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UNESCO Designates 18 New Gorgeous Global Geoparks

May 24, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on UNESCO Designates 18 New Gorgeous Global Geoparks

PARIS, France, May 24, 2023 (ENS) – The United Nations is adding 18 new sites to its network of outstanding Geoparks, showcasing some of the most marvelous sites of natural [...]

Fragmented Amazon forest
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Amazon’s ‘Dark Earth’ Secret Promises Global Forest Renewal

May 7, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Amazon’s ‘Dark Earth’ Secret Promises Global Forest Renewal

SAO PAULO, Brazil, May 7, 2023 (ENS) – Millions of Amerindian people living centuries ago in today’s Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil. The result is Amazonian dark earth, ADE, [...]

Texas national monument
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Biden Guards ‘Breathtaking’ Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments

March 30, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Biden Guards ‘Breathtaking’ Lands as Nevada, Texas Monuments

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 [...]

Camp Hale
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Biden Rouses Tribal Protests With 1st Monument Designation

October 14, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Biden Rouses Tribal Protests With 1st Monument Designation

LEADVILLE, Colorado, October 14, 2022 (ENS) – President Joe Biden established the first new national monument of his presidency on Wednesday – the 53,800-acre Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in [...]

rare earth Greenland mine site
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Greenland to Host One of Few Rare Earth Mines Outside China

August 25, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Greenland to Host One of Few Rare Earth Mines Outside China

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, August 23, 2022 (ENS) – A new deal between two Canadian corporations is about to make the now-unknown name of the Sarfartoq Rare Earth Element Project famous [...]

mountain Sarawak Malaysia
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Penan Stop Loggers in Culturally Sensitive Conservation Area

July 25, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Penan Stop Loggers in Culturally Sensitive Conservation Area

BARAM, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 25, 2022 (ENS) – Indigenous Penan communities have filed a police report and erected blockades to put a permanent stop to logging of the mountain Batu [...]

Migrants US-Mexico border
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Mexico, US Cooperate to Help Central Americans Thrive at Home

July 21, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Mexico, US Cooperate to Help Central Americans Thrive at Home

WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2022 (ENS) – Mexico and the United States are taking action on a new development cooperation framework that addresses the root causes of irregular migration from [...]

forest Germany
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Natural Thirst Inspires Global First: a Law Restoring Nature

June 27, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Natural Thirst Inspires Global First: a Law Restoring Nature

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 27, 2022 (ENS) – The European Commission has adopted proposals for its first Nature Restoration Law so that the damaged ecosystems across 80 percent of Europe can [...]

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Interpol Finds Organized Crime’s Fingerprints on Gold Mining

May 2, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Interpol Finds Organized Crime’s Fingerprints on Gold Mining

LYON, France, May 2, 2022 (ENS) – A new analysis for law enforcement by Interpol, the international police force, shows “the clear involvement of organized criminals in illegal gold mining, [...]

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Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India’s Tribal Forest

April 21, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Coal Mine Expansion Authorized in India’s Tribal Forest

JAIPUR, Rajasthan, India, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – State governments in India have approved two giant new coal projects on the land of the Adivasi Indigenous people, defying a determined [...]

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Australia Fortifies Antarctic Territory Sovereignty, Science

February 26, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Australia Fortifies Antarctic Territory Sovereignty, Science

CANBERRA, Australia, February 26, 2022 (ENS) – To strengthen Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities in Antarctica, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison is making an A$804.4 million investment [...]

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Salt Intrusion Threatens Vital American Coastal Wetlands

February 11, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Salt Intrusion Threatens Vital American Coastal Wetlands

By Benjamin Seidman

CHESAPEAKE BAY, Maryland, February 11, 2022 (ENS) – In the eternal struggle between the ebb and flow of tides, high tides now have the upper hand as [...]

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Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories

December 3, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 3, 2021 (ENS) – The British Columbia government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales, BCTS, have pulled three more cutblocks from their sales plan [...]

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Illegal Logging Robs Mexico of Its Forests

November 26, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Illegal Logging Robs Mexico of Its Forests

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, November 26, 2021 (ENS) – Forests in about 15 percent of Mexico’s territory are disappearing due to illegal logging carried out by criminal groups, according to Mexico’s [...]

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Biden Renews Protections on National Monuments Trump Defiled

October 7, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Biden Renews Protections on National Monuments Trump Defiled

WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2021 (ENS) – President Joe Biden is poised to sign three proclamations restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments, [...]

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Indigenous Penan Block Logging on Their Ancestral Lands

September 16, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Indigenous Penan Block Logging on Their Ancestral Lands

LONG AJENG, Sarawak, Malaysia, September 16, 2021 (ENS) – In Malaysian Borneo, a dozen indigenous Penan communities of Sarawak’s Upper Baram region have acted in concert to stop the bulldozers [...]

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RCMP Arrest 900+ in Conflict Over Old-Growth Forest Logging

September 14, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on RCMP Arrest 900+ in Conflict Over Old-Growth Forest Logging

PORT RENFREW, British Columbia, Canada, September 14, 2021 (ENS) – The battle over protest blockades raised on southwestern Vancouver Island to prevent logging of some of Canada’s largest old-growth trees [...]

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IUCN to Coordinate Sustainability of Nature-based Solutions

September 9, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on IUCN to Coordinate Sustainability of Nature-based Solutions

MARSEILLE, France, September 9, 2021 (ENS) – The IUCN World Conservation Congress amplified its environmental decision-making on Wednesday by introducing a plan to develop a collaborative certification system for Nature-based [...]

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2,500 Scientists Take the Pulse of Earth’s Tropical Forests

July 3, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 2,500 Scientists Take the Pulse of Earth’s Tropical Forests

LEEDS, UK, July 3, 2021 (ENS) – A global network of researchers is cooperatively investigating tropical forests wherever they grow on the planet to explore the effects of climate change [...]

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90+ NGOs Urge EU Parliament to Rethink ‘Green’ Finance List

June 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 90+ NGOs Urge EU Parliament to Rethink ‘Green’ Finance List

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 21, 2021 (ENS) – More than 90 environmental and consumer groups have appealed to the European Parliament to postpone their judgement on sustainable finance rules that would [...]

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