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Race for a Virus Shield: 50 Vaccines in Development
WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2020 (ENS) – Vaccine researchers around the world are laser-focused on developing a vaccine to defeat COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel [...]
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Health
Wuhan CoronaVirus Spreading, More Than 80 Have Died
WUHAN, China, January 27, 2020 (ENS) – A new strain of coronavirus is worrying doctors at the World Health Organization, WHO, and medical officials around the world. Doctors [...]
Business
Leaders Pledge Decade of Action for Sustainable Goals
NEW YORK, New York, September 28, 2019 (ENS) – The first United Nations summit on the progress of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development closed on a hopeful [...]
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California Becomes First State to Outlaw Fur Trapping
SACRAMENTO, California, September 5, 2019 (ENS) – In a victory for wildlife, California has become the first U.S. state to outlaw fur trapping. The Wildlife Protection Act of [...]
Gov/Politics
Trump Disrupts France’s Effort to Green the G7 Summit
BIARRITZ, France, August 26, 2019 (ENS) – The seven industrialized countries that make up the Group of Seven (G7) – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom [...]
Air/Climate
Student Climate Strikers: Don’t Burn Our Future
WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2019 (ENS) – Millions of young people in 123 countries are skipping classes and staying out of school today on a strike for immediate [...]
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Women Seek Equality, Balance on International Women’s Day
NEW YORK, New York, March 8, 2019 (ENS) – International Women’s Day (IWD) has two themes this year. The theme “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change,” addresses [...]
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Sustainable Aviation Takes Off at ICAO Meeting
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, February 15, 2019 (ENS) – Measures to address aviation’s environmental impact globally were agreed at today’s meeting of the 250 experts on the Committee on [...]
Energy
Building The World’s Largest Solar Project
NEW YORK, New York, March 28, 2018 (ENS) – Saudi Arabia wants to pour US$200 billion into solar to build the world’s largest solar project.
The Saudi sovereign wealth [...]
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Legal East Asian Markets Are Gutting Africa’s Wildlife
By Don Pinnock
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 15, 2018 (ENS) – Quite apart from the decimation of illegal poaching, legal export to Asian markets is tearing the [...]
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Giant Oil Spill Contaminates East China Sea
BEIJING, China, January 17, 2018 (ENS) – An Iranian tanker carrying a full load of natural gas condensate that sank Sunday has been found on the bottom of the [...]
Air/Climate
2017: One of Earth’s Top Three Hottest Years
BONN, Germany, November 6, 2017 (ENS) – The year 2017 is very likely to be one of the three hottest years on record, with catastrophic hurricanes and floods, [...]
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Mexico Launches Vaquita Roundup Using U.S. Dolphins
SAN FELIPE, Mexico, October 13, 2017 (ENS) – An international team of experts has gathered in San Felipe at the request of the Mexican Ministry of Environment and [...]
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New York Crushes Tons of Elephant Ivory in Central Park
NEW YORK, New York, August 4, 2017 (ENS) – Two tons of confiscated illegal ivory were crushed in New York’s Central Park on Thursday in an event hosted [...]
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World Wildlife Day: Youth Involvement Urgently Needed
NEW YORK, New York, March 3, 2017 (ENS) – As the sun rose on UN World Wildlife Day across the globe today, the morning opened in Kenya with [...]
Food
Climate-Smart Rice the ‘Crop of the Future’
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines, February 24, 2017 (ENS) – More than half of the world’s population, nearly four billion people, eat rice as their daily staple, but the changing [...]
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Cities Provide Refuge for Threatened Species
HONG KONG, China, January 8, 2017 (ENS) – Poached nearly to extinction in their homelands, rare and threatened birds and animals have found refuge in cities like Hong [...]
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China Bans Ivory Trade to Foil Elephant Poachers
BEIJING, China, December 31, 2016 (ENS) – China will ban its domestic ivory trade by the end of 2017, the government announced Friday, a new policy conservationists are [...]
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CITES Opening Day: Ceremonies, Rhetoric and Drama
By Judith Needham, JD, LLM, MPH
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 25, 2016 (ENS) – “It is a great pleasure to be here in the City of Johannesburg – [...]