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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 [...]
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Ocean Species Suffer as Nations at COP15 Confront Extinctions
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2022 (ENS) – Today’s update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species exposes the many threats wiping out marine species – illegal and unsustainable [...]
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Earth’s Biodiversity Crisis Activates Governments, Police
LYON, France, December 7, 2022 (ENS) – A wildlife and timber trading law enforcement crackdown by the international police force Interpol and the World Customs Organization has yielded more than [...]
Gov/Politics
Plastics Pact, Wildfires Top UN Environment Assembly Agenda
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 28, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s foremost environmental decision-making body, the United Nations Environment Assembly, opens its annual meeting today in Nairobi. For the next three days, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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NEW JERSEY: State Replants Native Atlantic White Cedar Forests
TRENTON, New Jersey, September 26, 2021 (ENS) – New Jersey’s native Atlantic white cedar forests have been harmed by climate change, suffering sea-level rise and storm surge that sent saltwater [...]
Air/Climate
Biden’s 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Salt Pollution Threatens Human Water Security
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 [...]
Business
French Companies Integrate Biodiversity Impact Assessment
PARIS, France, October 27, 2020 (ENS) – A tool that will allow investors to measure how their investments impact biodiversity – the diversity of plants and animals – is [...]