blue-Green Algae in Lakes Prompts Public Health Warnings](https://ens-newswire.com/kansas-blue-green-algae-in-lakes-prompts-public-health-warnings/): Dozens of lakes in Kansas are covered with blue-green algae, and state officials are warning that the colorful growths are toxic to pets, livestock and humans.
- [Climate Change Aims Achievable If Pledges Are Kept](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-change-aims-achievable-if-pledges-are-kept/): New research from European scientists concludes Paris Agreement temperature goals are within reach but only if nations keep their climate promises.
- [The Colors of Hydrogen](https://ens-newswire.com/the-colors-of-hydrogen/): Green hydrogen offers hope for abundant energy without climate-warming emissions. But not all hydrogen is green, some is blue, gray, brown, black or even pink.
- [RCMP Arrest 900+ in Conflict Over Old-Growth Forest Logging](https://ens-newswire.com/rcmp-arrest-900-in-conflict-over-old-growth-forest-logging/): Old-growth logging protests turn violent as RCMP arrest hundreds defending some of Canada's last old trees on southwestern Vancouver Island.
- [Indigenous Penan Block Logging on Their Ancestral Lands](https://ens-newswire.com/indigenous-penan-block-logging-on-their-ancestral-lands/): The Penan indigenous people of Sarawak, Malaysia, on Borneo, fighting to keep the trees on their ancestral lands safe from logging, ask the government for help.
- [US-Australia Fortify Climate, Environmental, Human Rights Alliance](https://ens-newswire.com/us-australia-fortify-climate-environmental-human-rights-alliance/): The United States and Australia strengthened bilateral cooperation on climate, ocean protection and human rights marking the 70th year of their formal alliance.
- [General Motors Recalls All Chevy Bolt EVs Over Battery Fires](https://ens-newswire.com/general-motors-recalls-all-chevy-bolt-evs-over-battery-fires/): General Motors is recalling all of its battery-electric Bolt EVs lest their lithium-ion batteries catch fire. The U.S. government has opened an investigation.
- [MASSACHUSETTS: Cracks Down on Idling Diesel School Buses](https://ens-newswire.com/massachusetts-cracks-down-on-idling-diesel-school-buses/): Massachusetts AG Maura Healey has reached a $165,000 settlement with a New Bedford-based school bus company over excessive idling at New Bedford schools.
- [Asian Development Bank Issues Blue Bonds for Asia-Pacific Oceans](https://ens-newswire.com/asian-development-bank-issues-blue-bonds-for-asia-pacific-oceans/): MANILA, Philippines, September 13, 2021 (ENS) - To finance ocean protection projects in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank has issued its first dual-tranche blue bonds denominated in Australian and New Zealand dollars. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World Bank: 216 Million In-Country Climate Migrants by 2050](https://ens-newswire.com/world-bank-216-million-in-country-climate-migrants-by-2050/): World Bank report finds climate change to be a powerful driver of internal migration as it impacts people’s livelihoods and livability in exposed locations.
- [MARYLAND: Five Zebras Escape From Breeder's Farm, Run Free](https://ens-newswire.com/five-zebras-escape-run-free-in-maryland/): UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland, September 10, 2021 (ENS) - For more than a week, five zebras have been been wandering freely through the roads and residential neighborhoods of Prince George’s County, just a few miles from Washington, DC, making themselves at home, although they are far from their ancestral home in Africa. Located in the heart %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Europe Funds Pandemic Recovery With Green Bonds](https://ens-newswire.com/europe-funds-pandemic-recovery-with-green-bonds/): The European Commission is preparing to issue green bonds to provide financial support for a a sustainable recovery from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic.
- [IUCN to Coordinate Sustainability of Nature-based Solutions](https://ens-newswire.com/iucn-to-coordinate-sustainability-of-nature-based-solutions/): MARSEILLE, France, September 9, 2021 (ENS) - The IUCN World Conservation Congress amplified its environmental decision-making on Wednesday by introducing a plan to develop a collaborative certification system for Nature-based Solutions, NbS. The IUCN would coordinate existing sustainability certification programs... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WASHINGTON: Columbia River Toxic Site Proposed for Superfund](https://ens-newswire.com/washington-columbia-river-toxic-site-proposed-for-superfund/): Washington State moves Bradford Island at Bonneville Dam into Superfund cleanup position; U.S. Army Corps landfill is leaching toxics into the Columbia River.
- [PENNSYLVANIA: State to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Control Effort](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-state-to-join-regional-greenhouse-gas-control-effort/): HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, September 8, 2021 (ENS) – By the slimmest of margins, one vote, a Pennsylvania state commission has authorized a rule empowering the state to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI, a cooperative, market-based "cap and invest" program %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [COVID-19 Infected More Americans in 2020 than Official Tallies Show](https://ens-newswire.com/covid-19-infected-many-more-americans-in-2020-than-official-tallies-show/): BETHESDA, Maryland, September 7, 2021 (ENS) - At the end of last year, you may recall hearing news reports that the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States had topped 20 million. While that number came as truly sobering news, it also likely was an underestimate. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Hurricane Ida Survivors Get Help for Power, Home Restoration](https://ens-newswire.com/hurricane-ida-survivors-get-help-for-power-home-restoration/): Hurricane Ida downed power lines and leveled homes for over a million in Louisiana and Mississippi. Entergy is restoring power; FEMA offering free hotel rooms.
- [WHO Pandemic, Epidemic Intelligence Hub Opens in Germany](https://ens-newswire.com/who-pandemic-epidemic-intelligence-hub-opens-in-germany/): The intelligence to forecast, detect and assess future pandemic and epidemic risks worldwide will be collected and shared from a new WHO Hub in Berlin.
- [Judge Terminates Trump-era 'Dirty Water Rule'](https://ens-newswire.com/judge-terminates-trump-era-dirty-water-rule/): A federal judge has tossed the Trump-era revision of a rule governing the Waters of the United States that let industrial waste enter streams and wetlands.
- [U.S. Clean Air Enforcers Win Defeat Device Convictions](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-clean-air-enforcers-win-defeat-device-convictions/): WASHINGTON, DC, August 31, 2021 (ENS) - Electric vehicles are on their way to widespread acceptance, but as of June 2021, cumulative sales in the United States totaled just 1.98 million highway legal plug-in electric cars since 2010. Meanwhile, many U.S. drivers prefer diesel, be it clean - or not. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Ida Still Dangerous with Heavy Rains, Storm Surge, Power Outages](https://ens-newswire.com/ida-still-dangerous-with-heavy-rains-storm-surge-power-outages/): NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 30, 2021 (ENS) - Precisely 16 years after devastating Hurricane Katrina made landfall, another major hurricane hit southern Louisiana around noon on Sunday. Hurricane Ida came ashore at Port Fourchon with sustained winds of 150 miles (240 km) per hour. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Drought Blasts Syria & Iraq, Disrupts Power, Crops, Drinking Water](https://ens-newswire.com/drought-blasts-syria-iraq-disrupts-power-crops-drinking-water/): GENEVA, Switzerland, August 23, 2021 (ENS) - More than 12 million people in Syria and Iraq are losing access to water, food and electricity and urgent action is needed to combat a severe water crisis, 13 aid groups working in the region warned today. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Groups Petition U.S. EPA to Regulate Toxic Leaded Aviation Gas](https://ens-newswire.com/groups-petition-u-s-epa-to-regulate-toxic-leaded-aviation-gas/): NEW YORK, New York, August 26, 2021 (ENS) - Community groups from across the United States, together with the California's Santa Clara County, have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling on the EPA to regulate lead pollution from private aircraft, the largest remaining source of lead emissions in the country. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Brazil's Irreplaceable Wetlands and Rivers Drying Up](https://ens-newswire.com/brazils-irreplaceable-wetlands-and-rivers-drying-up/): SAO PAULO, Brazil, August 27, 2021 (ENS) - Brazil has lost 15 percent of its surface water in the past 30 years, finds a comprehensive analysis published on the new MapBiomas Water Platform. The extent of this water loss is so disturbing in a warming world that the global conservation organization WWF calls the report "alarming" and "shocking." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CONNECTICUT: Food-Grade Glass Recycling Introduced in 14 Towns](https://ens-newswire.com/connecticut-food-grade-glass-recycling-introduced-in-14-towns/): HARTFORD, Connecticut, August 27, 2021 (ENS) - Connecticut is facing a solid waste disposal crisis, and increasing the amount of recycled material is one of the ways state authorities believe they can solve it. To achieve this goal, the Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority, serving 258,100 people in 14 western Connecticut municipalities, has launched a new %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALABAMA: Tyson Foods Fined $3 Million for Wastewater Spill](https://ens-newswire.com/alabama-tyson-foods-fined-3-million-for-wastewater-spill/): MONTGOMERY, Alabama, August 27, 2021 (ENS) - The State of Alabama has agreed to a million settlement with Tyson Farms, Inc., the world's second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, over the company's 2019 wastewater spill in the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River. The Black Warrior River and its %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Hurricane Forecast: Henri Heads for New York, New England](https://ens-newswire.com/hurricane-forecast-henri-heads-for-new-york-new-england/): MIAMI, Florida, August 20, 2021 (ENS) - Hurricane Hunter Aircraft from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force Reserve flying into the midst of what is now Tropical Storm Henri off the coast of North Carolina report maximum sustained winds near 70 mph (110 km/h) with higher gusts. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MINNESOTA: 3M Groundwater Pollution Requires $700M Clean Water Plan](https://ens-newswire.com/minnesota-3m-groundwater-pollution-requires-700m-clean-water-plan/): ST. PAUL, Minnesota, August 20, 2021 (ENS) - The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Wednesday released a drinking water supply plan for the 14 communities affected by the 3M Company's water pollution in the East Metro, a three county area located just east of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [To Reduce Vehicle Pollution, a Single Atom Will Do](https://ens-newswire.com/to-reduce-vehicle-pollution-a-single-atom-will-do/): RICHLAND, Washington, August 18, 2021 (ENS) - Your ride might be a modest one, but if it burns gasoline, you have precious metals on board. To reduce pollution at the tailpipe, gasoline cars and trucks today come equipped with catalytic converters that contain platinum-group metals such as rhodium and palladium. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [TEXAS: Port of Corpus Christi to Install Blue Hydrogen Production](https://ens-newswire.com/port-of-corpus-christi-to-install-blue-hydrogen-production/): CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, August 22, 2021 (ENS) - The Port of Corpus Christi Authority and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC have executed an agreement to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first blue hydrogen production facility. Howard’s Javelina facility is positioned in the Port of Corpus Christi with pipeline connectivity to all %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Bloomberg Healthy Cities Partnership Expands to 70 Cities](https://ens-newswire.com/bloomberg-healthy-cities-partnership-expands-to-70-cities/): NEW YORK, New York, August 20, 2021 (ENS) - Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a million investment to bring six new cities on three continents into its Partnership for Healthy Cities network - Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALASKA: Court Halts Major Arctic Drilling Project](https://ens-newswire.com/alaska-court-halts-major-arctic-drilling-project/): ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 19, 2021 (ENS) - The Alaska Federal District Court Wednesday vacated the approval of a large oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan in Alaska’s Western Arctic. Originally approved by the Trump administration, the approval was defended in court by the Biden administration, despite its climate action pledges %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Hot, Hotter, Hottest July on Record](https://ens-newswire.com/hot-hotter-hottest-july-on-record/): ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, August 13, 2021 (ENS) - July 2021 was the hottest month ever documented on this planet since recordkeeping began 142 years ago, according to new global data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NORTH DAKOTA: Pipeline Co. Fined $36M for Huge Fracking Water Spill](https://ens-newswire.com/north-dakota-pipeline-co-fined-36m-for-huge-fracking-water-spill/): BISMARK, North Dakota, August 12, 2021 (ENS) - The U.S. Department of Justice has filed criminal and civil charges under the Clean Water Act against Summit Midstream Partners LLC, a North Dakota pipeline company that discharged 29 million gallons of produced water from its pipeline near Williston, North Dakota, over the course of nearly five %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MONTANA: Judge Sides With Youth Plaintiffs in Climate Case](https://ens-newswire.com/montana-judge-sides-with-youth-plaintiffs-in-climate-case/): HELENA, Montana, August 11, 2021 (ENS) - Sixteen young Montana residents who are suing the State of Montana for violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment have secured a critical victory when a District Court judge denied the state’s attempt to prevent their case, Held v. State of Montana, from proceeding to %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IMF Releases US$650 Billion 'Shot in the Arm' for the Global Economy](https://ens-newswire.com/imf-releases-us650-billion-shot-in-the-arm-for-the-global-economy/): WASHINGTON, DC, August 11, 2021 (ENS) - To address the global need for financial reserves during the current two-pronged public health and resulting financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors has approved a general allocation of Special Drawing Rights, SDRs, equivalent to US0 billion. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Ocean Protection Gets Financial, Technical & Management Talent](https://ens-newswire.com/ocean-protection-gets-financial-technical-management-talent/): ARLINGTON, Virginia, August 9, 2021 (ENS) - A new ocean conservation initiative is gathering force to protect 18 million square kilometers (seven million square miles) of the ocean over the next five years - an area twice the size of the continental United States and larger than the continent of South America. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [New UN Climate Report 'Code Red for Humanity'](https://ens-newswire.com/new-un-climate-report-code-red-for-humanity/): GENEVA, Switzerland, August 9, 2021 (ENS) - Climate change is widespread and rapidly intensifying, and some of the changes already in motion, such as continued sea level rise, are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years, finds the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, released today. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Ancient Olympia Saved From Wildfire, Arson Suspects in Custody](https://ens-newswire.com/ancient-olympia-saved-from-wildfire-arson-suspects-in-custody/): ATHENS, Greece, August 7, 2021 (ENS) - An extensive fire on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece has threatened the site of Ancient Olympia, where the first Olympic Games were held. Today, this is where the Olympic flame is passed to the first torchbearer of the upcoming Olympic Games, such as those currently coming to a close in Tokyo, Japan %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden Drives EV Demand With 2030 Net-Zero Emissions Ambitions](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-drives-ev-demand-with-2030-net-zero-emissions-ambitions/): WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2021 (ENS) - President Joe Biden leaves no doubt about his administration's policy on electric vehicles. "America must lead the world on clean and efficient cars and trucks," he declared in an Executive Order Thursday. "That means bolstering our domestic market by setting a goal that 50 percent of all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in 2030 be zero-emission vehicles %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Upcycling Turns Plastic Waste Into Oils, Foods](https://ens-newswire.com/upcycling-turns-plastic-waste-into-oils-foods/): AMES, Iowa, August 5, 2021 (ENS) - In pursuit of a circular economy that captures waste plastic before it contaminates the environment, scientists are transforming discarded plastic items, originally made from petroleum, right back into oil in the form of liquid lubricants such as hydraulic fluids, heat transfer fluids and greases. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Watertech Startup Products Make Blue-Green Algae Commit Suicide](https://ens-newswire.com/watertech-startup-products-make-blue-green-algae-commit-suicide/): TZUR HADASSAH, Israel, August 3, 2021 (ENS) – BlueGreen Water Technologies, Ltd., a global watertech company that provides innovative solutions to toxic algae blooms, has been named the Global Water Awards 2021 Breakthrough Technology Company of the Year by the publisher Global Water Intelligence. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Water Crisis Squeezes Lebanon](https://ens-newswire.com/water-crisis-squeezes-lebanon/): BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 4, 2021 (ENS) - More than four million people in Lebanon, including a million refugees, are at immediate risk of losing their access to safe water. Amid a rapidly escalating economic crisis, with shortages of funding, fuel, chlorine and spare parts, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NORTH DAKOTA: State OKs $3M in Drought Relief for Farmers, Ranchers](https://ens-newswire.com/north-dakota-state-oks-3m-in-drought-relief-for-farmers-ranchers/): BISMARCK, North Dakota, August 4, 2021 (ENS) - With 98 percent of the state suffering severe extreme, and exceptional drought, the North Dakota State Water Commission has approved two new water supply programs and allocated an additional million to the Drought Disaster Livestock Water Supply Project Assistance Program to help farmers and ranchers battling %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [PENNSYLVANIA: Copper Smelter Fined Again for Polluting Ohio River](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-copper-smelter-fined-again-for-polluting-ohio-river/): PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, August 4, 2021 (ENS) - Hussey Copper, manufacturer of copper for electric power lines and copper-nickel alloys for desalination plants, is being hit with a second big fine for releasing toxics into local waterways. Ordered last year to pay a 0,000 criminal fine for polluting the Ohio River at its Leetsdale smelting operation, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [COLORADO: Mudslides After Wildfire Trap Motorists, Close Highway](https://ens-newswire.com/colorado-mudslides-after-wildfire-trap-motorists-close-highway/): GOLDEN, Colorado, August 4, 2021 (ENS) - Mudslides stranded motorists overnight Thursday and shut down an interstate highway in Colorado, and after the latest round of heavy rain and flooding Saturday night, the state is preparing to issue a disaster declaration. At least 108 people were trapped in the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Rare, Exceptional Places Chosen for World Heritage Status](https://ens-newswire.com/rare-exceptional-places-chosen-for-world-heritage-status/): PARIS, France, August 3, 2021 (ENS) - Sheltering endangered animals, birds and butterflies, giant trees, pristine waters - five natural sites are so precious to the world that they deserve the protection of World Heritage status, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided. The five are now on the list, bringing the number of World Heritage natural sites to 218. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Europe Plans to Ban Cages for Farm Animals](https://ens-newswire.com/europe-plans-to-ban-cages-for-farm-animals/): BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 9, 2021 (ENS) - The European Commission has agreed to phase out cages for farmed animals across Europe in response to the "End the Cage Age," campaign of a European Citizens' Initiative, ECI %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Abandoned Tanker Sinks Off Yemen, Oil Leak Hits Nature Reserve](https://ens-newswire.com/abandoned-tanker-sinks-off-yemen-oil-leak-hits-nature-reserve/): ADEN, Yemen, July 27, 2021 (ENS) - A long-abandoned oil tanker has sunk off the south coast of Yemen near the Port of Aden in the Gulf of Aden leaving an oil slick for 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) along the shore, says Mohammed Amzarba, CEO of the Aden Ports Administration. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Invests $60 Million to Train Clean Energy Workforce](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-invests-60-million-to-train-clean-energy-workforce/): WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2021 (ENS) - A total of million will be going to 32 institutions of higher education located in 28 states to set up and operate regional Industrial Assessment Centers, the federal government's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced today. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [International Police Seize 15,000+ Tons Illegal Food, Beverages](https://ens-newswire.com/international-police-seize-15000-tons-illegal-food-beverage/): LYON, France, July 23, 2021 (ENS) - A 72-country law enforcement operation jointly coordinated by Interpol and Europol has uncovered "vast quantities" of illicit food and beverage products circulating throughout the global economy. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Oregon Seabird Wins Endangered Status Protection from Logging, Climate](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-seabird-wins-endangered-status-protection-from-logging-climate/): SALEM, Oregon, July 22, 2021 (ENS) - A rare seabird that feeds offshore but nests in mossy, coastal old-growth forests has just been listed as Endangered in Oregon. With this action, the marbled murrelet is now classed as Endangered from California to the U.S.-Canada border. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Satellites Detect Illegal Gold Mining in Peruvian Amazon](https://ens-newswire.com/satellites-detect-illegal-gold-mining-in-peruvian-amazon/): LIMA, Peru, July 23, 2021 (ENS) - Illegal gold mining is a widespread problem in the southern Peruvian Amazon; in the Madre de Dios region it has caused both river contamination and extensive deforestation. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ILLINOIS: Residents Sue for Damages as Raw Sewage Floods Homes](https://ens-newswire.com/illinois-residents-sue-for-damages-as-raw-sewage-floods-homes/): CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Illinois, July 21, 2021 (ENS) - The community group Centreville Citizens for Change and 24 individual residents are suing Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District and the City of Cahokia Heights in federal court. They are seeking a court order to stop years of raw sewage pollution and stormwater still flooding into their %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CALIFORNIA: Fires Force Utility to Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines](https://ens-newswire.com/california-fires-force-utility-to-bury-10000-miles-of-power-lines/): CHICO, California, July 21, 2021 (ENS) - Pacific Gas and Electric Company, PG&E, is implementing a new initiative to expand the undergrounding of electric distribution power lines in High Fire Threat Districts. The goal is to further harden its system and help prevent wildfires like the 2018 Camp Fire that forced the utility to declare %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden Protects World's Largest Coastal Temperate Rainforest](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-protects-worlds-largest-coastal-temperate-rainforest/): WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2021 (ENS) - Across the entire 16.7 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, full Roadless Rule protections are being restored and there will be an end to large-scale old-growth timber sales... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Floods Claim 170+ Lives in Germany, Belgium, as Waters Start to Recede](https://ens-newswire.com/torrential-rains-rising-waters-kill-dozens-in-germany-belgium/): BERLIN, Germany, July 17, 2021 (ENS) - While Germany's death toll from pounding rain and severe flooding stood at 67 on July 15, an official update on Saturday, July 17, shows the death toll up to at least 170 people... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden, Merkel Ink U.S.-Germany Climate and Energy Partnership](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-merkel-ink-u-s-germany-climate-and-energy-partnership/): WASHINGTON, DC, July 15, 2021 (ENS) - President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel today at the White House launched the U.S.-Germany Climate and Energy Partnership during her farewell visit to the United States ahead of Germany's September elections, in which she is not running. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [OREGON: Uncontained Bootleg Fire Threatens California Power Supply](https://ens-newswire.com/oregon-uncontained-bootleg-fire-threatens-california-power-supply/): MEDFORD, Oregon, July 12, 2021 (ENS) - Members of the public cannot fly drones near the exploding Bootleg Fire on the Fremont-Winema National Forest and on private lands in southern Oregon, the U.S. Forest Service is warning. Any drone activity will cause officials to ground all airborne firefighting resources. Helicopters and fixed wing water and %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Cash Prizes to Reward Best Photos of European Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/cash-prizes-to-reward-best-photos-of-european-climate-change/): COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 11, 2021 (ENS) - The European Environment Agency is inviting photographers to capture what climate change looks like in Europe and how Europeans are coping with it by entering the photo contest Climate Change PIX by August 1. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NEW YORK: Apartment Building Owners Offered Help to Lower CO2 Emissions](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-apartment-building-owners-offered-help-to-lower-co2-emissions/): ALBANY, New York, July 9, 2021 (ENS) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is adding nearly million to the financial and technical resources available to owners or managers of multifamily buildings so they can implement low-carbon solutions as part of planned upgrades. Working through the state's Low Carbon Pathways for Multifamily Buildings program, this %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Millions of Children Poisoned by Flood of Toxic E-Waste](https://ens-newswire.com/millions-of-children-poisoned-by-flood-of-toxic-e-waste/): GENEVA, Switzerland, July 9, 2021 (ENS) - Effective, binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical or electronic devices finds a ground-breaking report from the World Health Organization, "Children and Digital Dumpsites. "With mounting volumes of %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Northern California Burns as Biden Vows Help to Fight Fires](https://ens-newswire.com/northern-california-burns-as-biden-vows-help-to-fight-fires/): WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2021 (ENS) - Hundreds of Northern California residents living between historic Mt. Shasta and the city of Weed have been evacuated from their homes as two fires burning in Siskiyou County exploded overnight, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [VIRGINIA & NORTH CAROLINA: Commercial Offshore Wind Parks on Deck](https://ens-newswire.com/virginia-north-carolina-commercial-offshore-wind-parks-on-deck/): NORFOLK, Virginia, July 4, 2021 (ENS) - The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, BOEM, is starting its environmental review for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial, or CVOW-C, project. This is a big deal because, if approved, it will be the first commercial offshore wind farm in Virginia's Atlantic Ocean waters. To announce this %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Blue Whales Found Singing Offshore India's West Coast](https://ens-newswire.com/blue-whales-found-singing-offshore-indias-west-coast/): KOCHI, Kerala, India, July 5, 2021 (ENS) - Endangered blue whales are present and singing off the southwest coast of India, scientists from the University of Washington demonstrate in a new research study of an area once plundered by illegal Soviet whalers. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Roach-sized Robot Can Search Accident, Disaster Scenes](https://ens-newswire.com/roach-sized-robot-can-search-accident-disaster-scenes/): BERKELEY, California, July 4, 2021 (ENS) - A team of Chinese engineers working at the University of California, Berkeley have created a tiny, lightweight, durable robot that achieves unique control and agility by modulating the electrostatic %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [2,500 Scientists Take the Pulse of Earth's Tropical Forests](https://ens-newswire.com/2500-scientists-take-the-pulse-of-earths-tropical-forests/): LEEDS, UK, July 3, 2021 (ENS) - A global network of researchers is cooperatively investigating tropical forests wherever they grow on the planet to explore the effects of climate change on the forests and the diverse creatures they shelter. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [2,500 Scientists Take the Pulse of Earth's Tropical Forests](https://ens-newswire.com/2500-scientists-take-the-pulse-of-earths-tropical-forests/): LEEDS, UK, July 3, 2021 (ENS) - A global network of researchers is cooperatively investigating tropical forests wherever they grow on the planet to explore the effects of climate change on the forests and the diverse creatures they shelter. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Button-Activated Face Masks Can Diagnose COVID-19](https://ens-newswire.com/button-activated-face-masks-can-diagnose-covid-19/): BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 2, 2021 (ENS) - Scientists have found a way to embed synthetic biology-based sensors into fabrics, creating wearable biosensors that can be programmed to detect pathogens and toxins and to alert the wearer via a companion smartphone app. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IOWA: Year-round Sale of E15 Ethanol Blend Blocked in Court](https://ens-newswire.com/iowa-year-round-sale-of-e15-ethanol-blend-blocked-in-court/): DES MOINES, Iowa, July 2, 2021 (ENS) - Corn producers across the country, and especially in the corn-growing state of Iowa, are dismayed by an appeals court ruling Friday that reversed a 2019 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that lifted restrictions on the year-round sale of 15 percent ethanol fuel blend (E15). Before the EPA %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [30 Innovative Project Winners Ease British Rail Shakeup](https://ens-newswire.com/30-innovative-project-winners-ease-british-rail-shakeup/): LONDON, UK, July 2, 2021 (ENS) - A host of new technologies to encourage rail passengers to ride British trains again post-COVID-19 have received UK government financial backing as part of the Department for Transport's 2021 "First of a Kind" competition. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden, Dems Crack Down on Methane Emissions to Benefit Climate](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-dems-crack-down-on-methane-emissions-to-benefit-climate/): WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2021 (ENS) - President Joe Biden signed into law today a Resolution of Disapproval that invalidates the Trump administration’s 2020 Methane Rescission Rule and reinstates two stricter Obama-era methane-emission rules %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [PENNSYLVANIA: 1,000 Electric Vehicle Chargers Placed Statewide](https://ens-newswire.com/pennsylvania-1000-electric-vehicle-chargers-placed-statewide/): HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, June 29, 2021 (ENS) - Patrick McDonnell, who heads Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, DEP, is celebrating the fact that 1,000 Level 2 electric vehicle chargers have been installed across the state, especially in small towns, with funding from the DEP Driving PA Forward program. The Level 2 program is one of eight %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden's Transatlantic Pacts Feature Climate Care, Green Growth](https://ens-newswire.com/bidens-transatlantic-pacts-feature-climate-care-green-growth/): BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 15, 2021 (ENS) - Environmental concerns, especially about the consequences of climate change, are on the minds of U.S. President Joe Biden and the European leaders he has met with over the past two days %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [HAWAII: U.S. Government Returns Land to Native Hawaiians](https://ens-newswire.com/hawaii-u-s-government-returns-land-to-native-hawaiians/): HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 16, 2021 (ENS) - U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to head a Cabinet agency, allowed her emotions to show Monday as she announced the transfer of 80 acres of surplus federal land to a trust for Native Hawaiians. "The Native Hawaiian Community has waited more than 20 years %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Climate Puts Great Barrier Reef World Heritage 'In Danger'](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-puts-great-barrier-reef-world-heritage-in-danger/): GLAND, Switzerland, June 24, 2021 (ENS) - The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, the official advisor on nature to UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, has recommended that the world's largest reef, Australia's Great Barrier Reef be placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Anger Rises Over Oil Drilling in Endangered Elephants’ 'Last Stronghold'](https://ens-newswire.com/anger-rises-over-oil-drilling-in-endangered-elephants-last-stronghold/): WINDHOEK, Namibia, June 23, 2021 (ENS) - The Canadian oil and gas company Reconnaissance Energy Africa, or ReconAfrica, is currently drilling for oil in Namibia, with further exploration in Botswana moving forward too. Ultimately, the company aims "to develop an area roughly the size of Belgium into an oil field." according to activists against the exploration. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ALABAMA: First State to Process Graphite, Critical for Electric Cars](https://ens-newswire.com/alabama-first-state-to-process-graphite-critical-for-electric-cars/): MONTGOMERY, Alabama, June 22, 2021 (ENS) - Westwater Resources Inc. plans to build a first-of-its-kind advanced graphite processing plant in Alabama, placing the state at the forefront in the production of an essential material in batteries for electrical vehicles, electronics and other green energy products and equipment, Governor Kay Ivey announced Tuesday. A Colorado company, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Strong Winds to Spin Power Turbines for Vietnam, Laos](https://ens-newswire.com/strong-winds-to-spin-power-turbines-for-vietnam-laos/): TOKYO, Japan, June 22, 2021 (ENS) - Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation has just boosted development of what will be Southeast Asia’s largest onshore wind farm in southern Laos, by announcing a major investment in the project. Power from the wind farm will be sold to Vietnam Electricity %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [90+ NGOs Urge EU Parliament to Rethink 'Green' Finance List](https://ens-newswire.com/90-ngos-urge-eu-parliament-to-rethink-green-finance-list/): BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 21, 2021 (ENS) - More than 90 environmental and consumer groups have appealed to the European Parliament to postpone their judgement on sustainable finance rules that would allow logging and the burning of trees to be counted as green investments. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Warming Stripes on Weather Reports Show Climate Change Is Here](https://ens-newswire.com/warming-stripes-on-weather-reports-show-climate-change-is-here/): GENEVA, Switzerland, June 21, 2021 (ENS) - Broadcast meteorologists and climate scientists are uniting today – the Summer/Winter Solstice - for "Show Your Stripes" day to raise awareness of the urgent need to act on climate change. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IOWA: Recyclers Encouraged to Take Selfies, Send Them In](https://ens-newswire.com/iowa-recyclers-encouraged-to-take-selfies-send-them-in/): DES MOINES, Iowa, June 20, 2021 (ENS) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is launching a new "I Am a Recycler" campaign statewide, focusing on improving recycling efforts throughout Iowa. "Iowans have been recycling for 40 years, and we capture a lot of recyclable materials each year," said Jennifer Wright, supervisor with the DNR’s %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MICHIGAN: Governor Whitmer Proposes $250M for State Parks, Trails](https://ens-newswire.com/michigan-governor-whitmer-proposes-250m-for-state-parks-trails/): LANSING, Michigan, June 20, 2021 (ENS) - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer wants to invest 0 million in federal relief dollars from President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan in state parks and trails and to address the backlog of park infrastructure projects, which will help support Michigan businesses and local economies. "Tourism is vital to Michigan's %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CO2 Speeds Tropical Forest Growth, Slowing Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/co2-speeds-tropical-forest-growth-slowing-climate-change/): Tropical forests have a bigger appetite for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than many scientists have believed - even greater than that of temperate forests, finds a new study led by NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR.
- [World's Forests at the Mercy of Commodity Supply Chains](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-forests-at-the-mercy-of-commodity-supply-chains/): Only a small minority of the power brokers controlling the global commodity supply chains that drive the world's tropical deforestation are able to meet demand without destroying forests, finds the first ranking of these powerful players.
- [Global Forest Restoration Goal Grows](https://ens-newswire.com/global-forest-restoration-goal-grows/): New forest restoration initiatives were announced by Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa at the second international Bonn Challenge conference on forest landscape restoration taking place in Germany on the weekend.
- [Earth's Green Cover Increasing Despite Deforestation](https://ens-newswire.com/earths-green-cover-increasing-despite-deforestation/): China's large-scale tree planting efforts and increasing rainfall on three continents have contributed to an increase in the total amount of vegetation on Earth over the past decade - reversing previous global forest loss.
- [Illicit Wildlife, Gold, Timber Trade Funds DRC Conflict](https://ens-newswire.com/illicit-wildlife-gold-timber-trade-funds-drc-conflict/): Organized crime funded by illegal trade in natural resources is fueling the 20-year-long conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has cost the lives of several million people, the UN Environment Programme reports.
- [Global Deforestation Slows But Forests Still Shrinking](https://ens-newswire.com/global-deforestation-slows-but-forests-still-shrinking/): Over the past 25 years the rate of global deforestation has slowed by more than 50 percent, even though the world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forested land is developed, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization
- [Greenpeace, Monsanto: Two Visions of Brazil's Forest Future](https://ens-newswire.com/greenpeace-monsanto-two-visions-of-brazils-forest-future/): Greenpeace today delivered a bill banning all deforestation in Brazil to members of the Brazilian National Congress. Since 2012, the draft bill has been signed by 1.4 million Brazilians.
- [Smoke From Indonesia's Illegal Fires Chokes SE Asia](https://ens-newswire.com/smoke-from-indonesias-illegal-fires-chokes-se-asia/): Fires started illegally to clear land for oil palm and acacia pulp plantations in Indonesia are sending thick smoke over the Southeast Asian region, making breathing painful, closing schools, canceling outdoor events and disrupting air traffic.
- [Fires Destroy Amazon Rainforest at Record Pace](https://ens-newswire.com/fires-destroy-amazon-rainforest-at-record-pace/): South America's Amazon rainforest is burning in many places, blazing away so fiercely that the fires are visible from space. Smoke from the fires, mostly burning in southern Brazil, has reached Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, more than 1,700 miles away.
- [Caribou, Old-growth Forest Losers in BC Logging Plans](https://ens-newswire.com/caribou-old-growth-forest-losers-in-bc-logging-plans/): Days after the province of British Columbia announced a new provincial approach to old-growth forests, conservation groups are sounding the alarm on plans to log more than three square kilometres of intact rainforest north of Revelstoke, destroying critical habitat for the endangered southern mountain caribou.
- [Police Target the Most Lucrative of Environmental Crimes](https://ens-newswire.com/police-target-the-most-lucrative-of-environmental-crimes/): A decade of forestry crime operations, fighting the looting of natural resources such as timber and charcoal in some of the world’s poorest countries, has given the international police force, Interpol, some powerful tools to carry on the fight against its powerful adversaries.
- [G7 Leaders Agree Global Agenda to 'Build Back Better'](https://ens-newswire.com/g7-leaders-agree-global-agenda-to-build-back-better/): FALMOUTH, Cornwall, UK, June 13, 2021 (ENS) - The leaders of the world's seven wealthiest democracies, the Group of Seven, G7, underlined their shared democratic values in today's agreement to "beat COVID-19 and build back better." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [G7 Summit Stimulates Green Legacy for Cornwall](https://ens-newswire.com/g7-summit-stimulates-green-legacy-for-cornwall/): FALMOUTH, Cornwall, United Kingdom, June 13, 2021 (ENS) - Now that the G7 leaders have held their 2021 summit meeting and moved on, Cornwall, the region of England where they met, will benefit from new investment in its natural landscape %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [California Students Illustrate Protection for World Oceans Day](https://ens-newswire.com/california-students-illustrate-protection-for-world-oceans-day/): SANTA ANA, California, June 8, 2021 (ENS) - After a year when distance learning became standard in California schools, hundreds of elementary students from across the state have joined virtually to send an artistic message of protection to the oceans %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Historic G7 Billion Covid Vaccine Donation Falls Short of Need](https://ens-newswire.com/historic-g7-billion-covid-vaccine-donation-falls-short-of-need/): FALMOUTH, Cornwall, UK, June 12, 2021 (ENS) - Hosted by the UK, the Group of Seven Leaders' Summit this weekend in Cornwall aims to unite the wealthiest democracies to help the world build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic and create a greener, more prosperous future. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WASHINGTON: Hydropower Company Fined Over Sports Turf in River](https://ens-newswire.com/washington-hydropower-company-fined-for-sports-turf-in-river/): OLYMPIA, Washington, June 10, 2021 (ENS) - The Washington Department of Ecology has fined the company Electron Hydro, LLC half a million dollars for discharging discarded plastic sports turf into the Puyallup River last summer. The Electron Hydroelectric Project, originally known as the Puyallup Project, is a 22 MW hydroelectric power plant operated by Electron %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [KENTUCKY: $250M in Federal Relief Will Fix Water Infrastructure](https://ens-newswire.com/kentucky-250m-in-federal-relief-will-fix-water-infrastructure/): FRANKFORT, Kentucky, June 10, 2021 (ENS) – Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, has announced a Better Kentucky Plan that will help the state create 14,500 jobs to deliver clean drinking water and quality sewer systems, build better schools and expand the internet across Kentucky. Funded by President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan Act, the %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NORTH CAROLINA: Governor Orders Expansion of Offshore Wind Power](https://ens-newswire.com/north-carolina-governor-orders-expansion-of-offshore-wind-power/): RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 10, 2021 (ENS) - North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, Wednesday issued an executive order emphasizing North Carolina’s commitment to offshore wind power as the state transitions to a clean energy economy. The executive order highlights the economic and environmental benefits of offshore wind and directs actions to help North %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [IDAHO, MONTANA: Forest Service Protection Sought for At Risk Wolves](https://ens-newswire.com/93831/): BOZEMAN, Montana, June 10, 2021 (ENS) – A coalition of wildlife advocates and hunters, represented by the non-profit environmental law firm Earthjustice, Wednesday asked the U.S. Forest Service to issue new protections for wolves in designated wilderness areas following Idaho and Montana’s enactment of anti-wolf laws. Submitted to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and top Forest %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Oceans' Distress Motivates Action For a Day and a Decade](https://ens-newswire.com/oceans-distress-motivates-action-for-a-day-and-a-decade/): NEW YORK, New York, June 8, 2021 (ENS) - Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth and produce at least half of the planet’s oxygen, the United Nations reminds us every year on June 8, observed as World Oceans Day. Oceans are %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Hits Four Million Year High](https://ens-newswire.com/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-hits-four-million-year-high/): Atmospheric CO2 is now what it was four million years ago, close to or above 400 parts per million, as measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
- [Corporate Giants Set Sustainable Mobility Goals](https://ens-newswire.com/corporate-giants-set-sustainable-mobility-goals/): PARIS, France, June 6, 2021 (ENS) - Ten global business leaders have joined forces to promote sustainable mobility, and more than 250 other organizations committed to increase the sustainability of their transportation during a global summit organized by the French mobility giant Michelin. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UN Head: 'We Still Have Time' to Heal the Earth](https://ens-newswire.com/un-head-we-still-have-time-to-heal-the-earth/): NEW YORK, New York, June 6, 2021 (ENS) - "We are ravaging the very ecosystems that underpin our societies," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned in his message for World Environment Day, observed every year on June 5. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Thousands Block Oil Pipeline at Mississippi River Headwaters](https://ens-newswire.com/thousands-block-oil-pipeline-at-mississippi-river-headwaters/): BEMIDJI, Minnesota, June 7, 2021 (ENS) - In Minnesota’s largest ever anti-pipeline mobilization, water protectors Monday morning halted construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands crude oil pipeline. Over 1,000 people marched with Indigenous leaders to the headwaters of the Mississippi River for a treaty ceremony %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Thousands Block Oil Pipeline at Mississippi River Headwaters](https://ens-newswire.com/thousands-block-oil-pipeline-at-mississippi-river-headwaters/): BEMIDJI, Minnesota, June 7, 2021 (ENS) - In Minnesota’s largest ever anti-pipeline mobilization, water protectors Monday morning halted construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands crude oil pipeline. Over 1,000 people marched with Indigenous leaders to the headwaters of the Mississippi River for a treaty ceremony %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [World Central Kitchen Feeds Hungry People in Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/world-central-kitchen-feeds-hungry-people-in-crisis/): GAZA CITY, May 28, 2021 (ENS) - During the past week, close to 100,000 people were displaced in Gaza due to escalating violence and airstrikes between Israel and Hamas and many are now hungry. At least 2,800 families have lost %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Piano for the Planet Zoom Concert Funds Climate Advocates](https://ens-newswire.com/piano-for-the-planet-zoom-concert-funds-climate-advocates/): LOS ANGELES, California, May 28, 2021 (ENS) - Concert pianist Dr. Ayse Taspinar feels an obligation to raise awareness of climate change, so she is hosting a virtual House Party fundraiser for Vote Climate U.S. Political Action %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CALIFORNIA: Wind Farms Off U.S. Pacific Coast Poised for Permitting](https://ens-newswire.com/california-wind-farms-off-u-s-pacific-coast-poised-for-permitting/): SACRAMENTO, California, May 26, 2021 (ENS) - The federal departments of the Interior and Defense and the State of California have agreed to accelerate wind energy development offshore the central and northern coasts of California. The deal advances the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of creating thousands of jobs through the deployment of 30 gigawatts of offshore %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MASSACHUSETTS: First U.S. Commercial Offshore Wind Park Approved](https://ens-newswire.com/massachusetts-first-u-s-commercial-offshore-wind-park-approved/): NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts, May 26, 2021 (ENS) - To be located in the Atlantic Ocean 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, the first commercial-scale offshore wind park in the United States, received approval last week in a Record of Decision from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, BOEM, the final %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Tire Makers Drive Global Sustainability Goals With New Roadmap](https://ens-newswire.com/tire-makers-drive-global-sustainability-goals-with-new-roadmap/): GENEVA, Switzerland, May 26, 2021 (ENS) - Eleven of the world's largest tire companies care about the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs. These 17 aspirational goals were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 to address some of the world’s most pressing issues by 2030. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Friends of the Earth Wins Historic Climate Verdict Against Shell](https://ens-newswire.com/friends-of-the-earth-wins-historic-climate-verdict-against-shell/): THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, May 26, 2021 (ENS) - For the first time in history, a judge has held a corporation liable for causing climate change. Today, as a result of legal action brought by Friends of the Earth Netherlands, together with 17,000 co-plaintiffs and six other organizations %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [First Greek Wildfire of the Season Ravages Forested Mountains](https://ens-newswire.com/first-greek-wildfire-of-the-season-ravages-forested-mountains/): ATHENS, Greece, May 24, 2021 (ENS) - Six villages and two Orthodox Christian monasteries have been evacuated ahead of a giant wildfire raging in Greece's Geraneia mountain range about 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of the capital. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Groups Halt Logging on Yellowstone National Park Border](https://ens-newswire.com/groups-halt-logging-on-yellowstone-national-park-border/): WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana, May 24, 2021 (ENS) - The U.S. Forest Service has responded to a formal challenge from four environmental groups by halting a plan to clearcut more than 4,600 acres of pine forests, log across an %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [TEXAS: $23M Pedestrian-Wildlife Bridge and Skywalk Opens in San Antonio](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-23m-pedestrian-wildlife-bridge-and-skywalk-opens-in-san-antonio/): SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 24, 2021 (ENS) - There was a time, not very long ago when deer got killed and caused traffic accidents trying to cross the busy six-lane Wurzbach Parkway, which bisects a giant park in San Antonio. But now the United States' largest wildlife crossing, complete with Skywalk for pedestrians, unifies the %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [G20 Health Ministers Dissolve Barriers to Sharing Billion+ Vaccine Doses](https://ens-newswire.com/g20-health-ministers-dissolve-barriers-to-sharing-billion-vaccine-doses/): ROME, Italy, May 23, 2021 (ENS) - Leaders of the G20 have committed to a series of actions to accelerate the end of the COVID-19 crisis throughout the world and better prepare for future pandemics. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Tax Status Complaint Targets Group Battling Biden’s 30 by 30 Land Plan](https://ens-newswire.com/tax-status-complaint-targets-group-battling-bidens-30-by-30-land-plan/): WASHINGTON, DC, May 17, 2021 (ENS) - Government watchdog Accountable.US has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service requesting an investigation of the nonprofit American Stewards of Liberty for operating as %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Tax Status Complaint Targets Group Battling Biden’s 30 by 30 Land Plan](https://ens-newswire.com/tax-status-complaint-targets-group-battling-bidens-30-by-30-land-plan/): WASHINGTON, DC, May 17, 2021 (ENS) - Government watchdog Accountable.US has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service requesting an investigation of the nonprofit American Stewards of Liberty for operating as %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [International Uranium Film Festival Streams Online, For Free](https://ens-newswire.com/international-uranium-film-festival-streams-online-for-free/): RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 17, 2021 (ENS) - The 10th International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro, the world’s largest film fest about everything nuclear and radioactive, starts streaming online Thursday, May 20, open to all %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Planet Earth At Risk of Methane Suffocation](https://ens-newswire.com/planet-earth-at-risk-of-methane-suffocation/): PARIS, France, May 15, 2021 (ENS) - Methane emissions caused by human activities can be reduced by up to 45 percent this decade, finds the world's first Global Methane Assessment just issued by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a voluntary partnership led by governments, and the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis](https://ens-newswire.com/global-warming-has-shifted-earths-axis/): WASHINGTON, DC, May 16, 2021 (ENS) - Glacial melting due to climate change is likely the cause of a shift in the movement of the poles that occurred in the 1990s, new research from China shows %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Wealthy Nations Asked to Delay Youth Vaccines, Donate to COVAX](https://ens-newswire.com/wealthy-nations-asked-to-delay-youth-vaccines-donate-to-covax/): GENEVA, Switzerland, May 14, 2021 (ENS) - Scanty vaccine supplies in low and lower-middle income countries cannot cover even the innoculation of health care workers, the head of the World Health Organization, WHO, warned today, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Next-Gen Holograms Float, Move in Thin Air](https://ens-newswire.com/next-gen-holograms-float-move-in-thin-air/): PROVO, Utah, May 9, 2021 (ENS) - Hologram experts can now create real-life images that move in the air. Using lasers to create the displays of science fiction inspired by Star Wars and Star Trek %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [WasteShark, the Swimming Drone, Devours Marine Trash](https://ens-newswire.com/wasteshark-the-swimming-drone-cleans-water-collects-data/): ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, April 5, 2021 (ENS) - The Rotterdam-based startup RanMarine Technology has built a drone that swims rather than flies. The WasteShark travels waterways to collect litter, biomass, plastics, microplastic and other debris using a basket underneath... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Biden Administration Debuts Decade of Conservation](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-administration-debuts-decade-of-conservation/): WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2021 (ENS) - The Biden administration has proposed a nationwide goal to conserve 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030 - the nation’s first conservation goal. The proposal for a voluntary, locally-led "America the Beautiful Initiative" is contained in a new report calling for a decade-long effort to support %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Taking Aim at Space Junk](https://ens-newswire.com/taking-aim-at-space-junk/): The first in-space test of technologies to clean up the thousands of pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth was launched on April 2 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station.
- [WASHINGTON: New Law Promotes Hydrogen-powered Vehicles](https://ens-newswire.com/washington-new-law-promotes-hydrogen-powered-vehicles/): OLYMPIA, Washington, May 6, 2021 (ENS) - Washington Governor Jay Inslee Monday signed a bill that establishes an eight-year state-wide pilot project for the reduction of sales tax on purchases of fuel cell electric vehicles. The bill, SB 5000, was authored by Washington State Senator Brad Hawkins, who said after the signing, "Our state is %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [South Africa to End Captive Lion Breeding](https://ens-newswire.com/south-africa-to-end-captive-lion-breeding/): CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 5, 2021 (ENS) - South Africa has announced it will stop the abusive practices of captive breeding and canned hunting of lions and will phase out captive rhino breeding. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Denmark to Invest Millions in Wind, Wave, Hydro, Solar Power](https://ens-newswire.com/denmark-to-invest-millions-in-wind-wave-hydro-solar-power/): BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 4, 2021 (ENS) - A Danish aid plan to support electricity production from renewable sources has won the approval of the European Commission. Denmark will invest €400 million (nearly US1 million) to %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Police Find 1,600+ Marine Pollution Crimes in 30 Days](https://ens-newswire.com/police-find-1600-marine-pollution-crimes-in-30-days/): LYON, France, May 4, 2021 (ENS) - Thousands of suspects, companies and criminal networks engaged in maritime pollution have been detected and dozens arrested in a global operation %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [ILLINOIS: Lawmakers Consider Bill to Phase Out Coal, Natural Gas](https://ens-newswire.com/illinois-lawmakers-consider-bill-to-phase-out-coal-natural-gas/): SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, May 4, 2021 (ENS) - The Consumers and Climate First Act was introduced in the Illinois General Assembly last week to provide a path for Illinois to help lead the nation's transition to a clean energy economy. The bill serves as a starting point - a series of markers intended to help guide %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Forests Don't Offset as Much CO2 as Countries Claim](https://ens-newswire.com/forests-dont-offset-as-much-co2-as-countries-claim/): BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 28, 2021 (ENS) - A giant gap between the amount of greenhouse gases countries report emitting and the amount of these heat-trapping gases independent scientists estimate from global models that the countries actually emit, a scientific team led by... %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [LOUISIANA: Pine Slash to Feed New Green Diesel Plant](https://ens-newswire.com/93575/): BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 23, 2021 (ENS) - Kansas-based Strategic Biofuels has announced that the company’s subsidiary, Louisiana Green Fuels, plans to develop a renewable diesel plant in northern Louisiana as the first in a chain of refineries that would produce renewable aviation fuel as well as diesel. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Strategic %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [MAINE: Governor Puts Electric Cars on 10-Year Fast Track](https://ens-newswire.com/maine-governor-puts-electric-cars-on-10-year-fast-track/): AUGUSTA, Maine, April 22, 2021 (ENS) - Maine Governor Janet Mills has signed an executive order requiring that a "clean transportation roadmap" be drawn that will help the state hit its climate goal of rapidly multiplying the number of electric vehicles on its roads by 2030. The roadmap, due by December, will develop recommendations to %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Salt Pollution Threatens Human Water Security](https://ens-newswire.com/93550/): BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 22, 2021 (ENS) - "Inland freshwater salt pollution is rising nationwide and worldwide, and we investigated the potential conflict between managing freshwater salt pollution and the sustainable practice of increasing water supply through the addition of highly treated wastewater to surface waters and groundwaters," said Stanley Grant, professor of civil and environmental %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Innovative STAR Tool Reduces Species Extinction Risk](https://ens-newswire.com/innovative-star-tool-reduces-species-extinction-risk/): GLAND, Switzerland, April 22, 2021 (ENS) - The new Species Threat Abatement and Restoration, STAR, metric developed by conservationists for the first time allows business, governments and civil society to assess their potential contributions to reducing global species loss %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Power Sector Halfway to Zero CO2 Emissions](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-power-sector-halfway-to-zero-co2-emissions/): BERKELEY, California, April 20, 2021 (ENS) - Climate change concerns are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations to set the goal of zeroing out heat-trapping carbon emissions from the power sector. To date, 17 states plus Washington, DC and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders to achieve 100 percent carbon-free %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [U.S. Power Sector Halfway to Zero CO2 Emissions](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-power-sector-halfway-to-zero-co2-emissions/): BERKELEY, California, April 20, 2021 (ENS) - Climate change concerns are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations to set the goal of zeroing out heat-trapping carbon emissions from the power sector. To date, 17 states plus Washington, DC and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders to achieve 100 percent carbon-free %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Tobacco Use Costs the World US$1.4 Trillion Each Year](https://ens-newswire.com/tobacco-use-costs-the-world-us1-4-trillion-each-year/): GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20, 2021 (ENS) - Tobacco kills up to half of its users, and the human and economic costs of tobacco are on the rise, the World Health Organization, WHO, is warning. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [A World at Risk: Royal Astronomer Looks Ahead](https://ens-newswire.com/a-world-at-risk-royal-astronomer-looks-ahead-to-2050/): CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 21, 2021 (ENS) - From bioengineered pandemics to city-ravaging cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could soon change radically due to humanity's impact on the planet, the UK's Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, is warning. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Quieter Oceans Offer a Rare Chance to Listen](https://ens-newswire.com/quieter-oceans-offer-a-rare-chance-to-listen/): WOODS HOLE, Mass, April 22, 2021 (ENS) - Coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions and economic slowdowns slammed the brakes on human activities in the oceans starting last spring and ongoing. Noise levels are down %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Exposing 'Deepfake Geography'](https://ens-newswire.com/exposing-deepfake-geography/): SEATTLE, Washington, April 22, 2021 (ENS) - A fire in New York's Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show fireworks exploding. But it's "location spoofing." %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NORTH DAKOTA: Dakota Pipeline Protest Leader LaDonna Allard Dies at 64](https://ens-newswire.com/north-dakota-dakota-pipeline-protest-leader-ladonna-allard-dies-at-64/): FORT YATES, North Dakota, April 20, 2021 (ENS) - LaDonna Tamakawastewin (Good Earth Woman) Brave Bull Allard (1956-2021), Native American Dakota and Lakota historian, genealogist, and a matriarch of the water protector movement, has passed away. Allard died on April 10 at her home in Fort Yates, after a battle with brain cancer. She was %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [3D Printing Plant Hits Zero Waste To Landfill Status](https://ens-newswire.com/3d-printing-plant-hits-zero-waste-to-landfill-status/): DUSSELDORF, Germany, April 20, 2021 (ENS) - Henkel’s, the German firm founded in 1876 that today manufactures adhesives and resins for 3D printing, has achieved zero production waste to landfill status at its Dixon facility in California. Achieving this status is a global initiative %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Autonomous Air Taxis Planned for Miami, Los Angeles](https://ens-newswire.com/autonomous-air-taxis-planned-for-miami-los-angeles/): MIAMI, Florida, April 22, 2021 (ENS) - Autonomous air taxis will fly the skies over Miami, Florida by 2024, if plans by California-based Archer Aviation come to fruition. The company's Miami announcement came a week after Archer executives met with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Haaland Confirmed 1st Indigenous Secretary of Interior](https://ens-newswire.com/haaland-confirmed-as-first-indigenous-secretary-of-the-interior/): History was made today as the U.S. Senate voted 51-40 to confirm President Joe Biden's nominee Congresswoman Debra Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. After she is sworn in, Haaland will be the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary. In 2018, she became one of the first two Native women elected to Congress.
- [Haaland Confirmed 1st Indigenous Secretary of Interior](https://ens-newswire.com/haaland-confirmed-as-first-indigenous-secretary-of-the-interior/): History was made today as the U.S. Senate voted 51-40 to confirm President Joe Biden's nominee Congresswoman Debra Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. After she is sworn in, Haaland will be the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary. In 2018, she became one of the first two Native women elected to Congress.
- [EV Charging Network to Spread Across American Heartland](https://ens-newswire.com/ev-charging-network-to-spread-across-american-heartland/): Six large U.S. utilities have announced a plan to ensure drivers of electric vehicles have access to a seamless network of charging stations connecting major highways in the South, Midwest, Gulf and Central Plains regions of the United States. The Edison Electric Institute estimates 18 million electric vehicles will be on U.S. roads by 2030.
- [Trash by the Ton Cleared Off Remote Hawaiian Beaches](https://ens-newswire.com/trash-by-the-ton-cleared-off-remote-hawaiian-beaches/): In the Hawaiian Islands, the past year was plagued with travel and gathering limitations due to COVID-19, yet The Nature Conservancy’s Hawaii Chapter and partners were able to remove more than 46,000 pounds of marine debris from Moloka'i’s remote beaches in the last quarter of 2020 alone.
- [Invaluable: Waters Clean Enough to Drink](https://ens-newswire.com/invaluable-waters-clean-enough-to-drink/): Clean drinkable water is rare and precious. Of the waters that cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, roughly 97 percent is the salt water of the oceans; just three percent is freshwater. Of that, only 1.2 percent can be used as drinking water; the rest is locked up in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, or stored too far beneath the surface to be retrieved. Much of the accessible freshwater has become polluted.
- [Young California Bears Fall Ill With Inflamed Brains](https://ens-newswire.com/young-california-bears-fall-ill-with-inflamed-brains/): A small, black bear showed up at a utility worksite in the tiny, tree-lined town of Pollock Pines, California last month. It was alone and possibly sick - lethargic and showing little fear of people. The bear was unmoved by the workers' attempts to shoo it away by yelling and clapping.
- [New Book Links Southeast Asia's Wildlife Trade to COVID](https://ens-newswire.com/new-book-links-southeast-asias-wildlife-trade-to-covid/): "The price of the private dining room would be included in the price of the pangolin, along with the rest of the dinner." In this excerpt from his new book, "Pangolins: Scales of Injustice," wildlife conservationist Richard Peirce recounts a trip to Vietnam during which, within 15 minutes in one restaurant, he was offered both of the animals that are the likely vectors for COVID-19 and SARS.
- [Toyota Builds Hydrogen-Powered City](https://ens-newswire.com/toyota-builds-hydrogen-powered-city/): TOKYO, Japan, April 8, 2021 (ENS) - Toyota is undertaking an enormous project - but on a small scale - a prototype city of the future on a 175-acre site at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. Called the Woven City, it is designed as a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells and solar, where residents get around in driverless, automated vehicles. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Invaders Attack U.S. Forests, Public Lands](https://ens-newswire.com/invaders-attack-u-s-forests-public-lands/): MADISON, Wisconsin, April 8, 2021 (ENS) - "Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade," U.S. Forest Service scientists conclude %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Restoration and Recovery on Earth Day 2021](https://ens-newswire.com/leaders-seek-to-restore-the-planet-on-earth-day-2021/): WASHINGTON, DC, April 18, 2021 (ENS) - "Earthday.org is honored that the Biden Administration has decided to convene a global climate summit on Earth Day 2021, said Earthday.org President Kathleen Rogers. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Blackout Circles the World Tonight for Earth Hour](https://ens-newswire.com/blackout-circles-the-world-tonight-for-earth-hour/): Wherever you are at 8:30 o'clock tonight, it will be Earth Hour, so turn off your lights for one hour to recognize the health of the planet and the importance of nature. Earth Hour is the flagship environmental action of the international nonprofit WWF, one of the world's largest conservation organizations.
- [Building a 'World That Works for Women'](https://ens-newswire.com/building-a-world-that-works-for-women/): "Simply put, our world does not yet work for women as it should," Vice President Kamala Harris today told the European Parliament on the occasion of International Women’s Day, marked annually on March 8. The first woman in U.S. history elected to the vice presidency, Harris said, "...The question before us is simple. How do we build a world that works for women?"
- [Reinventing the Future of Food](https://ens-newswire.com/reinventing-the-future-of-food/): Technologies like 3-D printing and lab-based meat now enable us to create food in new ways that have left the whole world with an array of new possibilities. "There are so many exciting things going on in the food science area," says David McClements, professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts.
- [Latam, Caribbean Leaders Enter Circular Economy Accord](https://ens-newswire.com/latam-caribbean-leaders-enter-circular-economy-accord/): A new initiative to support Latin America and the Caribbean in transitioning to a circular economy is underway. The Regional Coalition on Circular Economy will support and promote access to financing by governments and the private sector, with special emphasis on small and medium enterprises.
- [Changing Climate Top Threat to Natural World Heritage](https://ens-newswire.com/changing-climate-top-threat-to-natural-world-heritage/): Climate change is now the biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites with their incomparable landscapes, rare ecological processes, critical habitat and exceptional biodiversity, finds a new assessment by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN.
- [Texas Oil Co Fined Millions for Fouling Wyoming Waters](https://ens-newswire.com/texas-oil-co-fined-millions-for-fouling-wyoming-waters/): A settlement has been reached between the U.S. government and the oil and gas company Fleur de Lis Energy, which has agreed to pay $1.9 million for violating the Clean Water Act in Wyoming. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with field operations in Texas and Wyoming.
- [Russian Tanker First to Sail Arctic Sea Route in Winter](https://ens-newswire.com/russian-tanker-first-to-sail-arctic-sea-route-in-winter/):  The Arctic's icy Northern Sea Route is melting, allowing the Russian icebreaking LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie to complete her experimental round trip voyage across the Arctic in winter. For the first time in history, due to climate warming, the Arctic ice has thawed enough to allow a large-capacity cargo vessel to transit the eastern portion of the Northern Sea Route in January.
- [Canada's Top Court Upholds Trudeau's Carbon Tax](https://ens-newswire.com/canadas-top-court-upholds-trudeaus-carbon-tax/): In a political win for Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Supreme Court of Canada today ruled that the Liberal Government's carbon tax law is constitutional because climate change is a threat to the entire country and demands a coordinated national approach.
- [Blowing Snow, Ice Storms Paralyze Much of United States](https://ens-newswire.com/blowing-snow-ice-storms-paralyze-much-of-united-states/): More than 100 million Americans are currently under Winter Storm Warnings, Winter Storm Watches, or Winter Weather Advisories as coast-to-coast stormy winter weather is hitting them now or is forecast by the National Weather Service.
- [Tarry Oil From Unknown Source Fouls Israeli Beaches](https://ens-newswire.com/tarry-oil-from-unknown-source-fouls-israeli-beaches/): The level of tarry pollution on Israel's Rosh Hanikra Beach near the Lebanese border is now rated medium-heavy, after new lumps of tar washed ashore on Sunday after volunteers had worked to clean it. New tar was also found on Tel Baruch Beach in Tel Aviv, Bustan Hagalil, and Hamachalim Beach in Haifa.
- [African Elephants Classed as Two Species, Both Endangered](https://ens-newswire.com/african-elephants-classed-as-two-species-both-endangered/): Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat over the past five decades have taken a grim toll on African elephants. The African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant, Loxodonta africana, is listed as Endangered on the authoritative IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
- [Biden Invites 40 World Leaders to Climate Summit](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-invites-40-world-leaders-to-climate-summit/): President Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders to participate in a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate he will host on Earth Day April 22 and on the following day April 23, fulfilling a promise he made during his first week in office. The virtual Leaders Summit will be live-streamed for public viewing.
- [ILLINOIS: Wildlife Habitat Protection 101 for Landowners](https://ens-newswire.com/illinois-encourages-wildlife-habitat-protection-among-landowners/): SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 5, 2021 (ENS) - No longer do populations of bears, cougars or wolves exist in Illinois, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Now the agency has launched a website that aims to engage both public and private sectors in habitat protection, restoration, and biodiversity conservation through voluntary action so the %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [NEW MEXICO: New Law Bans Traps, Snares, Poisons on Public Lands](https://ens-newswire.com/new-mexico-new-law-bans-traps-snares-poisons-on-public-lands/): SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 5, 2021 (ENS) - New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, today signed into law a bill banning traps, snares, and poisons on public lands across the state nicknamed The Land of Enchantment. Called “Roxy’s Law” in honor of a cattle dog who was strangled to death in a %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [FLORIDA: Toxic Phosphate Wastewater Leak Triggers Evacuations](https://ens-newswire.com/florida-toxic-phosphate-wastewater-leak-triggers-evacuations/): PALMETTO, Florida, April 4, 2021 (ENS) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis traveled today to Manatee County to meet state and local officials as Florida struggles with uncontrolled toxic discharges from the former Piney Point phosphate processing plant. Several breaches in a wall around a 480-million gallon wastewater reservoir have been leaking for days after heavy %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [CALIFORNIA & NEVADA: EPA Stops Sale of Unregistered Disinfectant](https://ens-newswire.com/california-nevada-epa-stops-sale-of-unregistered-disinfectant/): SAN FRANCISO, California, April 5, 2021 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered four companies to stop selling the unregistered disinfectant FN Nano Photocatalytic coatings, aka FN Coatings, FN NANO2 Photocatalytic Film. "This product is an unregistered disinfectant pesticide being sold in violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, FIFRA," the %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Borneo Rainforest Shelters Bird Lost 172 Years Ago](https://ens-newswire.com/borneo-rainforest-shelters-bird-lost-172-years-ago/): Muhammad Suranto and Muhammad Rizky Fauzan, who both live in Indonesia’s South Kalimantan province, were gathering forest products in an area near their homes when they stumbled upon an unfamiliar bird species. They caught and released the bird after taking photographs.
- [Filming The Power of Youth](https://ens-newswire.com/filming-the-power-of-youth/): If you don’t want to miss out on the virtual and educational opportunity of a lifetime, you'll want to attend the world premiere of “Youth v. Gov,” a documentary based on an innovative lawsuit by Our Children’s Trust, which seeks science-based action by governments to stabilize the climate system.
- [America Rejoins World Accord to Limit Climate Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/america-rejoins-world-accord-to-limit-climate-crisis/): The community of nations welcomed the United States back into the Paris Climate Accord on Friday with the approval of American conservationists, politicians on both sides of the aisle and thousands of non-federal climate leaders who launched America is All In, a coalition to drive a society-wide mobilization for bold climate ambition.
- [Puerto Rican Jailed for Trafficking Protected Corals](https://ens-newswire.com/puerto-rican-jailed-for-trafficking-protected-corals/): A Puerto Rican man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for felonies involving the trafficking and false labeling of protected reef creatures in an effort to avoid Puerto Rican laws developed to protect sea life on coral reefs.
- [Dow Chemical Fined Millions for Illegal Flaring](https://ens-newswire.com/dow-chemical-fined-millions-for-illegal-flaring/): Thousands of tons of air pollution emitted in flares by four manufacturing facilities in Texas and Louisiana will be reduced under a settlement reached by the companies in January with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.
- [Silica-Silver Plastic Film Kills Coronavirus on Contact](https://ens-newswire.com/silica-silver-plastic-film-kills-coronavirus-on-contact/): A plastic film that can deactivate 99.99 percent of the virus that causes COVID-19 in 15 minutes has been released by an international team of companies and universities from Brazil and Spain. The product, AlpFilm Protect PVC, is now on the market and is being used to pack meat, fruit, vegetables and cold meats, and to protect surfaces.
- [Biden Lifts Emergency on U.S.-Mexico Border, Stops Wall](https://ens-newswire.com/biden-lifts-emergency-on-u-s-mexico-border-stops-wall/): A national emergency no longer exists at the U.S. southern border with Mexico; it has been terminated after nearly two years. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation that ends the national emergency first declared by former President Donald Trump on February 15, 2019, and twice renewed.
- [Youth Climate Case Headed for U.S. Supreme Court](https://ens-newswire.com/youth-climate-case-headed-for-u-s-supreme-court/): The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, without explanation, today denied the request of 21 young people to have a full panel of the court hear their climate case against the U.S. Government. "We will now seek review in the U.S. Supreme Court," declared the plaintiffs' Eugene-based law firm Our Children's Trust,
- [Dreams During Pandemic Reveal Fear, Mental Suffering](https://ens-newswire.com/dreams-during-pandemic-reveal-fear-mental-suffering/): Amid the isolation imposed by COVID-19, the brain resorts to dreams in an effort to metabolize the intense emotions experienced during the day and assimilate experiences that favor survival as we strive to adapt to the "new normal."
- [Paradise Closing: Oil Drilling Begins in Okavango Delta](https://ens-newswire.com/paradise-closing-oil-drilling-begins-in-okavango-delta/): The fate of one of Africa’s most valuable ecosystems will depend on results from wells being drilled deep into the bedrock beneath the Kalahari Desert of northern Namibia and Botswana in the hunt for a petroleum reservoir. If the search by Canadian oil and gas company ReconAfrica is successful, the region could be irrevocably transmogrified...
- [President Biden: It's Time to Act on 'Climate Crisis'](https://ens-newswire.com/president-biden-its-time-to-act-on-climate-crisis/): "Today is Climate Day at the White House, which means that today is Jobs Day at the White House," President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday morning. "We’re talking about American innovation, American products, American labor. And we’re talking about the health of our families and cleaner water, cleaner air, and cleaner communities.
- [Seaweed-Loving Crabs Help Restore Caribbean Corals](https://ens-newswire.com/seaweed-loving-crabs-help-restore-caribbean-corals/): With the dangers of climate change increasing at a rapid rate, Caribbean coral reefs are in decline, overcome by seaweed. Now scientists think that they have found a solution for the infested reefs - herbivorous crabs that enjoy a seaweed diet.
- [Emergency or Not? Peoples' Climate Vote Polls 1.2 Million](https://ens-newswire.com/emergency-or-not-peoples-climate-vote-polls-1-2-million/): "Urgent climate action has broad support amongst people around the globe, across nationalities, age, gender and education levels," declared United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner today as he released the results of the first Peoples’ Climate Vote. With 1.2 million respondents, it's the largest survey of public opinion on climate ever conducted.
- [Living Near Trees Prevents Blood Vessel Damage](https://ens-newswire.com/living-near-trees-prevents-blood-vessel-damage/): Living near an abundance of green plants and trees can offset the negative effects of air pollution on blood vessel health, according to a first-of-its-kind study published ahead of print in the "American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology."
- [World Leaders Reach for Climate Adaptation Strategies](https://ens-newswire.com/world-leaders-reach-for-climate-adaptation-strategies/): As Earth's climate heats up, a new international coalition is forming to tackle the impacts of global climate change, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday. Johnson was speaking at the virtual Netherlands-hosted Climate Adaptation Summit- the first global summit focused solely on adaptation and resilience.
- [Teens Press Climate Cases in Courts Across the World](https://ens-newswire.com/teens-press-climate-cases-in-courts-across-the-world/): Climate change is worsening by the year, threatening to make the planet unliveable for people now in their teens and early twenties. Because government actions are often at the root of climate warming, young Americans have taken the first legal steps in what has become a global youth climate movement.
- [NOAA Triples Gulf of Mexico Marine Sanctuary Area](https://ens-newswire.com/noaa-triples-gulf-of-mexico-marine-sanctuary-area/): One of the last acts of the outgoing Trump administration was taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, which has tripled the area protected by the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico.
- ['Reset Earth' Animated Film, Game Aims to Inspire Gen Z](https://ens-newswire.com/reset-earth-animated-film-game-aims-to-inspire-gen-z/): The United Nations Ozone Secretariat is about the last place a Gen Zer might look for a fun new mobile game, but that's about to change on Sunday, January 24, World Education Day, when the Secretariat will release "Reset Earth," an innovative educational platform about the fundamental protective role of the ozone layer.
- [President Joe Biden Protects Environment on Day One](https://ens-newswire.com/president-joe-biden-protects-environment-on-day-one/): "A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear," President Joe Biden declared today in his Inaugural Address on the steps of the Capitol building after he was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
- [Day One: President Biden to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline](https://ens-newswire.com/day-one-president-biden-to-reject-keystone-xl-pipeline/): A series of executive orders expected from President Joe Biden on his first day in office, January 20, include many that affect the environment. Among his actions on Day One, Biden intends to sign an order to rescind the construction permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline expansion granted in 2019 by President Donald Trump.
- [Trump Auctions Off Arctic Refuge Land to Oil Companies](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-auctions-off-arctic-refuge-land-to-oil-companies/): The Trump administration has begun to auction off roughly one-third of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. It is no coincidence that this lease sale was announced with only a few weeks left in the Trump presidency, as President Donald Trump is eager to kickstart Arctic oil drilling before leaving the White House on January 20.
- [Biden's Green Team Takes Shape With Race, Gender Firsts](https://ens-newswire.com/bidens-green-team-takes-shape-with-race-gender-firsts/): President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on January 20 at noon, has nominated a team of seasoned environmental leaders to fill his Cabinet in positions that will impact the Earth's unique places, people, and species, now more vulnerable than ever after the Trump administration. Climate will be a top priority of Biden’s core plan for a "clean energy revolution and environmental justice."
- [U.S. Hanford Nuclear Site to Glassify Plutonium Waste](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-hanford-nuclear-site-to-glassify-plutonium-waste/): The U.S. Department of Energy is poised to complete a cleanup commitment that has been decades in the making - immobilizing in glass the least radioactive portion of the tank waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington State.
- [Guterres Urges Quick Shift: Fossil Fuels to Renewables](https://ens-newswire.com/guterres-urges-quick-shift-fossil-fuels-to-renewables/): NEW YORK, New York, January 11, 2021 (ENS) - Building a global coalition for carbon neutrality by mid-century will be the United Nation’s "central objective," the UN’s top official told an online climate conference Monday. "All countries need credible mid-term goals and plans that are aligned with this objective," Secretary-General António Guterres said, %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [UK Rolls Out New Vaccine, But Lockdown Ordered](https://ens-newswire.com/uk-rolls-out-oxford-university-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine/): The very first people received the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine today as the National Health Service expands COVID-19 vaccination programs across the UK. The NHS is the first health service in the world to deploy the life-saving vaccine,
- [Largest Coal-fired Power Plant in U.S. West Demolished](https://ens-newswire.com/largest-coal-fired-power-plant-in-u-s-west-demolished/): For 45 years the Navajo Generating Station was the largest coal-fired power plant in the western United States - a 2.25-gigawatt facility located on the Navajo Nation, near Lake Powell in Arizona that spread air pollution far and wide. In November 2019, the plant ended commercial generation, and on Friday, its three tall smokestacks all went down in smoke.
- [Secret Canada-U.S. Plastic Waste Trade Deal Revealed](https://ens-newswire.com/secret-canada-u-s-plastic-waste-trade-deal-revealed/): Environmental groups are calling a secret agreement on plastic wastes signed between Canada and the United States "illegal, unacceptable and dangerous."
- [$100 Million for a More Sustainable Fashion Industry](https://ens-newswire.com/100-million-for-a-more-sustainable-fashion-industry/): Two fashion organizations, one on each side of the globe - the nonprofit H&M Foundation in Stockholm and the government of Hong Kong's Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel, HKRITA, are investing in a more sustainable fashion future by extending their presence in the Planet First program.
- [U.S. Hispanics High Risk for Arsenic in Drinking Water](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-hispanics-high-risk-for-arsenic-in-drinking-water/): Community water systems that fail to comply with the federal arsenic standard are most likely to occur in the Southwest, serving Hispanic communities, rural populations of around 1,000, and those who rely on groundwater, finds a new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
- [Electoral College Affirms Biden Headed for White House](https://ens-newswire.com/electoral-college-affirms-biden-headed-for-white-house/): The U.S. Electoral College has formally elected the Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and incumbent U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris as president and vice president of the United States. Two of every three eligible citizens, over 159 million people voted, the highest number since 1900.
- [New Trump EPA Rule Slow-Walks Clean Air Regulations](https://ens-newswire.com/new-trump-epa-rule-slow-walks-clean-air-regulations/): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a procedural rule that the agency says will "improve the rulemaking process under the Clean Air Act by establishing requirements to ensure consistent, high-quality analyses of benefits and costs are provided to the public for significant rules."
- [The Killing of Killer Whales](https://ens-newswire.com/the-killing-of-killer-whales/): When marine predators themselves face mortal threats, researchers at the University of British Columbia studying orca deaths in Pacific Ocean waters believe that human tampering with the ocean is to blame.
- [Deadly 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Smashes Records](https://ens-newswire.com/deadly-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-smashes-records/): The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is finally over, after a record-breaking 30 named storms and 12 landfalling storms in the continental United States, breaking a record set in 1916. While the official hurricane season ended November 30, tropical storms have continued to develop.
- [Oil and Gas Firms Take Initiative on Methane Emissions](https://ens-newswire.com/oil-and-gas-firms-take-initiative-on-methane-emissions/): Major players in the oil and gas industry such as Shell, BP and Total have agreed to report emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane with a new, much higher level of transparency. The goal is to enable the oil and gas industry to realize deep reductions in methane emissions over the next decade in a way that is transparent to civil society and governments.
- [Australian Radio Telescope Maps Universe at Warp Speed](https://ens-newswire.com/australian-radio-telescope-maps-universe-at-warp-speed/): A radio telescope in the outback of Western Australia is creating a new atlas of the universe at astonishing speed, mapping some three million galaxies in just 300 hours.
- [World's Best Wild Salmon Run Protected From Huge Mine](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-best-wild-salmon-run-protected-from-huge-mine/): The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied a permit to the proposed Pebble Mine, a giant copper and gold mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska that would threaten the world’s largest, most valuable wild salmon fishery. The decision met with approval from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress as well as environmental groups, but the mining company was "dismayed" by the ruling
- [GM Quits Trump Suit to Strip California's Emissions Control](https://ens-newswire.com/gm-quits-trump-suit-to-strip-californias-emissions-control/): General Motors CEO Mary Barra said on Monday the company is pulling out of a lawsuit led by the Trump administration against California over the state’s right to set its own fuel economy and emissions regulations, effective immediately. Barra said the company is taking this action because it supports President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to expand electrification of cars.
- [Leapin' Lizards: Argentine Tegus Run Wild in Georgia](https://ens-newswire.com/leapin-lizards-argentine-tegus-run-wild-in-georgia/): ATLANTA, Georgia, November 24, 2020 (ENS) - Georgia wildlife officials and their partners are scrambling to eradicate a wild population of large invasive black and white Argentine lizards called tegus in two counties in southeast Georgia. Growing from two to four feet long and weighing 10 pounds or more, this lizard native to South America is an invasive species that threatens Georgia wildlife.
- [John Kerry to Head Biden Administration's Climate Team](https://ens-newswire.com/john-kerry-to-head-biden-administrations-climate-team/): President-elect Joe Biden today announced key members of his foreign policy and national security team including, for the first time, a Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. To fill this new role, Biden has chosen former Secretary of State John Kerry.
- [Wary Funders Drop Proposed South African Coal Plant](https://ens-newswire.com/wary-funders-drop-proposed-south-african-coal-plant/): "Major climate impacts and exorbitant costs have sounded the death knell" for one of the last new proposed coal-fired power stations in South Africa - Thabametsi power station in water-scarce Limpopo province, says the Centre for Environmental Rights.
- [Bezos Opens $10 Billion Earth Fund With Climate Grants](https://ens-newswire.com/bezos-opens-10-billion-earth-fund-with-climate-grants/): Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, is giving nearly $800 million to 16 environmental groups in the first donations from his $10 billion Earth Fund. in February, Bezos announced the creation of his personal $10 billion Earth Fund, designed to support what Bezos has called “needle-moving solutions” to the climate crisis.
- [Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Nearly 95% Effective](https://ens-newswire.com/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-nearly-95-percent-effective/): Moderna, a Massachusetts biotechnology company pioneering therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, has been rated 94.5 percent effective by the U.S. government.
- [Leaking Oil Tanker Abandoned Off Yemen a Red Sea Risk](https://ens-newswire.com/leaking-oil-tanker-abandoned-off-yemen-a-red-sea-risk/): Technical experts must be granted immediate access to a rusting oil supertanker threatening an environmental calamity in the Red Sea, an independent United Nations expert is demanding. Abandoned five years ago when its engine room flooded with seawater, the leaking 44-year-old tanker FSO Safer still holds 1.1 million barrels of light crude oil.
- [Nicaragua, Honduras Again in Path of Monster Hurricane](https://ens-newswire.com/nicaragua-honduras-again-in-path-of-monster-hurricane/): The Category 5 Hurricane Iota now bearing down on Central America is expected to bring catastrophic winds, life-threatening storm surge, and torrential rainfall. It's about to smash into Nicaragua and Honduras near where powerful Hurricane Eta struck just two weeks ago.
- [Pfizer 1st With COVID Vaccine, Claims Over 90% Efficacy](https://ens-newswire.com/pfizer-1st-with-covid-vaccine-claims-over-90-efficacy/): Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is the first company to announce a successful vaccine candidate that is safe and effective in preventing COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2.
- [Pandemic Forces Enviro Film Fest in D.C. to Go Virtual](https://ens-newswire.com/pandemic-forces-enviro-film-fest-in-d-c-to-go-virtual/): The largest green film festival in the world and the longest-running film fest in the United States, the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, DCEFF, has announced its virtual fall showcase starting November 12 and running until November 18.
- [UN Virtual Climate Dialogues to Fill COP26 Gap](https://ens-newswire.com/un-virtual-climate-dialogues-to-fill-cop26-gap/): The Climate Dialogues, a series of virtual climate change events, will be offered by the United Nations from November 23 to December 4, 2020. This year, virtual events are taking the place of the annual in-person UN climate change conference, so that all work on implementing the Paris climate accord does not grind to a halt in the face of the pandemic.
- [Calling All Film-Makers](https://ens-newswire.com/calling-all-film-makers/): The opportunity has arrived for young film-makers to submit an original short film to the second Health for All Film Festival sponsored by the World Health Organization, WHO. The first Health for All Film Festival in 2019 was a great success, raking in a total of 1,300 short film submissions from over 110 countries.
- [Trump Pushes Gray Wolf off Endangered Species List](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-pushes-gray-wolf-off-endangered-species-list/): To the dismay of conservationists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has opened hunting season on gray wolves across the United States by removing them from the national Endangered Species List. Farmers, cattlemen and ranchers applauded the delisting, but conservationists issued dire warnings, and a coalition of conservation groups is going to court to reverse the rule.
- [President-elect Biden to Restore U.S. Climate Leadership](https://ens-newswire.com/president-elect-biden-to-restore-u-s-climate-leadership/): Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declared President-elect of the United States on Saturday after slow, meticulous vote-counting that kept the nation on edge for four days. Biden, a Democrat, campaigned on a strong climate restoration platform, starting with bringing the United States back into the Paris Climate Agreement on day one of a Biden administration.
- [Hurricane Eta Kills 3 Central Americans, Aims at Florida](https://ens-newswire.com/hurricane-eta-kills-3-central-americans-aims-at-florida/): Slow-moving, wet and windy, Hurricane Eta made landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday afternoon. Eta had maximum sustained winds near 140 mph at landfall, but by Wednesday morning the winds had dropped to 70 mph winds, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
- [Trump Opens Alaska's Tongass National Forest to Logging](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-opens-alaskas-tongass-national-forest-to-logging/): President Donald Trump’s administration has finalized plans to reverse roadless protections for the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska that have been in place for nearly 20 years. 
- [Virus Quarantines World Health Organization Chief](https://ens-newswire.com/virus-quarantines-world-health-organization-chief/): The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is in quarantine tonight as he has been exposed to the coronavirus he has been battling every day since early January, COVID-19.
- [Zeta Strikes Louisiana, Fifth Hurricane This Season](https://ens-newswire.com/zeta-strikes-louisiana-third-hurricane-this-season/): Hurricane Zeta has just made landfall as a 110 mile per hour, Category 2 hurricane near Cocodrie, Louisiana, a fishing, shrimping and crabbing village in Terrebonne Parish, due south of the city of Houma. It's the third hurricane to hit Louisiana since late August.
- [French Companies Integrate Biodiversity Impact Assessment](https://ens-newswire.com/french-companies-integrate-biodiversity-impact-assessment/): A tool that will allow investors to measure how their investments impact biodiversity - the diversity of plants and animals - is one step closer to completion now that a consortium of some of France's largest investors have selected the Iceberg Data Lab based in Paris and the French environmental consulting company I Care & Consult as the developers of the tool.
- [COVID Virus Lives 28 Days on Money, Cellphone Screens](https://ens-newswire.com/covid-virus-lives-28-days-on-money-cellphone-screens/): The virus responsible for COVID-19 can survive for up to 28 days on common surfaces including banknotes, glass items such as cellphone screens, and stainless steel. Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have found that the virus SARS-CoV-2, tended to survive longer on smooth surfaces compared to porous complex surfaces such as cotton.
- [New Smart Windows Generate Power as They Change Color](https://ens-newswire.com/new-smart-windows-generate-power-as-they-change-color/): A thermochromic window that darkens automatically in the sun and simultaneously uses the sun to generate electricity has been invented by scientists at the chemistry and nanoscience center within the U.S. Dept. of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL.
- [U.S. Renewable Energy Lab Energizes Remote Communities](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-renewable-energy-lab-energizes-remote-communities/): In rural Northern California, inland American Indian reservations risk being "islanded" from the larger electricity grid should a wildfire disable the single transmission line that delivers power to their homes, businesses, and critical services providers.
- [Trump vs Biden: Environment in the Final Debate](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-vs-biden-environment-in-the-final-debate/): Republican President Donald Trump and his challenger in the November 3 election former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, faced off in their second and final debate Thursday night. They disagreed on everything - especially climate change.
- [Legal? Trump's Raid on Military Funds for Border Wall](https://ens-newswire.com/legal-trumps-raid-on-military-funds-for-border-wall/): The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether the Trump administration must stop building sections of the southern border wall with Mexico. The administration is appealing a lower court decision that it illegally diverted money appropriated by Congress for military salaries and pensions to the wall project.
- [Back at White House, Infected Trump Tears Off His Mask](https://ens-newswire.com/back-at-white-house-infected-trump-tears-off-his-mask/): President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday evening aboard his helicopter just before seven, and his first actions alarmed health professionals. Still infected with COVID-19, Trump quickly removed his face mask. He appeared to be gasping for breath, but Trump urged Americans not to fear the deadly coronavirus that sent him to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
- [India Halts Amnesty International's Human Rights Work](https://ens-newswire.com/india-halts-amnesty-internationals-human-rights-work/): The freezing of Amnesty International India’s bank accounts by the Government of India on September 10 has brought all the work being done by the human rights organization to a grinding halt. Amnesty has been compelled to lay off staff in India and pause all its ongoing campaign and research work.
- [President Trump Hospitalized for COVID-19 Treatment](https://ens-newswire.com/president-trump-hospitalized-for-covid-19-treatment/): President Donald Trump is in a military hospital under treatment for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. A statement from the president's physician Sean Conley, DO, a U.S. Navy commander, says he was first diagnosed with COVID-19 on the evening of Thursday, October 1.
- [Trump Rude, Biden Cool in First Presidential Debate](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-rude-biden-cool-in-1st-presidential-debate/): Climate change and environmental protection were two of the many flashpoints during the first 2020 presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday.
- [California Phases Out Gas Cars to Fight Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/california-phases-out-gas-cars-to-fight-climate-change/): All new passenger vehicles sold in California must be zero-emission by 2035, under a new executive order issued by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday. Newsom also ordered additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector.
- [Worst Whale Stranding in Australian History: Hundreds Die](https://ens-newswire.com/worst-whale-stranding-in-australian-history-hundreds-die/): Tasmanian environmental authorities are coordinating the disposal of a mass of whale carcasses after about 470 long-finned pilot whales washed ashore in the shallow waters of Macquarie Harbour on the island state's west coast.
- [New Expert Alliance Maps Water Risk Globally](https://ens-newswire.com/new-expert-alliance-maps-water-risk-globally/): Array %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [African Lion 'Threatened' Listing Proposed Under U.S. Law](https://ens-newswire.com/african-lion-threatened-listing-proposed-under-u-s-law/): WASHINGTON, DC, October 27, 2014 (ENS) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed listing the African lion as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, saying its analysis finds the lions are "in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future."
- [Daimler to Pay $1.5 Billion for Fake Emissions Tests](https://ens-newswire.com/daimler-to-pay-1-5-billion-for-fake-emissions-tests/): The U.S. and California governments have proposed a settlement with German automaker Daimler AG and its American subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA that would resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and California law associated with diesel emissions cheating in about 250,000 cars and vans.
- [Hurricane Laura Roughs Up Louisiana, Texas, Kills 18](https://ens-newswire.com/hurricane-laura-roughs-up-louisiana-texas-kills-18/): One of the 10 strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States, Hurricane Laura came onshore, striking Louisiana in the middle of the night of August 26-27. Sustained winds of 150 mph ripped off roofs, knocked over trailer homes, and toppled trees and power lines.
- [Trump Again Assaults Alaska’s Tongass National Forest](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-again-assaults-alaskas-tongass-national-forest/): The Trump administration has announced plans for a timber sale that would destroy more than 5,100 acres of old-growth habitat in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. At 16.7 million acres, the Tongass is the largest intact temperate rainforest left on Earth. As a global carbon sink, it eases the worst of climate change and offers habitat for eagles, bears, wolves, and salmon. 
- [Software Foils Poachers With Rare Rhinos' Footprints](https://ens-newswire.com/software-foils-poachers-with-rare-rhinos-footprints/): Interactive software that reads and analyzes footprints left by black rhinoceroses can be used to monitor the movements of the critically endangered animals in the wild, giving conservationists a new way to help keep them safe from poachers.
- [Climate Change Intensifies Despite Pandemic Lockdowns](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-change-intensifies-despite-pandemic-lockdowns/): Already at their highest levels in three million years, greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere continue to increase, lockdowns around the world to slow the spread of the pandemic coronavirus have forced vehicles to stay parked, making way for clearer skies - temporarily.
- [Rampaging Fires Send U.S. Western Forests Up in Smoke](https://ens-newswire.com/rampaging-fires-send-u-s-western-forests-up-in-smoke/): Smoke filled the air in this university city on Tuesday, turning the sky orange and the sun red, as it did across much of the U.S. West. Thousands of firefighters are battling raging wildfires driven by extreme heat and hot, gusty winds that are threatening forests and residential areas across the region.
- ['Extremely Dangerous' Hurricane Laura Slams Gulf Coast](https://ens-newswire.com/extremely-dangerous-hurricane-laura-slams-gulf-coast/): "Catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding" are expected along the northwest Gulf Coast tonight as Laura, an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane, blows inland, with landfall forecast overnight near the Louisiana-Texas border.
- [Congo Imprisons Elephant Poacher for 30 Years](https://ens-newswire.com/congo-imprisons-elephant-poacher-for-30-years/): A criminal court in the Republic of Congo has sentenced a notorious poacher and ivory trafficker, Mobanza Mobembo Gérard, alias Guyvanho, to 30 years in prison for the attempted murder of park rangers, trafficking of ivory from poached elephants, possession of military weapons, and other charges.
- [Michigan to Pay Flint $600 Million for Water Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/michigan-to-pay-flint-600-million-for-water-crisis/): The State of Michigan has agreed to a $600 million settlement of civil lawsuits brought against the state by residents of the city of Flint after the source of the city's water supply was switched from clean Lake Huron to the tainted Flint River on April 25, 2014. The majority of the money will be going to settle claims filed on behalf of children exposed to toxics...
- [Deadly California Fires Roar Through Ancient Redwoods](https://ens-newswire.com/deadly-california-fires-roar-through-ancient-redwoods/): First came the heatwave, then thousands of lightning strikes, now hundreds of fires. The fires in the Bay Area and around Northern California have forced at least 77,000 evacuations and claimed five lives. And the flames have reached through protected groves of some of the oldest and largest trees on Earth - California's coastal redwoods.
- [Trump Opens Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-opens-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-to-oil-and-gas/): The Trump administration completed plans Monday to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, a move that will permit natural resource exploitation in the core of one of America's most treasured wild areas.
- [Climate High Priority for Biden-Harris Democratic Ticket](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-high-priority-for-biden-harris-democratic-ticket/): In their first campaign appearance together as running mates, Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for President, and his newly announced vice presidential choice, Senator Kamala Harris, both mentioned their climate plan. It would invest $2 trillion over four years in clean energy and environmental justice.
- [South Africa’s Live Wild Animal Trade to China Exposed](https://ens-newswire.com/south-africas-live-wild-animal-trade-to-china-exposed/): CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 26, 2020 (ENS) - Chimpanzees, Bengal tigers, wolves, wild dogs and lions are among thousands of endangered wild animals exported from South Africa to China, sometimes in contravention of regulations imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), often in shameful conditions. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Tropical Storm Isaias Brings Death to U.S. East Coast](https://ens-newswire.com/tropical-storm-isaias-turns-deadly-in-new-york/): Tropical Storm Isaias is racing north-northeastward across eastern New York near the state's capital city Albany, carrying strong gusty winds, heavy rainfall and the threat of tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.
- [Tonnes Seized as Pandemic Motivates Food Fraud](https://ens-newswire.com/tonnes-seized-as-pandemic-motivates-food-fraud/): Dairy products contaminated with bacteria, meat from illegally slaughtered animals and food products falsely labeled as medicinal cures were all part of more than US$40 million worth of potentially dangerous fake food and drink seized by police and customs officers in an Interpol-coordinated action.
- [Trump Sued to Stop Assault on Bedrock Environmental Law](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-sued-to-stop-assault-on-bedrock-environmental-law/): A nationwide coalition of more than 20 nonprofit organizations from the environmental justice, outdoor recreation, and conservation communities filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s attack on the National Environmental Policy Act, NEPA.
- [Wildife Suffers Humpty Dumpty Effect as Humans Multiply](https://ens-newswire.com/wildife-suffers-humpty-dumpty-effect-as-humans-multiply/): Some of the world’s largest, most spectacular and unheralded mammals are silently slipping away - species like Tibetan wild yaks and Patagonia’s huemul, Bhutan’s takin and Vietnam’s saola. Even Africa’s three species of zebras and wildebeest have suffered massive reductions over the last several decades.
- [Coronavirus Concerns Shape World Oceans Day 2020](https://ens-newswire.com/coronavirus-concerns-shape-world-oceans-day-2020/): The World Oceans Day Theme for 2020 is "Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean," but the coronavirus pandemic is top-of-mind today as the world focuses on the health of the oceans. "Oceans and fishing have been dramatically impacted by the coronavirus pandemic," Andy Sharpless blogged today to mark World Oceans Day 2020.
- [Trump Kills Obama's Atlantic Ocean Monument Designation](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-kills-obamas-atlantic-ocean-monument-designation/): Today, President Donald Trump traveled to Bangor, Maine to issue a proclamation that opens up the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing, threatening the destruction of this sensitive, biologically important marine reserve.
- [40 Million Medical Pros Prescribe Green Recovery for G20](https://ens-newswire.com/40-million-medical-pros-prescribe-green-recovery-for-g20/): Forty million health professionals Tuesday sent a letter to the leaders of each of the G20 nations, calling for a healthy and green recovery from COVID-19. They advised that the G20 leaders invest in public health and involve their medical and scientific communities in developing stimulus packages to help their economies recover.
- [Polluting Michigan Power Plants to Close December 2022](https://ens-newswire.com/polluting-michigan-power-plants-to-close-december-2022/): DTE Energy has agreed to a date certain to close three polluting coal-fired power plans, and the company will invest $7.5 million dollars to support environmental and sustainable improvements in Wayne County, Michigan.
- [Cyclone Amphun Blasts India, Bangladesh, Killing 100+](https://ens-newswire.com/cyclone-amphun-blasts-india-bangladesh-killing-100/): At least 102 people have lost their lives as the intense cyclone Amphan slammed into India and Bangladesh on Wednesday and Thursday, smashing thousands of homes and flooding low-lying areas with torrential rain. As the storm made landfall on Wednesday evening, local time, roughly 4.2 million people were evacuated in coastal India and Bangladesh.
- [Dangerous 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted](https://ens-newswire.com/dangerous-atlantic-hurricane-season-predicted/): There is a 60 percent chance of an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, with three to six major hurricanes, forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, announced today ahead of the Atlantic hurricane season - June 1 through November 30.
- [Vulnerable Nations Receive Billions for Virus Response](https://ens-newswire.com/vulnerable-nations-receive-billions-for-virus-response/): The unprecedented coronavirus crisis the world is now going through could push 60 million people in developing countries into extreme poverty, the head of the World Bank Group warned today while announcing financial assistance to 100 of the poorest and most vulnerable countries.
- [Impact Investors Confront Coronavirus Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/impact-investors-confront-coronavirus-crisis/): A new coalition of impact investors has come together to bring their formidable entrepreneurial skills to bear on the novel coronavirus and the deadly disease it causes, COVID-19. The coalition aims to help communities around the world weather this crisis and emerge with a renewed commitment to building a more inclusive and resilient system over the long-term.
- [Opinion: Farmers Deserve Support to Cope With Stress](https://ens-newswire.com/opinion-farmers-deserve-support-to-cope-with-stress/): By Bob Worth, LAKE BENTON, Minnesota, May 13, 2020 (ENS) - Farm stress is certainly not a new concept. My father saw rural suicide rates spike in his farming days in the 1930s. When I was a young farmer just getting started in the ‘80s, I got super depressed. Interest rates were as high as 21 percent, while land and machinery values plummeted. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Lawsuit Tests Trump’s Grab of $7.2B for Border Wall](https://ens-newswire.com/lawsuit-tests-trumps-grab-of-7-2b-for-border-wall/): Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration for taking $7.2 billion from the Department of Defense for border wall construction from the Pacific Ocean to the Rio Grande Valley without congressional approval. To date, Trump has taken more than $13 billion from the Department of Defense for border walls.
- [Oxford University Will End Fossil Fuel Investments](https://ens-newswire.com/oxford-university-will-end-fossil-fuel-investments/): OXFORD, England, May 12, 2020 (ENS) - Oxford University has announced its new plan to divest formally from the fossil fuel industry. The oldest university in the English-speaking world, teaching for nearly 1,000 years, Oxford has been reducing its investments in fossil fuel companies and increasing its investments in more sustainable endeavors. Following many %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Greener Process Grows U.S. Supply of Rare Earth Metals](https://ens-newswire.com/greener-process-grows-u-s-supply-of-rare-earth-metals/): Mining for rare earth metals is about to become more environmentally and economically feasible though a process newly developed and patented at Purdue University.
- [Montana Court Vacates 278 BLM Oil and Gas Leases](https://ens-newswire.com/montana-court-vacates-278-blm-oil-and-gas-leases/): Montana landowners, farmers, and conservation groups have won a victory in their effort to protect local groundwater and the climate. A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Land Management, BLM, failed to consider risks to Montana’s environment and water supply before issuing 287 oil and gas leases in the December 2017 and March 2018 lease sales.
- [Dogs Trained to Sniff Out Coronavirus Could Start in July](https://ens-newswire.com/dogs-trained-to-sniff-out-coronavirus-could-start-july/): Scent detection dogs are being trained to discriminate between samples from COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative patients under a new research initiative at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, usually called Penn Vet. Preliminary screening of live humans by trained dogs could begin as early as July.
- [Global Vaccine Telethon Raises $8 Billion Without USA](https://ens-newswire.com/global-vaccine-telethon-raises-8-billion-without-usa/): To battle the deadly coronavirus, six countries, the European Commission and the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation Monday pledged billions in new funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
- [New York State Recruits Army of Virus Contact Tracers](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-state-recruits-army-of-virus-contact-tracers/): Amid the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic that has hit New York harder than any other state, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that New York's contact tracing pilot program, with leadership from former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, will begin in the coming weeks.
- [Pandemic Shock to Energy Industry Greatest in 70 Years](https://ens-newswire.com/pandemic-shock-to-energy-industry-greatest-in-70-years/): The global COVID-19 pandemic has massively disrupted the global economy, forcing large parts of the world into confinement and "creating the largest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades," the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in an unprecedented urgent report.
- [First Invasive 'Murder Hornets' Found in United States](https://ens-newswire.com/first-invasive-murder-hornets-found-in-united-states/): "Murder hornets," known officially as Asian giant hornets, Vespa mandarinia, have made their first appearance in the United States. These giant stinging insects, the world's largest species of hornet, are an invasive species and a known predator of honeybees.
- [Virus Warriors Get Lab Supplies, 3D Printers, Food, Shoes](https://ens-newswire.com/virus-warriors-get-lab-supplies-3d-printers-food-shoes/): With the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide reaching 3,090,445 today and deaths amounting to 217,769 and rising, the world is still caught in the grip of this deadly virus that emerged in Wuhan, China late last December. Today, many organizations - national, international, public, corporate, and nonprofit - are sharing their resources with people who are risking their own lives to care for others.
- [Palm Oil Industry Funds Radar to Detect Deforestation](https://ens-newswire.com/palm-oil-industry-funds-radar-to-detect-deforestation/): Ten of the world’s largest palm oil producers and buyers are collaborating to support and fund the development of a new, publicly-available, radar-based forest monitoring system known as Radar Alerts for Detecting Deforestation, RADD.
- [Global Collaboration Accelerates New COVID-19 Weapons](https://ens-newswire.com/global-collaboration-accelerates-new-covid-19-weapons/): The World Health Organization, heads of government, health officials, philanthropists, and the private sector partnered Friday in a collaboration to speed the development and production of vaccines and treatments to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic and to make certain that they are distributed quickly and equally around the world.
- [Rare UV-C Light Rays Remove Coronavirus From Surfaces](https://ens-newswire.com/rare-uv-c-light-rays-remove-coronavirus-from-surfaces/): As the world races to find vaccines, therapies and cures for the deadly respiratory disease COVID-19, the deep ultraviolet color of rare UV-C light rays may soon be seen cleaning surfaces, as well as air and water, contaminated with the novel coronavirus that causes the disease.
- [UK Prime Minister Released from Hospital](https://ens-newswire.com/uk-prime-minister-released-from-intensive-care/): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been released from St. Thomas hospital in London where he has spent the past week being treated for a case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that emerged late last year in Wuhan, China.
- [Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fires Spreading Radioactivity](https://ens-newswire.com/chernobyl-exclusion-zone-fires-spreading-radioactivity/): A huge forest fire in Ukraine that blazed for more than 10 days came within one kilometer (.6 miles) of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant and poses a continuing radiation risk, Greenpeace Russia warned on Monday, citing satellite images.
- [Earth Day 2020 Features Global Online Climate Event](https://ens-newswire.com/earth-day-2020-features-global-online-climate-event/): The biggest climate conference of the year will be the Earth Day Week No Fly Conference - just one of the 50th anniversary events marking Earth Day 2020.
- [Trump Kills Obama's Clean Car Standards](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-kills-obamas-clean-car-standards/): The Republican administration of President Donald Trump has not let the deadly coronavirus crisis stop it from getting rid of Obama-era federal fuel efficiency standards and replacing them with a less ambitious plan. The Trump plan is estimated to increase carbon emissions by 2.2 billion metric tonnes and cost Americans a total of US$300 billion.
- [Race for a Virus Shield: 50 Vaccines in Development](https://ens-newswire.com/race-for-a-virus-shield-50-vaccines-in-development/): Vaccine researchers around the world are working full time to develop a vaccine to defeat COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China in December. With dozens of vaccine projects in the works, a panel of experts met Monday to assess progress and outline continuing challenges.
- [Tips for Virus-Free Payment Transactions](https://ens-newswire.com/tips-for-virus-free-payment-transactions/): The highly contagious, deadly novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, is spreading around the world in a global pandemic, raising everyone’s awareness of the need to avoid contact with frequently touched public surfaces. Still, people must buy things ...
- [Trump, Thunberg Clash at World Economic Forum](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-thunberg-clash-at-world-economic-forum/): After a year of floods and droughts, when wildfires devastated Australia and the Amazon, and Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the latest World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report finds for the first time that environmental issues dominate leaders’ concerns for the future.
- [Virus Lockdown: Violence Behind Closed Doors](https://ens-newswire.com/virus-lockdown-violence-behind-closed-doors/): "Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for COVID-19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes. Today I appeal for peace in homes around the world," UN chief António Guterres said Sunday. "I urge all governments to put women’s safety first as they respond to the pandemic."
- [Low-level Radioactive Waste Could Go to Local Landfills](https://ens-newswire.com/low-level-radioactive-waste-could-go-to-local-landfills/): As the nation is focused on coping with the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, is quietly moving to permanently deregulate massive amounts of low-level radioactive waste, but not spent nuclear fuel.
- [Trump Erodes Eco-Protections as Americans Die of Virus](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-erodes-eco-protections-as-americans-die-of-virus/): As America fought the new coronavirus over the past 30 days, President Donald Trump’s Interior Department rushed through dozens of attacks on the environment, finds a new analysis by the nonprofit Center for Western Priorities.
- [UK Prime Minister in Intensive Care With Coronavirus](https://ens-newswire.com/uk-prime-minister-in-intensive-care-with-coronavirus/): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to an intensive care unit in a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms "worsened," the Prime Minister's office said in an official statement today. A spokesman said he was moved on the advice of his medical team and is receiving "excellent care."
- [Capitol Hill Shivers as Lawmakers Test Virus Positive](https://ens-newswire.com/capitol-hill-shivers-as-lawmakers-test-virus-positive/): Senate Democrats voted down a $1.8 trillion coronavirus aid package Sunday evening with five Republican senators absent. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Republican and a medical doctor, announced Sunday morning he had tested positive for the coronavirus and would self-quarantine.
- [Private Sector Trusted to Share Virus Messaging Load](https://ens-newswire.com/private-sector-trusted-to-share-virus-messaging-load/): "These last few weeks we have all lived the consequences of low trust in government and media. We have observed that large groups of people have ignored critical health guidance, in part because they doubted the veracity of available information or because they relied on disinformation," says Richard Edelman, CEO of the American public relations and marketing consultancy Edelman.
- [Ice Cover Shrinks at North and South Poles](https://ens-newswire.com/ice-cover-shrinks-at-north-and-south-poles/): During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice, enough to raise global sea levels by 2.2 millimeters in two months. On the opposite pole, Antarctica continued to lose mass in the Amundsen Sea Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula but saw some relief in the form of increased snowfall in the eastern part of the continent.
- [COVID-19 a 'Pandemic,' Canada's Prime Minister Isolated](https://ens-newswire.com/covid-19-a-pandemic-canadas-prime-minister-isolated/): The novel coronavirus called COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on Wednesday. There are now more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries, and 4,291 people have lost their lives.
- [WHO: Threat of Global Coronavirus Pandemic 'Very Real'](https://ens-newswire.com/who-threat-of-global-coronavirus-pandemic-very-real/): "Over the weekend we crossed 100,000 reported cases of COVID-19 in 100 countries," World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a global media briefing about the novel coronavirus on Monday. "Now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real."
- [EU to Enshrine in Law Climate Neutrality by 2050](https://ens-newswire.com/eu-to-enshrine-in-law-climate-neutrality-by-2050/): The European Commission has proposed to pass a law formalizing the EU's political commitment to be climate neutral by 2050 to protect the planet and its inhabitants.
- [Unprecedented Locust Swarms Invade East Africa](https://ens-newswire.com/unprecedented-locust-swarms-invade-east-africa/): ROME, Italy, March 4, 2020 (ENS) - The East Africa region now faces a hunger threat from desert locusts, along with climate shocks, conflict and acute food insecurity, top United Nations relief officials are warning, urgently advising that action now will avert a major food crisis later.
- [Amazon's 2019 Burned Area Trends Parallel Past 18 Years](https://ens-newswire.com/amazons-2019-burned-area-trends-parallel-past-18-years/): Thousands of fires broke out in the Amazon last year, sparking international media alarm. But a detailed analysis, using data from the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative, shows that while there was a small increase of fires in 2019 compared to 2018, the number of fires in Brazil was similar to the average annual number of fires detected over the past 18 years.
- [EU Invests €100 million in a Climate-neutral Europe](https://ens-newswire.com/eu-invests-e100-million-in-a-climate-neutral-europe/): The European Commission will invest €101 million for new projects under the LIFE programme for the Environment and Climate Action. The funding will support 10 large-scale environment and climate projects in nine EU Member States, helping Europe's transition to a sustainable economy and climate neutrality.
- [Philips Aims to Become Carbon Neutral This Year](https://ens-newswire.com/philips-aims-to-become-carbon-neutral-this-year/): With its U.S. and Dutch facilities now 100 percent-powered by renewable electricity, the multinational health technology company Philips is closer to its goal of becoming carbon-neutral in its own operations this year.
- [Microplastics Problem Extends Beyond the Sea](https://ens-newswire.com/microplastics-problem-extends-beyond-the-sea/): "Microplastics are a global phenomenon that can't be adequately understood or addressed in the context of the marine environment alone," says Professor Rob Hale of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. "Plastics are produced, used, and discarded on land, and disperse through soils, rivers, and the atmosphere.
- [China Bans the Eating of Wild Animals](https://ens-newswire.com/china-bans-the-eating-of-wild-animals/): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday pledged "unremitting efforts" in the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic and coordination in advancing economic and social development. The epidemic situation remains "grim and complex," said Xi...
- [Canada Gas Pipeline Protests Yield Rail Shutdown, Arrests](https://ens-newswire.com/canada-gas-pipeline-protests-yield-rail-shutdown-arrests/): Forty indigenous land and water protectors and non-indigenous activists were arrested in British Columbia and across Canada on Monday, while they were protesting a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline that would run through the unceded tribal lands of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in British Columbia.
- [Out-of-State Emissions Cause Half Air Pollution Deaths](https://ens-newswire.com/out-of-state-emissions-cause-half-air-pollution-deaths/): More than half of all early deaths in the United States due to poor air quality are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, report researchers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.
- [Virus Deaths Top 1,000 As China Goes Back to Work](https://ens-newswire.com/virus-deaths-top-1000-as-china-goes-back-to-work/): Chinese authorities are "carefully balancing" efforts to control the novel coronavirus epidemic and minimize its impact on the economy as millions of people headed back to work today after an extended holiday.
- [Runways Underwater: Rising Seas Threaten 80 Airports](https://ens-newswire.com/runways-underwater-rising-seas-threaten-80-airports/): At least 80 airports around the world could be underwater if climate change causes sea levels to rise just one meter (39 inches), which scientists at the United Nations' expert climate panel predict is likely to occur by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced.
- [Green v Black: Greenpeace Protests BlackRock's Coal Funding](https://ens-newswire.com/green-v-black-greenpeace-protests-blackrocks-coal-funding/): Greenpeace Germany supporters protested at global investment firm BlackRock’s German headquarters Monday, to tell the firm to stop investing in coal and financing climate change as the majority shareholder of Siemens, a telecommunications provider for the Adani coal mine in Australia.
- [Trump's Far-Reaching Rollbacks of Environmental Rules](https://ens-newswire.com/trumps-far-reaching-rollbacks-of-environmental-rules/): New York State Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general and the City of Philadelphia, is suing the Trump Administration's Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, for gutting safeguards for those exposed to dangerous chemical accidents.
- [Coronavirus Declared Worldwide Public Health Emergency](https://ens-newswire.com/coronavirus-declared-worldwide-public-health-emergency/): The Director-General of the World Health Organization, WHO, has declared that the outbreak of the novel Wuhan coronavirus 2019-nCoV constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, PHEIC.
- [WHO, China Leaders Plan Battle Against Wuhan Virus](https://ens-newswire.com/who-china-leaders-plan-battle-against-wuhan-virus/): Director-General of the World Health Organization, WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, met Tuesday with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing. They shared the latest information on the novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV) outbreak and reiterated their commitment to bring the deadly virus under control.
- [Walnuts Slow Cognitive Decline in At-risk Elderly](https://ens-newswire.com/walnuts-slow-cognitive-decline-in-at-risk-elderly/): Eating walnuts may help slow cognitive decline in at-risk groups of elderly people, according to a study conducted by researchers in California and Spain. Walnuts contain omega-3 fatty acids and polyphenols, which have been found to counteract oxidative stress and inflammation, both of which are drivers of cognitive decline.
- [Wuhan CoronaVirus Spreading, More Than 80 Have Died](https://ens-newswire.com/wuhan-coronavirus-spreading-more-than-80-have-died/): A new strain of coronavirus is worrying doctors at the World Health Organization, WHO, and medical officials around the world. Doctors call it 2019-nCoV, but it's more commonly known as the Wuhan coronavirus, named after the place where the virus emerged in December, Wuhan City, the capital of central China's Hubei Province.
- [U.S. Youth Lose Court Climate Ruling, Vow to Fight On](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-youth-lose-court-climate-ruling-vow-to-fight-on/): A divided three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has "reluctantly" concluded that the youth plaintiffs’ case in Juliana v. United States must be made to Congress, the President, or to the electorate at large. The decision finds federal courts cannot provide the youth with a remedy for their climate change injuries.
- [The Twin Threats Facing Big Oil](https://ens-newswire.com/the-twin-threats-facing-big-oil/): The global oil and gas industry is facing the twin threats of the loss of profitability and the loss of social acceptability as the climate crisis continues to worsen. The industry is not adequately responding to either of those threats, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.
- [World Economic Forum 2020 Aims for Sustainability](https://ens-newswire.com/world-economic-forum-2020-aims-for-sustainability/): This year's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum will call on corporations to raise their ambitions for climate action under the theme Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World. The meeting’s 50th edition, opening January 21 for four days, will bring together over 3,000 participants from throughout the world.
- [Thousands Flee Erupting Volcano Near Manila](https://ens-newswire.com/thousands-flee-erupting-volcano-near-manila-philippines/): Mount Taal, a volcano 40 miles south of Manila on the island of Luzon, blew rocks, ash, and steam more than six miles into the air Sunday. People living in all areas within 14 kilometers (8.5 miles) of the volcano were ordered to evacuate immediately.
- [Earthquakes Plunge Puerto Rico Into Darkness](https://ens-newswire.com/earthquakes-plunge-puerto-rico-into-darkness/): A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico early Tuesday, killing at least one person and leaving several others injured in the southern part of the Caribbean island, according to official reports. Over the past several weeks, hundreds of small earthquakes have occurred in this same region. 
- [Climate, Logging Menace Madagascar's Unique Ecology](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-logging-menace-madagascars-unique-ecology/): Left unchecked, the combined effects of deforestation and human-induced climate change could eliminate Madagascar's entire eastern rainforest habitat by 2070, impacting thousands of plants, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians endemic to the island nation, finds new research from The Graduate Center at the City University of New York
- [Children, Hope of the World, At Risk](https://ens-newswire.com/children-hope-of-the-world-at-risk/): Young people are his greatest source of hope, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the world today in his New Year's message. "From climate action to gender equality to social justice and human rights, your generation is on the frontlines and in the headlines. I am inspired by your passion and determination."
- [Deadly Australian Bushfires Linked to Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/deadly-australian-bushfires-linked-to-climate-change/): As hundreds of climate change-fueled bushfires blaze across Australia, Sydney and New South Wales north coast residents continue to suffer from toxic air quality as a result of fires burning through the state.
- [Weak COP25 Outcome Disappoints Despite Achievements](https://ens-newswire.com/weak-cop25-outcome-disappoints-despite-achievements/): Climate negotiations lasting 16 days failed to find common ground on international carbon trading rules, one of the important issues at the UN's COP25 climate summit in Madrid, which wrapped Sunday with a weak accord despite urging from the United Nations and civil society groups to address the climate emergency with "ambition."
- [New Animal Rules Rattle South African Tourism Industry](https://ens-newswire.com/new-animal-rules-rattle-south-african-tourism-industry/): Interactions with all infant wildlife, walking with predators or elephants, interacting with predators and the riding of wild animals are no longer acceptable practices, according to the South African Tourism Services Association, SATSA.
- [Climate Activists Kicked Out of COP25 Are Readmitted](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-activists-kicked-out-of-cop25-are-readmitted/): Young activists who occupied the main stage at the United Nations' COP 25 climate conference in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday during the "high-level" part of the meeting, demanding that world leaders do more to address the climate crisis, were ejected from the building and stripped of their badges.
- [New York State Bans Aerial Spraying of Chlorpyrifos](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-state-bans-aerial-spraying-of-chlorpyrifos/): New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday directed the state Department of Environmental Conservation, DEC, to take immediate action to ban aerial use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. New restrictions on the toxic substance will protect New Yorkers, especially children, from adverse health impacts.
- [Courageous Young People Battle Climate Crisis](https://ens-newswire.com/courageous-young-people-battle-climate-crisis/): As environmental disasters unfolded across the world in 2019, it is fearless children and young adults who have dared to speak out in defense of their right to a safe and healthy future with a liveable climate, clean air, and clean water.
- [Protecting Whales Can Help Avert Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/protecting-whales-can-help-avert-climate-change/): A fresh perspective on the world's whale population could be "earth-changing," writes the World Economic Forum's Katharine Rooney in a new article on how whales can help reverse climate change.
- [COP25: Rescue of Earth's Climate Hangs in the Balance](https://ens-newswire.com/cop25-rescue-of-earths-climate-hangs-in-the-balance/): The 25th annual UN Climate Change Conference, COP25, opened Monday in Madrid with many delegates sharing a sense of urgency to make progress on climate action before the Paris Climate Agreement comes into force next year.
- [Greenhouse Gases Hit Yet Another Record High](https://ens-newswire.com/greenhouse-gases-hit-yet-another-record-high/): Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization, WMO. This continuing long-term trend means that future generations will be confronted with increasingly severe impacts of climate change.
- [European Investment Bank to Stop Financing Fossil Fuels](https://ens-newswire.com/european-investment-bank-to-stop-financing-fossil-fuels/): The European Investment Bank will end financing for fossil fuel energy projects from the end of 2021, bank officials have announced. Future financing from the world's largest international public lending institution will accelerate clean energy innovation, energy efficiency, and renewables.
- [Rare Earth Elements Focus of U.S.-Australia Agreement](https://ens-newswire.com/rare-earth-elements-focus-of-u-s-australia-agreement/): Officials from the United States and Australia today signed a memorandum of understanding pledging cooperation to secure a steady supply of the energy mineral resources essential for meeting the world's booming demand for electric vehicles, smartphones, jet aircraft, and solar panels.
- [Australia's Victoria State Protects Old-Growth Forests](https://ens-newswire.com/australias-victoria-state-protects-old-growth-forests/): Logging in the remaining old-growth forests of the Australian state of Victoria will cease immediately, protecting around 90,000 hectares, with logging in all native forests across the state to stop by 2030, according to a new plan announced by the Labor Government of Premier Daniel Andrews.
- [Multi-Player Games Engage Passengers in Driverless Cars](https://ens-newswire.com/multi-player-games-engage-passengers-in-driverless-cars/): Gaming with family members, or even strangers, in nearby self-driving cars out on the road could soon be a reality for passengers in autonomous vehicles.
- [Eastern U.S Shivers in Record Cold Weather](https://ens-newswire.com/eastern-u-s-shivers-in-record-cold-weather/): The arctic outbreak that has been gripping much of the central and eastern United States will culminate this morning with more than 100 locations expected to tie or set new low-temperature records. 
- [Science in Action: Arctic Residents Embrace Renewables](https://ens-newswire.com/science-in-action-arctic-residents-embrace-renewables/): Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has accepted an invitation to partner with Qaanaaq, an Arctic hunting and fishing community in northwestern Greenland, as the residents transition to renewable energy and an affordable, sustainable future.
- [Fixation on Nitrogen](https://ens-newswire.com/fixation-on-nitrogen/): Scientists at three North American universities have discovered one of nature's "backup methods" for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients. Research published today in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," shows that the process may be more resilient than previously known.
- [Violence in Chile Pushes UN Climate Conference to Spain](https://ens-newswire.com/violence-in-chile-pushes-un-climate-conference-to-spain/): Violent anti-government protests that have left at least 18 people dead, have cost Chile its role as host country for this year's 10-day UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) due to start December 2.
- [MIT Engineers Find New Way to Remove CO2 From Air](https://ens-newswire.com/mit-engineers-find-new-way-to-remove-co2-from-air/): A new way of removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stream of air could provide a valuable tool in the battle against climate change say the engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, who developed the new system.
- [Largest U.S. National Forest Faces Roadless Rule Repeal](https://ens-newswire.com/largest-u-s-national-forest-faces-roadless-rule-repeal/): The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comments on its plan to exempt Alaska's Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule. The 60-day public comment period opens today.
- [High Winds Fan California Wildfires, 180,000 Evacuated](https://ens-newswire.com/high-winds-fan-california-wildfires-180000-evacuated/): California Governor Gavin Newsom today declared a statewide emergency due to the effects of unprecedented high-wind events that have resulted in wildfires and evacuations across the state.
- [South Africa Reclassifies 33 Wild Species as Farm Animals](https://ens-newswire.com/south-africa-reclassifies-33-wild-species-as-farm-animals/): By the stroke of a legislative pen, a list of iconic and, in some cases, endangered wild animals can now be manipulated as farming stock. Lions, cheetahs, rhinos, and zebras are among 33 wild species which became farm animals as of May...
- [Dam Development Is 'Silencing' the Mekong River](https://ens-newswire.com/dam-development-is-silencing-the-mekong-river/): In five days, the Xayaburi Hydropower Project on the Mekong River in northern Laos will formally begin operations. As the first dam on the lower Mekong mainstream, this marks a turning point for the Mekong River.
- [Total Sued Under France's New Duty of Vigilance Law](https://ens-newswire.com/total-sued-under-frances-new-duty-of-vigilance-law/): Today six environmental groups in France and Uganda, led by Friends of the Earth, are taking the French multinational energy company Total to court for its failure to elaborate and implement its human rights and environmental vigilance plan in Uganda. This is the first legal action under the 2017 French Duty of Vigilance law, which aims to address corporate negligence.
- [Turning the Plastic Tide](https://ens-newswire.com/turning-the-plastic-tide/): Around the world, almost one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute. As the environmental impact of that plastic tide swells into a political issue, packaged goods sellers and retailers, pressured to stem the flow of single-use bottles and containers, are coming up with new ideas and technologies.
- [Highly Radioactive Particles From Fukushima Mapped](https://ens-newswire.com/highly-radioactive-particles-from-fukushima-mapped/): The distribution, number, source, and movement of radioactive microparticles in the environment following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown has been poorly understood, but new research from an international team of scientists has produced a way for researchers to quantify the amount of cesium-rich microparticles in soil and sediment samples.
- [Jane Fonda, Sam Waterston Arrested at Green New Deal Demo](https://ens-newswire.com/jane-fonda-sam-waterston-arrested-at-green-new-deal-demo/): Actors Jane Fonda and Sam Waterston were both arrested Friday in Washington, DC, during a demonstration protesting government inaction on climate change and a Green New Deal outside the U.S. Capitol building.
- [Wildfires Devour Parts of Lebanon, Syria](https://ens-newswire.com/wildfires-devour-parts-of-lebanon-syria/): Wildfires blazed across parts of Lebanon Tuesday after forcing some residents to abandon their homes in the middle of the night. Others were stuck in their houses as the flames tore through villages south of Beirut, officials said.
- [Indianapolis Hosts 1st Global Center for Species Survival](https://ens-newswire.com/indianapolis-hosts-1st-global-center-for-species-survival/): The world's first Global Center for Species Survival, GCSS, will open next year at the Indianapolis Zoo in Indianapolis, Indiana in the midwestern United States under a new agreement between the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, and the zoo.
- [Met Police Ban Climate Protesters From London](https://ens-newswire.com/met-police-ban-climate-protesters-from-london/): London's Metropolitan Police Service Monday banned demonstrations by the climate change protest movement Extinction Rebellion in central London, under Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986. This law allows "conditions" to be placed on public assemblies.
- [Big City Mayors Support Global Green New Deal](https://ens-newswire.com/big-city-mayors-support-global-green-new-deal/): The mayors of many of the world's largest cities have announced their support for a Global Green New Deal and declared their recognition that the Earth is gripped by a global climate emergency. These mayors were participants in the 2019 C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen October 9 - 12.
- [Governments Protect Giraffes at CITES Meeting](https://ens-newswire.com/governments-protect-giraffes-at-cites-meeting/): Giraffes will now be protected against trade in their body parts for the first time. Delegates from 183 countries to the tri-annual Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species decided to add giraffes to an endangered species list, voting to regulate the trade in products made from giraffes...
- [Health Care’s Big Global Climate Footprint](https://ens-newswire.com/health-cares-big-global-climate-footprint/): If the global health care sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, according to a new report by Health Care Without Harm in collaboration with Arup, which provides engineering, design, and project management for the built environment.
- [U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Deal Could Unravel](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-mexico-canada-free-trade-deal-could-unravel/): Before Congress took its six-week August recess, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to every U.S. senator and representative urging swift approval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, USMCA, this year. The letter was signed by 600 national, state and local trade groups, but labor and environmental interests have major problems with the deal.
- [Leaders Pledge Decade of Action for Sustainable Goals](https://ens-newswire.com/leaders-pledge-decade-of-action-for-sustainable-goals/): The first UN summit on the progress of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development closed on a hopeful note Thursday, with Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed declaring success in the "spoken word, the voice of youth, the commitment of civil society, the power of an active citizenry and the leadership of our governments."
- [UN Climate Action Summit Yields Rich Funding Promises](https://ens-newswire.com/un-climate-action-summit-yields-rich-funding-promises/): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned world leaders not to come to his landmark Climate Action Summit with beautiful speeches alone, but to present plans for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon neutrality by 2050. So what was promised at Monday’s event at UN Headquarters in New York?
- [Pledges of Climate Healing Resound at Climate Week NYC](https://ens-newswire.com/pledges-of-climate-healing-resound-at-climate-week-nyc/): “California is significantly outperforming the United States of America in GDP growth over a five-year period - not despite our environmental strategies, but because of our environmental strategies," California Governor Gavin Newsom told the opening day audience at Climate Week NYC.
- [Leaders at UN Climate Action Summit Hear Brutal Truths](https://ens-newswire.com/leaders-at-un-climate-action-summit-hear-brutal-truths/): Speaking at the opening of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit on Monday, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, was blunt in her criticism of world leaders, telling them that they are still "not mature enough to tell it like it is."
- [Winning Global Youth Contest Videos Star Eco-Solutions](https://ens-newswire.com/winning-global-youth-contest-videos-star-eco-solutions/): Young people from Portugal, Brazil, and the United States have won the 2019 Global Youth Video Competition by telling inspiring stories of local climate action that can be scaled up and replicated around the world. The winners were announced Saturday at the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Climate Summit in New York.
- [Millions March in Youth-Led Global Climate Strike](https://ens-newswire.com/millions-march-in-youth-led-global-climate-strike/): At least four million people went on climate strike in 140 countries across the world, shattering previous records for turnout numbers, in an all-out effort to demonstrate their alarm at increasing global warming and to convince elected officials and world leaders that swift climate action is needed now.
- [More Women, Children Surviving Perils of Childbirth](https://ens-newswire.com/more-women-children-surviving-perils-of-childbirth/): Around the world, more women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released today by United Nations groups led by the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization, WHO.
- [Dems Resist Trump's 'Reckless' LNG Rail Tank Car Plan](https://ens-newswire.com/dems-resist-trumps-reckless-lng-rail-tank-car-plan/): Two Democratic Congressmen have introduced legislation requiring a comprehensive review of the transport of liquified natural gas, LNG, by rail tank car. On April 10, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing his Transportation Secretary to authorize the movement of LNG in rail tank cars within 13 months.
- [Utilities Ask Court to Reinstate Obama's Clean Power Plan](https://ens-newswire.com/utilities-ask-court-to-reinstate-obamas-clean-power-plan/): A coalition of public and private electric utilities has filed a petition in the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new Affordable Clean Energy Rule and the repeal of the Clean Power Plan.
- [UN Chief: Climate Change Amplified Hurricane Dorian](https://ens-newswire.com/un-chief-climate-change-amplified-hurricane-dorian/): Category 5 Hurricane Dorian was "Category Hell," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, "but it was not powered by a devil. We have always had many hurricanes, but now they are more intense and more frequent, and they are powered by climate change."
- [Youth Maps Hopeful Path to Climate Action](https://ens-newswire.com/youth-maps-hopeful-path-to-climate-action/): Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, author of the new book “No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference,” arrived in New York on August 28 after two weeks crossing the Atlantic on a carbon-neutral racing sailboat to take part in the UN Secretary General's annual Climate Action Summit September 23.
- [California Becomes First State to Outlaw Fur Trapping](https://ens-newswire.com/california-becomes-first-state-to-outlaw-fur-trapping/): In a victory for wildlife, California has become the first U.S. state to outlaw fur trapping. The Wildlife Protection Act of 2019 was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom Wednesday. It prohibits trapping native animals such as bobcats, gray foxes, coyotes, beavers, badgers and mink, on both private and public lands.
- [Dorian Strongest Storm Ever to Threaten U.S. East Coast](https://ens-newswire.com/dorian-strongest-storm-ever-to-threaten-u-s-east-coast/): TALLAHASSEE, Florida, September 1, 2019 (ENS) - Florida, South Carolina and Georgia are preparing for powerful Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 hurricane that is bearing down on the Atlantic coast. Dorian is a slow-moving storm with tropical storm-force winds extending up to 140 miles from its center, heavy rain and the potential for storm surge and flooding.
- [World Water Week: Water Scarcity Becoming Urgent](https://ens-newswire.com/world-water-week-water-scarcity-becoming-urgent/): When World Water Week opened in Stockholm Monday, speakers at the annual event addressing global water issues called for an immediate and drastic shift in how freshwater is shared and managed.
- [CITES Bans Sale of Wild Baby African Elephants to Zoos](https://ens-newswire.com/cites-bans-sale-of-wild-baby-african-elephants-to-zoos/): Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a cliff-hanger of a win for elephants at the triennial Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, CITES, in Geneva where delegates Tuesday voted to limit the controversial trade of wild-caught baby African elephants from Zimbabwe and Botswana to zoos.
- [Trump Disrupts France's Effort to Green the G7 Summit](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-disrupts-frances-effort-to-green-the-g7-summit/): The seven industrialized countries that make up the Group of Seven (G7) - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States - had an ambitious environmental agenda mapped out before their meeting August 24-26 in Biarritz, a beach resort town on France’s Basque coast.
- [Newark Drinking Water Emergency: Lead Filters Failing](https://ens-newswire.com/newark-drinking-water-emergency-lead-filters-failing/): NEWARK, New Jersey, August 20, 2019 (ENS) - Filters intended to remove lead in the city of Newark’s tap water are not working as expected in at least two homes, Mayor Ras Baraka has announced in the latest turn of events in a Newark water crisis that has lasted nearly three years.
- [New World Heritage Status for China's Birds, Iran's Ancient Forest](https://ens-newswire.com/new-world-heritage-chinas-birds-irans-ancient-forest/): The World Heritage Committee inscribed 29 new natural and cultural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List during this year's session, which took place in Baku from June 30 to July 10 under the chairmanship of Azerbaijan's Minister of Culture Abulfas Garayev.
- [Greece Ablaze: First rescEU Planes Deployed](https://ens-newswire.com/greece-ablaze-first-resceu-planes-deployed/): Hundreds of residents have been evacuated from towns and villages on Evia, Greece’s second-largest island, where fires have spread through a nature reserve in a dense pine forest.
- [Oil Spill Fouls Pristine Patagonian Waters](https://ens-newswire.com/oil-spill-fouls-pristine-patagonian-waters/): An oil spill under investigation by the Chilean Navy on the far southern coast of Patagonia has been contained, mining company CAP SA said on Sunday. The diesel oil spill of 40,000-liters occurred Saturday at CAP's onshore terminal on Guarello Island.
- [CITES to Update Wildlife Trade Rules for 550 Species](https://ens-newswire.com/cites-to-update-wildlife-trade-rules-for-550-species/): The 183 countries that are Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, CITES, will adopt decisions and resolutions to expand and strengthen the global wildlife trade regime at CITES’ upcoming triennial World Wildlife Conference.
- [Florida Couple Indicted for Trading Indonesian Wildlife](https://ens-newswire.com/florida-couple-indicted-for-trading-indonesian-wildlife/): TAMPA, Florida, July 26, 2019 (ENS) - An indictment from a federal grand jury sitting in Tampa was unsealed Wednesday, charging Novita Indah, 48, and Larry Malugin, 51, of Port Richey, Florida, with conspiracy and trafficking in protected wildlife. The indictment charges the couple with smuggling wildlife from Indonesia to the United States and %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Trump Rolls Back Endangered Species Act Protections](https://ens-newswire.com/trump-rolls-back-endangered-species-act-protections/): In an attack on imperiled wildlife, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Commerce's National Marine Fisheries Service today released the final changes to three proposed rules of the Endangered Species Act, ESA.
- [New Brazilian Monkey Already At Risk of Habitat Loss](https://ens-newswire.com/new-brazilian-monkey-already-at-risk-of-habitat-loss/): A new species of marmoset has been discovered in the southwest of Brazil's Pará state in an area of the Amazon that has suffered extensive illegal logging and agricultural conversion. The destruction is happening, the researchers say, "even within federal conservation units and protected indigenous lands."
- [Comparing America's Most Energy-Efficient Cities](https://ens-newswire.com/comparing-americas-most-energy-efficient-cities/): WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2019 (ENS) - Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC top the latest energy-efficiency scorecard from the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), which ranks the progress of 75 large U.S. cities.
- [Krypton Reveals Ancient Aquifer Under the Negev Desert](https://ens-newswire.com/krypton-reveals-ancient-aquifer-under-the-negev-desert/): The Negev Desert, which covers half of Israel’s landmass, is so dry that parts of it get less than three inches of water a year; so dry it is called hyperarid. Yet today, there is still water in an aquifer beneath the Negev Desert.
- [Climate Change Undercutting World Food Security](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-change-undercutting-world-food-security/): Climate change is pressuring all four pillars of the world's food security: availability (yield and production), access (prices and ability to obtain food), utilization (nutrition and cooking), and stability (disruptions to availability), finds a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- [Automakers Reject Trump Rollback of Clean Car Standards](https://ens-newswire.com/automakers-reject-trump-rollback-of-clean-car-standards/): As the Trump administration prepares to roll back emission standards for light-duty cars and trucks, a consortium of four automakers and the state of California have agreed on a voluntary framework to reduce emissions as an alternative path forward for clean vehicle standards nationwide.
- [Wildlife Changing Too Slowly to Survive Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/wildlife-changing-too-slowly-to-survive-climate-change/): Climate change can threaten species and extinctions can impact ecosystem health, so it is of vital importance to assess how animals respond to changing environmental conditions, and whether these shifts enable the persistence of populations in the long run.
- [European Union Acts to Safeguard World’s Forests](https://ens-newswire.com/european-union-acts-to-safeguard-worlds-forests/): The European Commission today set out a new framework of actions to protect and restore the world's forests, which host 80 percent of biodiversity on land, support the livelihoods of around 25 percent of the world's population, and are vital to efforts to fight climate change.
- [World's Biggest Algae Bloom 'Here to Stay'](https://ens-newswire.com/worlds-biggest-algae-bloom-here-to-stay/): The largest bloom of macroalgae in the world, an unprecedented belt of brown algae, now stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico - and it's likely here to stay warn scientists at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg's College of Marine Science.
- [Global Operation Thunderball Grabs Wildlife Criminals](https://ens-newswire.com/global-operation-thunderball-grabs-wildlife-criminals/): A global joint customs and police operation all during the month of June seized large quantities of internationally protected plants and animals, from live big cats and primates to timber, and made hundreds of arrests of suspected smugglers worldwide.
- [Counterfeit Food and Drink Seized in Global Operation](https://ens-newswire.com/counterfeit-food-and-drink-seized-in-global-operation/): More than US$117 million worth of potentially dangerous fake food and drink was seized and 672 individuals arrested worldwide in Interpol's latest Operation Opson. Tampered expiry dates on cheese and chicken, controlled medicines added to drink products and meat stored in unsanitary conditions were some of the offenses discovered...
- [Democratic Debaters Wrestle With Climate Change](https://ens-newswire.com/democratic-debaters-wrestle-with-climate-change/): Climate change was on the formal presidential debate agenda for the first time as 20 Democratic presidential candidates with their hopes pinned to the 2020 election debated for the first time in back-to-back sessions Wednesday and Thursday evenings ...
- [Himalayan Glaciers' Melt Doubled Since Year 2000](https://ens-newswire.com/himalayan-glaciers-melt-doubled-since-year-2000/): NEW YORK, New York, June 21, 2019 (ENS) - The melting of Himalayan glaciers caused by rising temperatures has accelerated sharply since the start of the 21st century, comprehensive new research shows. Climate change is eroding the Himalayas’ glaciers, threatening water supplies for hundreds of millions of people downstream across much of Asia, the study demonstrates. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Golden Asteroid Could Make Everyone on Earth Wealthy](https://ens-newswire.com/golden-asteroid-could-make-everyone-on-earth-wealthy/): Whether it was the Big Bang, Midas or God himself, we don't really need to unlock the mystery of the origins of gold when we've already identified an asteroid worth US$700 quintillion in precious heavy metals.
- [Carbon-neutral Fuel Created from Sunlight and Air](https://ens-newswire.com/carbon-neutral-fuel-created-from-sunlight-and-air/): An innovative technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels from only sunlight and air has been developed by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, known as ETH Zurich. For the first time anywhere in the world, scientists have demonstrated the entire thermochemical process chain...
- [Trudeau Greenlights Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion](https://ens-newswire.com/trudeau-greenlights-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion/): Canada's federal cabinet has approved the twinning of the existing Trans Mountain pipeline that will carry diluted bitumen from the oil sands near Edmonton, Alberta to Burnaby, British Columbia, over the objections of Indigenous First Nations peoples and environmentalists.
- [Global Population to Hit 11 Billion by 2100, Then Slow](https://ens-newswire.com/global-population-to-hit-11-billion-by-2100-then-slow/): NEW YORK, New York, June 17, 2019 (ENS) - There will be roughly 9.7 billion people living on Earth by the year 2050, an increase of two billion over today’s population, finds a UN population report released today. India is predicted to overtake China.
- [Cruise Ships Pollute Port City Air More Than Cars](https://ens-newswire.com/cruise-ships-pollute-port-city-air-more-than-cars/): BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 11, 2019 (ENS) - Cruise ships are choking Europe’s port cities, with the biggest cruise company, Carnival Corporation, emitting 10 times more sulphur oxides (SOx) than all of Europe’s 260 million cars, finds new research published by the European Federation for Transport and Environment, T&E, on Friday. Royal Caribbean Cruises, the %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Public Lands Critic to Oversee Fish, Wildlife and Parks](https://ens-newswire.com/public-lands-critic-to-oversee-fish-wildlife-and-parks/): The Secretary of the Interior keeps illegally shuffling political officials into jobs requiring Senate confirmation, according to a legal complaint filed today by the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER.
- [Nano Villain Blamed for Oil Pipeline Corrosion](https://ens-newswire.com/nano-villain-blamed-for-oil-pipeline-corrosion/): A form of nanoscale corrosion is responsible for unpredictable breaks in the steel pipelines that carry oil, decreasing their working life, new research has found.
- [Canada to Ban Throw-Away Plastics by 2021](https://ens-newswire.com/canada-to-ban-throw-away-plastics-by-2021/): Canada intends to ban "harmful" single-use plastics as early as 2021 and hold companies responsible for plastic waste, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today. “Canadians know first-hand the impacts of plastic pollution, and are tired of seeing their beaches, parks, streets, and shorelines littered with plastic waste.
- [US Fertilizer Plants Emit 100 Times the Methane Reported](https://ens-newswire.com/us-fertilizer-plants-emit-100-times-the-methane-reported/): Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the ammonia fertilizer industry have been greatly underestimated, finds new research from Cornell University and the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund.
- [World Environment Day: Clean Air to Stabilize Climate](https://ens-newswire.com/world-environment-day-clean-air-to-stabilize-climate/): "It is time to act decisively. My message to governments is clear: tax pollution; end fossil fuel subsidies; and stop building new coal plants. We need a green economy, not a grey economy," declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres Wednesday to mark the 45th annual World Environment Day, with its theme of beating air pollution.
- [Court Blocks Controversial Oregon Grazing Permits](https://ens-newswire.com/court-blocks-controversial-oregon-grazing-permits/): A federal judge in Oregon today granted conservation groups’ motion to block livestock from using public lands allotments near the town of Burns in central Oregon during the month of June. The temporary restraining order was issued in response to a lawsuit challenging former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s order to reinstate the grazing permits, overriding the Bureau of Land Management.
- [Powering Jet Planes With Plastic Waste](https://ens-newswire.com/powering-jet-planes-with-plastic-waste/): Scientists have found a way to turn daily-use plastic waste products into jet fuel. In a method described in a new paper in the journal "Applied Energy," a research group led by Washington State University Associate Professor Hanwu Lei melted plastic waste at a high temperature with activated carbon to produce jet fuel.
- [British Columbia Bans Sale of Gas-powered Cars by 2040](https://ens-newswire.com/british-columbia-bans-sale-of-gas-powered-cars-by-2040/): British Columbia Wednesday passed an emissions law aimed at curbing the production and sale of gasoline-fueled cars in the province, marking North America’s most progressive clean vehicle legislation to date.
- [Governments Cue Hydrogen for Global Clean Energy Role](https://ens-newswire.com/governments-cue-hydrogen-for-global-clean-energy-role/): VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, June 1, 2019 (ENS) - Hydrogen is on the move. At the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting Friday in Vancouver, governments announced a new international hydrogen partnership under the leadership of Canada, the European Commission, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States, with participation from several other CEM member countries. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
- [Leopard Seals Recognized as New Zealand Residents](https://ens-newswire.com/leopard-seals-recognized-as-new-zealand-residents/): New Zealand’s newest residents like being alone, have leopard-like spots, and can each weigh up to 600 kilos (1,320 pounds). This week leopard seals have gone from being officially classified as vagrants, to recognition as residents of New Zealand.
- [NGOs Buy Grazing Rights to Protect Argentina's Species](https://ens-newswire.com/ngos-buy-grazing-rights-to-protect-argentinas-species/): The largest protected area in Argentina's Patagonian steppe, inhabited by wildlife such as the guanaco, the Andean cat, and Andean condor, has now been further secured by conservation groups that have arranged to buy the grazing rights on the reserve from livestock producers.
- [Big Companies Ask Congress For National  Carbon Price](https://ens-newswire.com/big-companies-ask-congress-for-national-carbon-price/): Representatives of some of the largest U.S.-based corporations are asking Congress to pass meaningful climate legislation, including a price on carbon. Today, executives from more than 75 businesses,...
- [Indigenous Pipeline Protest Disrupts Trudeau Fundraiser](https://ens-newswire.com/indigenous-pipeline-protest-disrupts-trudeau-fundraiser/): An Indigenous leader demanding that cancellation of the Trans Mountain pipeline interrupted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his speech today at a Liberal fundraiser at the Opus Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Trudeau is fundraising ahead of the federal election scheduled to take place on or before October 21.
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- [Yum! Brands' Recipe for Good](https://ens-newswire.com/yum-brands-recipe-for-good/): Yum! Brands, the parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, today was named to the 100 Best Corporate Citizens list by "Corporate Responsibility Magazine" for its continued commitment to being a good corporate steward.
- [Intense Early Season Fires Burn Across Europe](https://ens-newswire.com/intense-early-season-fires-burn-across-europe/): From Norway to Spain, from the United Kingdom to Romania, the number and severity of wildfires burning at the start of this year have risen sharply from that of previous decades, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System, EFFIS.
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- [Smartphone Test Detects Arsenic-Contaminated Water](https://ens-newswire.com/smartphone-test-detects-arsenic-contaminated-water/): A smartphone device developed at the University of Edinburgh could help millions of people avoid arsenic-tainted drinking water. Water contamination by heavy metals is a worldwide health issue, and arsenic is one of the main dangers.
- [Earth's Most Famous Glaciers Could Melt Away by 2100](https://ens-newswire.com/earths-most-famous-glaciers-could-melt-away-by-2100/): Glaciers are forecast to vanish from almost half of all UNESCO World Heritage sites if business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions continue, finds the first global study of World Heritage glaciers, co-authored by scientists from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN.
- [Earth Day 2019 Marked By Climate Concerns](https://ens-newswire.com/earth-day-2019-marked-by-climate-concerns/): "Our magnificent planet is always ready for its close-up," says the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA. Today, on Earth Day, April 22, NASA wants you to share how you see it.
- [California Agencies Partner to Advance Carbon Farming](https://ens-newswire.com/california-agencies-partner-to-advance-carbon-farming/): A public-private initiative to advance climate-smart agriculture and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on agricultural lands is the newest cooperative project for two California state agencies that will create a mechanism for food and fiber businesses to directly fund climate projects on California farms and ranches.
- [Humans Threaten One Million Species With Extinction](https://ens-newswire.com/humans-threaten-one-million-species-with-extinction/): Nearly one million species are at risk of becoming extinct within decades, and current efforts to conserve the Earth’s resources will likely fail without "radical action," a United Nations report by hundreds of biodiversity experts warned on Monday.
- [Beto O'Rourke's $5 Trillion Climate Crisis Plan](https://ens-newswire.com/beto-orourkes-5-trillion-climate-crisis-plan/): Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke today proposed a climate change action plan that would mobilize $5 trillion over 10 years, require net-zero emissions by 2050 and address "the greatest threat" facing the human race. "Climate change is the greatest threat we face," O'Rourke said today, announcing his plan today at Yosemite National Park, "one which will test our country, our democracy, and every single one of us."
- [New York City Ends Reliance on Plastic Tableware](https://ens-newswire.com/new-york-city-ends-reliance-on-plastic-tableware/): New York Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order today that will end the direct city purchase of unnecessary single-use plastics in favor of compostable or recyclable alternatives. New York City purchases at least 1.1 million pounds of single-use plastic tableware every year...
- [U.S. States Fight Trump Revision of Clean Water Rule](https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-states-fight-trump-revision-of-clean-water-rule/): California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined a multistate letter urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw a proposed rule that would exclude many U.S. waterways from vital federal protections.
- [Climate Change Disrupts Recovery of Great Barrier Reef](https://ens-newswire.com/climate-change-disrupts-recovery-of-great-barrier-reef/): The damage caused to the Great Barrier Reef by the warming climate has compromised the capacity of its corals to recover, finds new research published earlier this month in the journal "Nature."
- [Curry Spices Ease Air Pollution Breathing Problems](https://ens-newswire.com/curry-spices-ease-air-pollution-breathing-problems/): Spices often used in curry can counteract respiratory problems caused by fine particle pollution in the air, finds a joint study by Japanese curry roux maker House Foods Corp. and a professor at state-run Kyoto University.

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