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  Burning Plastic for Heating, Cooking, Poisons Poor Families

  January 8, 2026 0

  PERTH, Western Australia, January 8, 2026 (ENS) – A new Curtin University-led study has shed fresh light on the number of households in developing countries that are burning plastic as an everyday energy source, giving [...]

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  Hunger Stalks 68 Nations Due to Conflict, Disaster, Climate

  December 27, 2025 0

  KABUL, Afghanistan, December 27, 2025 (ENS) – Food insecurity threatening lives and livelihoods is on the rise in Afghanistan as winter closes in. More than 17 million Afghans are starving in freezing temperatures as the [...]

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  More Healthy Meals at School Would Advance Planetary Health

  December 24, 2025 0

  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,” [...]

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  Taiwan Opens ‘TRE100’ Green Energy Drive to Small Businesses

  December 20, 2025 0

  TAIPEI, Taiwan, December 20, 2025 (ENS) – The Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research launched the “TRE100” green energy initiative on December 12, showing that its standards and certification mechanisms are consistent with the international RE100 [...]

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  Polar Bear DNA Changing to Survive Warming Greenland

  December 13, 2025 Comments Off on Polar Bear DNA Changing to Survive Warming Greenland

  NORWICH, England, UK, December 12, 2025 (ENS) – As the planet heats up, a population of polar bears living in southeastern Greenland appear to be adjusting to their warmer environment, new research by scientists at [...]

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  FEMA Disaster Prevention Funding Rescued by Court Ruling

  December 13, 2025 Comments Off on FEMA Disaster Prevention Funding Rescued by Court Ruling

  BOSTON Massachusetts, December 12, 2025 (ENS) – Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and a coalition of 20 states Thursday won their lawsuit against the Trump administration over its unlawful attempt to shut down an [...]

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  Sub-Saharan Africa Suffers 24 Percent Biodiversity Decline

  December 11, 2025 Comments Off on Sub-Saharan Africa Suffers 24 Percent Biodiversity Decline

  JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, December 11, 2025 (ENS) – Sub-Saharan Africa has lost 24 percent of its biodiversity since pre-industrial times, and large mammals have declined the most, finds new research from the 108-year-old School of [...]

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  Climate Talks Overcome Politics to Make Progress in Brazil

  December 10, 2025 Comments Off on Climate Talks Overcome Politics to Make Progress in Brazil

  BELEM, Brazil, December 10, 2025 (ENS) – This year’s annual United Nations’ 2025 Climate Change Conference, COP 30, convened exactly one month ago in the Brazilian city of Belém as political tensions around the world [...]

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  Brazil Dismantles Hundreds of Illegal Gold Mining Dredges

  November 5, 2025 Comments Off on Brazil Dismantles Hundreds of Illegal Gold Mining Dredges

  LYON, France, November 5, 2025 (ENS) – In a blow to criminal organizations along South America’s Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges used in illegal gold extraction worth an estimated US$6.8 million. [...]

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  KENTUCKY: Fatal Chronic Wasting Disease Spreads in Wild Deer

  November 2, 2025 Comments Off on KENTUCKY: Fatal Chronic Wasting Disease Spreads in Wild Deer

  FRANKFORT, Kentucky, November 2, 2025 (ENS) – In Kentucky, a second wild deer has been confirmed with chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurologic disease that infects deer, elk and moose. Officials with the Kentucky Department [...]