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New U.S. Gov Portal Shows Climate Stressors in Real Time

September 10, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on New U.S. Gov Portal Shows Climate Stressors in Real Time

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, [...]

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UN Petitioned to Save Pantanal Wetland Wildlife From Fires

August 21, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on UN Petitioned to Save Pantanal Wetland Wildlife From Fires

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 [...]

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Europe Sizzles and Burns in Record Heat

August 9, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Europe Sizzles and Burns in Record Heat

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. [...]

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Siberian Wildfires Doubly Dangerous to Distracted Russia

May 20, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Siberian Wildfires Doubly Dangerous to Distracted Russia

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 [...]

Gov/Politics

Congress OKs Climate, Energy, Water Spending in $1.5T Bill

March 12, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Congress OKs Climate, Energy, Water Spending in $1.5T Bill

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 [...]

Gov/Politics

Plastics Pact, Wildfires Top UN Environment Assembly Agenda

February 28, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on 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, [...]

Air/Climate

World ‘Heading for Climate Disaster,’ UN Chief Warns COP26

November 2, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on World ‘Heading for Climate Disaster,’ UN Chief Warns COP26

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 [...]

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CALIFORNIA: Newsom Signs $15B Climate Crisis Spending Bill

September 24, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on CALIFORNIA: Newsom Signs $15B Climate Crisis Spending Bill

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 [...]

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Ancient Olympia Saved From Wildfire, Arson Suspects in Custody

August 7, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Ancient Olympia Saved From Wildfire, Arson Suspects in Custody

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 [...]

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CALIFORNIA: Fires Force Utility to Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines

July 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on CALIFORNIA: Fires Force Utility to Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines

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 [...]

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OREGON: Uncontained Bootleg Fire Threatens California Power Supply

July 13, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on OREGON: Uncontained Bootleg Fire Threatens California Power Supply

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 [...]

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Northern California Burns as Biden Vows Help to Fight Fires

June 30, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Northern California Burns as Biden Vows Help to Fight Fires

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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Climate Change Intensifies Despite Pandemic Lockdowns

September 10, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Change Intensifies Despite Pandemic Lockdowns

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 10, 2020 (ENS) – Already at their highest levels in three million years, greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere continue to increase, lockdowns around the world [...]

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Rampaging Fires Send U.S. Western Forests Up in Smoke

September 9, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Rampaging Fires Send U.S. Western Forests Up in Smoke

 

EUGENE, Oregon, September 8, 2020 (ENS) – Smoke filled the air in this university city on Tuesday, turning the sky orange and the sun red, as it did across [...]

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Deadly California Fires Roar Through Ancient Redwoods

August 23, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Deadly California Fires Roar Through Ancient Redwoods

 

SACRAMENTO, California, August 23, 2020 (ENS) – First came the heatwave, then thousands of lightning strikes, now hundreds of fires.

After more than 10,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours, [...]

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Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fires Spreading Radioactivity

April 18, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fires Spreading Radioactivity

 

KYIV, Ukraine, April 18, 2020 (ENS) – A huge forest fire in Ukraine that blazed for more than 10 days came within one kilometer (.6 miles) of the [...]

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Trump, Thunberg Clash at World Economic Forum

January 22, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Trump, Thunberg Clash at World Economic Forum

 

DAVOS, Switzerland, January 21, 2020 (ENS) – After a year of floods and droughts, when wildfires devastated Australia and the Amazon, and Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg [...]

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Smoke From Indonesia’s Illegal Fires Chokes SE Asia

October 19, 2015 News Editor Comments Off on Smoke From Indonesia’s Illegal Fires Chokes SE Asia

 

JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 19, 2015 (ENS) – Fires started illegally to clear land for oil palm and acacia pulp plantations in Indonesia are sending thick smoke over the [...]

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  • COLORADO: Wild Horses Get New Refuge Larger Than Manhattan
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