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Dam Collapse Puts Europe’s Largest Nuclear Plant in Jeopardy

June 13, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Dam Collapse Puts Europe’s Largest Nuclear Plant in Jeopardy

KYIV, Ukraine, June 13, 2023 (ENS) – Experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency are seeking access to a location near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, ZNPP, to clarify the [...]

Ukraine bomb damage
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Ukrainian, U.S. Prosecutors Go After Environmental War Crimes

May 19, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Ukrainian, U.S. Prosecutors Go After Environmental War Crimes

WASHINGTON, DC, May 19, 2023 (ENS) – Eight guests from the Ukraine Prosecutor General’s Office are in Washington this week for a series of training and study sessions at the [...]

Zelensky, Grossi
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Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons

March 27, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons

VIENNA, Austria, March 27, 2023 (ENS) – International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday to plan protection for the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear [...]

Cyclone Freddy damage
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Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579

March 21, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579

BLANTYRE, Malawi, March 21, 2023 (ENS) – Tropical Cyclone Freddy is a record-breaking storm that has astonished meteorologists with its longevity. As part of its final act, the cyclone unleashed [...]

snow California
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Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency

March 9, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency

SACRAMENTO, California, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Knowing that a series of storms are forecast to continue blowing across California through mid-March, and an atmospheric river event is predicted for [...]

Earthquke survivors Turkiye
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Earthquakes Kill 29,000+, Smash Buildings in Turkiye and Syria

February 7, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Earthquakes Kill 29,000+, Smash Buildings in Turkiye and Syria

ANKARA, Turkiye, February 12, 2023 (ENS) – At least 29,600 people have died and thousands more were injured in 10 provinces after two major earthquakes shook southern Turkiye and surrounding [...]

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Cyclone Bomb, Atmospheric River Soak California, Kill Two

January 7, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Cyclone Bomb, Atmospheric River Soak California, Kill Two

SACRAMENTO, California, January 7, 2023 (ENS) – What the National Weather Service calls an “incessant parade of storms” continues to batter California with heavy rain, damaging winds, and heavy snow. [...]

Bombed Out Kyiv
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Ukraine Faces Power, Water, Food Shortages as Winter Looms

November 2, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Ukraine Faces Power, Water, Food Shortages as Winter Looms

KYIV, Ukraine, November 3, 2022 (ENS) – Continuing attacks by Russian forces against Ukraine’s essential civilian infrastructure are disrupting access to key services. Power and water supply systems have sustained [...]

Hurricane Ian
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Monstrous Hurricane Ian Smashes into Florida as a Category 4

September 28, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Monstrous Hurricane Ian Smashes into Florida as a Category 4

MIAMI, Florida, September 28, 2022 (ENS) – Blowing 155 miles per hour, Hurricane Ian made landfall this afternoon near the Florida barrier island of Cayo Costo off the southwest panhandle [...]

Csaba Kőrösi
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UN: World in ‘Permanent State’ of Humanitarian Emergency

September 20, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on UN: World in ‘Permanent State’ of Humanitarian Emergency

NEW YORK, New York, September 20, 2022 (ENS) – Calling it “the most consequential moment of the last four decades,” Csaba Kőrösi of Hungary, the new president of the United [...]

Thwaites Glacier
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Antarctic Glacier Collapse Could Surge Global Sea Levels

September 8, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Antarctic Glacier Collapse Could Surge Global Sea Levels

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, September 8, 2022 (ENS) – The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, a vast glacier about the size of Florida, is already in a phase of fast retreat [...]

IAEA Team Grossi
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UN Nuclear Agency Demands Safety Zone at Russian-Held Plant

September 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on UN Nuclear Agency Demands Safety Zone at Russian-Held Plant

VIENNA, Austria, September 7, 2022 (ENS) – The establishment of a Nuclear Safety and Security Protection Zone at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, in Ukraine is urgently needed to [...]

Pakistan flood victims
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Flooded Pakistan Counts 1,100 Dead, Seeks $160M Relief Cash

August 30, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Flooded Pakistan Counts 1,100 Dead, Seeks $160M Relief Cash

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, August 30, 2022 (ENS) – More than 1,100 people, including 350 children, have lost their lives since June as the worst monsoon rains in decades, severe floods and [...]

Jabiru stork
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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 [...]

wildfire France
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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 [...]

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Africa Starves Under The Blazing Sun

April 21, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Africa Starves Under The Blazing Sun

DUBLIN, Ireland, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – Trucking water into communities who are somehow surviving the drought gripping the East African country of Somalia, has got Ireland’s largest aid organization [...]

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Communication Lost With Russian-Held Chernobyl Nuclear Site

March 11, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Communication Lost With Russian-Held Chernobyl Nuclear Site

VIENNA, Austria, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – Ukraine’s nuclear regulator lost all communications with the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the disaster site where radioactive spent fuel is stored, on Monday, [...]

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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 [...]

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Russians Break Safety Rules at Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant

March 6, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Russians Break Safety Rules at Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant

VIENNA, Austria, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency today that although regular staff continues to operate the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, the plant management [...]

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