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  Brazilian Floods Expose Survivors to Waterborne Disease

  May 28, 2024 Comments Off on Brazilian Floods Expose Survivors to Waterborne Disease

  PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 28, 2024 (ENS) – “You got into the mud, walked through flood water and had symptoms of leptospirosis? Seek health care, as there is treatment and we have enough medication. Treatment [...]

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  Record Ocean Heat Generates Active Atlantic Hurricane Season

  May 25, 2024 Comments Off on Record Ocean Heat Generates Active Atlantic Hurricane Season

  COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 25, 2025 (ENS) – Bring in the lawn furniture, folks, and bar the doors and windows. There is an 85 percent chance that the countries and U.S. states bordering the Atlantic [...]

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  Dementia Risk Rises as Air Pollution Inflames the Brain

  May 22, 2024 Comments Off on Dementia Risk Rises as Air Pollution Inflames the Brain

  COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 20, 2024 (ENS) – Long-term exposure to air pollution leads to increased dementia risk, new research from the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medial Sciences suggests. […]

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  OHIO: Truck Emissions Defeat Device Installer Imprisoned

  May 19, 2024 Comments Off on OHIO: Truck Emissions Defeat Device Installer Imprisoned

  CINNCINATI, Ohio, May 19, 2024 (ENS) – Bypassing a vehicle’s emissions components can increase airborne particulate matter up to 40 times, nitrogen oxides 310 times, carbon monoxide 120 times, and non-methane hydrocarbons 1,100 times, a [...]

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  ALABAMA: Lowndes County Residents to Get Modern Sanitation

  May 19, 2024 Comments Off on ALABAMA: Lowndes County Residents to Get Modern Sanitation

  MONTGOMERY, Alabama, May 19, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, are proclaiming progress has been made by the Alabama Department of Public Health in providing [...]

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  EU Hosts Global Ocean Meetings, Sets Goals, Raises Billions

  May 6, 2024 Comments Off on EU Hosts Global Ocean Meetings, Sets Goals, Raises Billions

  BARCELONA, Spain, May 5, 2024 (ENS) – The 2024 Ocean Decade Conference, held in Barcelona from April 10 to 12, attracted over 1,500 participants from 124 countries and thousands of online viewers. Under the theme [...]

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  Heatwave Multiplies Gaza’s Misery, Hunger, Disease Risk

  April 26, 2024 Comments Off on Heatwave Multiplies Gaza’s Misery, Hunger, Disease Risk

  GAZA, April 26, 2024 (ENS) – Scorching temperatures across Gaza have magnified the daily suffering faced by the area’s displaced people and renewed fears of disease outbreaks due to a lack of clean water and [...]

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  OHIO: Trumpeter Swans Removed from Threatened Species List

  April 25, 2024 Comments Off on OHIO: Trumpeter Swans Removed from Threatened Species List

  COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 25, 2024 (ENS) – Ohio is celebrating the recovery of the state’s trumpeter swans as a conservation success story. The Ohio Wildlife Council, an eight-member, bipartisan group of citizens, has voted to [...]

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  Limits on PFAS in Drinking Water to Benefit 100M Americans

  April 25, 2024 Comments Off on Limits on PFAS in Drinking Water to Benefit 100M Americans

  WASHINGTON, DC, April 24, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued the first national, legally enforceable drinking water standard to protect communities from exposure to harmful per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, often called [...]

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  OREGON: Vandal Poisons Thousands of Young Hatchery Salmon

  April 25, 2024 Comments Off on OREGON: Vandal Poisons Thousands of Young Hatchery Salmon

  REEDSPORT, Oregon, April 25, 2024 (ENS) – Nearly 18,000 young salmon have died after a vandal poured bleach into a Douglas County fish hatchery tank Monday, according to law enforcement authorities. The estimated 18,000 fish [...]

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  Earth Day: Biden Expands Climate Corps, Offers Solar for All

  April 22, 2024 Comments Off on Earth Day: Biden Expands Climate Corps, Offers Solar for All

  WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2024 (ENS) – Celebrating Earth Day today, President Joe Biden traveled to Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, a national park site developed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation [...]

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  VIRGINIA: Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Gets Final Permit

  April 15, 2024 Comments Off on VIRGINIA: Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Gets Final Permit

  WASHINGTON, DC, April 14, 2024 (ENS) – Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial, CVOW-C, project located off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. has this week received its final Clean Air Act Outer Continental [...]

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  Advanced Atomic Particle Collider Going Up on Long Island

  April 12, 2024 Comments Off on Advanced Atomic Particle Collider Going Up on Long Island

  ALBANY, New York, April 12, 2024 (ENS) – The world’s most exciting cutting-edge Electron-Ion Collider, expected to generate fresh insights into the structure and behavior of atomic particles, will be built over the next 10 [...]

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  Off the Rez: S. Dakota Governor Banned From 10% of Her State

  April 10, 2024 Comments Off on Off the Rez: S. Dakota Governor Banned From 10% of Her State

  FORT YATES, North Dakota, April 10, 2024 (ENS) – The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation spans the border between the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, but as of now the Governor of South Dakota [...]

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  Elderly Swiss Women Win Climate Case on Human Rights Grounds

  April 9, 2024 Comments Off on Elderly Swiss Women Win Climate Case on Human Rights Grounds

  STRASBOURG, France, April 9, 2024 (ENS) – The European Court of Human Rights today sided with a group of senior Swiss women who sued the government of Switzerland for placing them at greater risk of [...]

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  TEXAS: Japanese-Owned Company Fined $6.6M for Hazmat Fire

  April 5, 2024 Comments Off on TEXAS: Japanese-Owned Company Fined $6.6M for Hazmat Fire

  DEER PARK, Texas, April 5, 2024 (ENS) – The Japanese-owned Intercontinental Terminals Company has agreed to pay more than US$6.6 million to federal and Texas state natural resource trustees over natural resource damages from a [...]

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  It’s Wild Horses vs Livestock on U.S. Public Lands

  April 3, 2024 Comments Off on It’s Wild Horses vs Livestock on U.S. Public Lands

  LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 3, 2024 (ENS) – “The whir of helicopter blades deafens the peaceful swish of sagebrush. Hundreds of hooves descend upon the baking Western foothills: sweat and blood and death staining the [...]

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  $60 Million Starts Salvage of Baltimore’s Broken Bridge

  March 31, 2024 Comments Off on $60 Million Starts Salvage of Baltimore’s Broken Bridge

  BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 2, 2024 (ENS) – The tugboat Crystal Coast pushing a fuel barge, sailed through the temporary alternate channel created by the Key Bridge Response Unified Command, at 3 pm Monday afternoon. It [...]

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  Water Scarcity Eroding World Peace, United Nations Warns

  March 24, 2024 Comments Off on Water Scarcity Eroding World Peace, United Nations Warns

  PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) – Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water to [...]

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  CALIFORNIA: Chevron Fined Record $13M for Ongoing Oil Spills

  March 22, 2024 Comments Off on CALIFORNIA: Chevron Fined Record $13M for Ongoing Oil Spills

  SACRAMENTO, California, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Oil giant Chevron has agreed to pay a record-breaking $13 million in settlement agreements to two California state resource agencies for oil spills in Kern County in 2019 [...]

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  New EPA Emissions Rule Expands Automakers’ Time to Electrify

  March 21, 2024 Comments Off on New EPA Emissions Rule Expands Automakers’ Time to Electrify

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Final national pollution standards for passenger cars, light- and medium-duty vehicles for upcoming model years 2027 through 2032 were set this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [...]

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  Earth Hour Evolves Into the Biggest Hour for Earth

  March 21, 2024 Comments Off on Earth Hour Evolves Into the Biggest Hour for Earth

  SINGAPORE, March 21, 2024 (ENS) – Across the world, people by the millions will be turning off their lights – going dark for one hour on Saturday, March 23, starting at 8:30 in the evening [...]

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  River Protectors Warn Banks as to Central Asia’s Biggest Dam

  March 16, 2024 Comments Off on River Protectors Warn Banks as to Central Asia’s Biggest Dam

  OAKLAND, California, March 15, 2024 (ENS) – Monday was the 27th International Day of Action for Rivers, a day when all across the world rivers were cleaned, dams were protested, webinars and classes were taught, [...]

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  HAWAII: Habitat Protected for 11 Rare Plants, One Unique Fly

  March 12, 2024 Comments Off on HAWAII: Habitat Protected for 11 Rare Plants, One Unique Fly

  HONOLULU, Hawai’i, March 12, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a Hawaiian picture-wing fly found only on the Big Island [...]

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  Slow Food Movement Grows Where Women’s Rights Are Strong

  March 8, 2024 Comments Off on Slow Food Movement Grows Where Women’s Rights Are Strong

  BRA, Italy, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – “Inspire Inclusion” is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. Celebrated annually on March 8, which this year falls on Friday, organizers are exploring the connection between [...]

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  International Women’s Month: In Afghanistan Oppression Grows

  March 8, 2024 Comments Off on International Women’s Month: In Afghanistan Oppression Grows

  KABUL, Afghanistan, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – On this International Women’s Day, few women are on the streets of Afghan’s capital city, Kabul, and those that are out are with a male relative and covered [...]

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  Biden’s State of the Union Climate Points Short But Crucial

  March 8, 2024 Comments Off on Biden’s State of the Union Climate Points Short But Crucial

  WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2024 (ENS) – President Joe Biden entered the House of Representatives Thursday night to deliver the final State of the Union address for this term with a brilliant smile and a [...]

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  Modern Alchemist Profitably Extracts Gold From E-Waste

  March 6, 2024 Comments Off on Modern Alchemist Profitably Extracts Gold From E-Waste

  ZURICH, Switzerland, March 6, 2024 (ENS) – Transforming base materials into gold was one of the unachieved aims of ancient alchemists. But now Professor Raffaele Mezzenga from the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at [...]

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  NEW YORK: Two Dead: Raw Milk Cheese Producer Pleads Guilty

  March 5, 2024 Comments Off on NEW YORK: Two Dead: Raw Milk Cheese Producer Pleads Guilty

  SYRACUSE, New York, March 5, 2024 (ENS) – A former raw milk cheese manufacturer and the company he owned and managed pleaded guilty today to charges regarding cheese that was linked to a 2016-2017 outbreak [...]

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  UK Ship Sunk By Houthis Leaking Oil, Could Spill Fertilizer

  March 2, 2024 Comments Off on UK Ship Sunk By Houthis Leaking Oil, Could Spill Fertilizer

  ADEN, Yemen, March 2, 2024 (ENS) – The UK-owned cargo ship Rubymar, attacked by Houthi militants in mid-February, finally sank in the Red Sea Friday night off the coast of Yemen in rough, stormy seas. [...]