BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 25, 2023 (ENS) – The European Commission has proposed the EU’s first Forest Monitoring Law to plug existing gaps in information about European forests. It is expected [...]
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Temperature records were again shattered in October, continuing a streak of high land and ocean surface temperatures and low sea ice, according to [...]
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 [...]
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Governor Josh Green, M.D., and First Lady Jaime Kanani Green accompanied President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Maui Mayor Richard [...]
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 16, 2023 (ENS) – At least 106 people have died in the flames that consumed the historic town of Lahaina and other parts of Maui, and [...]
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 13, 2023 (ENS) – Hawaii Governor Josh Green and Maui County officials said today that the fire death toll from this week’s wildfires in the historic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
PARIS, France, August 21, 2022 (ENS) – As this year’s fire season intensifies, wildfires in Brazil are jeopardizing the world’s largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal, and its rare and imperiled [...]
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 9, 2022 (ENS) – Authorities are scrambling water-bomber planes and hundreds of exhausted firefighters are gearing up again to battle the wildfires racing through Europe this summer. [...]
By Benjamin Seidman
KRASNOYARSK, Russia, May 20, 2022 (ENS) – Early season wildfires in Siberia this spring threaten yet another record-breaking fire season in Russia, while the Russian government continues [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
GLASGOW, Scotland, November 1, 2021 (ENS) – “The six years since the Paris Climate Agreement have been the six hottest years on record. Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing [...]
SACRAMENTO, California, September 24, 2021 (ENS) – Among the towering ancient trees in Sequoia National Park, near the site of this season’s devastating KNP Complex fire, Governor Gavin Newsom Thursday [...]
ATHENS, Greece, August 7, 2021 (ENS) – An extensive fire on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece today threatened the site of Ancient Olympia, where the first Olympic Games were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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