Hungry for Facts? Eat 'Em Up at ENS!

  • About
  • Air/Climate
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Gov/Politics
  • Oceans
  • Transport
  • Wildlife
  • Subscribe
  • RSS
News Ticker
HomeWorld Health Organization

World Health Organization

Health

Animals Can Form Viral Reservoirs Where Covid Variants Breed

March 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Animals Can Form Viral Reservoirs Where Covid Variants Breed

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2022 (ENS) – SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is still spreading among people globally as we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The [...]

At Risk

Russia-Ukraine War Creates a Million Refugees, EU Admits Them

March 6, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Russia-Ukraine War Creates a Million Refugees, EU Admits Them

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – On a press call to Geneva from Ukraine, Poland and Moldova on Friday, United Nations officials confirmed the vast numbers of Ukrainians who [...]

Latest News

Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries

December 1, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries

PARIS, France, December 1, 2021 (ENS) – The first global agreement on the ethics of artificial intelligence, AI, was adopted Thursday by 193 countries. All the member states of the [...]

Health

G20 Creates Finance-Health Task Force to Address Pandemics

October 30, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on G20 Creates Finance-Health Task Force to Address Pandemics

ROME, Italy, October 30, 2021 (ENS) – The G20 nations are getting serious about controlling the coronavirus pandemic and any future pandemic that might arise. On Friday in their first [...]

At Risk

Afghanistan Starves, Health System on ‘Brink of Collapse’

October 3, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Afghanistan Starves, Health System on ‘Brink of Collapse’

KABUL, Afghanistan, October 3, 2021 (ENS) – Some 18 million Afghans are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, health services across the country are at risk of collapse and widespread [...]

Health

Bloomberg Healthy Cities Partnership Expands to 70 Cities

August 20, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Bloomberg Healthy Cities Partnership Expands to 70 Cities

NEW YORK, New York, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a $31 million investment to bring six new cities on three continents into its Partnership for Healthy [...]

RSS

Millions of Children Poisoned by Flood of Toxic E-Waste

July 9, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Millions of Children Poisoned by Flood of Toxic E-Waste

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 9, 2021 (ENS) – Effective, binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the [...]

Health

G20 Health Ministers Dissolve Barriers to Sharing Billion+ Vaccine Doses

May 23, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on G20 Health Ministers Dissolve Barriers to Sharing Billion+ Vaccine Doses

ROME, Italy, May 23, 2021 (ENS) – Leaders of the G20 have committed to a series of actions to accelerate the end of the COVID-19 crisis throughout the world and [...]

Health

Wealthy Nations Asked to Delay Youth Vaccines, Donate to COVAX

May 16, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Wealthy Nations Asked to Delay Youth Vaccines, Donate to COVAX

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 14, 2021 (ENS) – Scanty vaccine supplies in low and lower-middle income countries cannot cover even the innoculation of health care workers, the head of the World [...]

swearing in
Gov/Politics

President Joe Biden Protects Environment on Day One

January 20, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on President Joe Biden Protects Environment on Day One

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 20, 2021 (ENS) – “A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear,” President [...]

health
Health

Calling All Film-Makers

November 9, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Calling All Film-Makers

 

By Georgia Seidman

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 9, 2020 (ENS) – The opportunity has arrived for young film-makers to submit an original short film to the second Health for All [...]

Health

Virus Quarantines World Health Organization Chief

November 2, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Virus Quarantines World Health Organization Chief

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 2, 2020 (ENS) – The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is in quarantine tonight as he has been exposed to the [...]

food
Business

Impact Investors Confront Coronavirus Crisis

May 18, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Impact Investors Confront Coronavirus Crisis

 

NEW YORK, New York, May 18, 2020 (ENS) – A new coalition of impact investors has come together to bring their formidable entrepreneurial skills to bear on the [...]

von der Layden
At Risk

Global Vaccine Telethon Raises $8 Billion Without USA

May 5, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Global Vaccine Telethon Raises $8 Billion Without USA

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – To battle the deadly coronavirus, six countries, the European Commission and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Monday pledged billions in [...]

vaccine
At Risk

Global Collaboration Accelerates New COVID-19 Weapons

April 24, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Global Collaboration Accelerates New COVID-19 Weapons

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 24, 2020 (ENS) – The World Health Organization, heads of government, health officials, philanthropists, and the private sector partnered Friday in a collaboration to speed [...]

Ameriscan

  • PENNSYLVANIA: Air Pollution Costs U.S. Steel $1.5 Million
    May 17, 2022 Comments Off on PENNSYLVANIA: Air Pollution Costs U.S. Steel $1.5 Million
  • MARYLAND: State Seeks $100M Compensation for Ship Grounding
    April 26, 2022 Comments Off on MARYLAND: State Seeks $100M Compensation for Ship Grounding
  • OREGON: Extremist Pleads Guilty to Arson Conspiracies
    April 22, 2022 Comments Off on OREGON: Extremist Pleads Guilty to Arson Conspiracies
  • RHODE ISLAND: 1,000 Free Trees Help Save Energy and Water 
    April 19, 2022 Comments Off on RHODE ISLAND: 1,000 Free Trees Help Save Energy and Water 

Categories

Recent Posts
  • PENNSYLVANIA: Air Pollution Costs U.S. Steel $1.5 Million
  • Extreme Storms May Protect Beaches Against Sea-level Rise
  • Wastewater Recycling Sends Microplastics Back to Soil, Ocean
  • Interpol Finds Organized Crime’s Fingerprints on Gold Mining
  • New Enzyme Can Gobble Plastic Waste by the Billions of Tons
  • About
  • Contact
  • Environment News Service Terms and Conditions and Statement of Privacy
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Land Use/Forests
  • Oceans
  • Transport
  • Waste
  • Water
  • Wildlife
  • Home
  • Subscribe to ENS Email Bulletins: They’re Free!
  • Feeds
  • Subscribe to ENS RSS Feed

Environment News Service (ENS) © 2021 All Rights Reserved.