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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, November 29, 2020 (ENS) – 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. […]

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.” […]

QUITO, Ecuador, February 3, 2022 (ENS) – An oil spill has contaminated a protected area of rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon and polluted the Coca River that supplies water to Indigenous communities, says Ecuador’s environment ministry. […]