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NEW YORK, New York, December 14, 2024 (ENS) – Again this year, as it does every year, the New York-based nonprofit International Rescue Committee has issued an Emergency Watchlist spotlighting [...]
The post Cries the World Must Hear, Crises the World Can Halt in 2025 first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2025 ENS - The reporting of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a complex system that serves both national and international reporting requirements to mitigate climate change, is being dismantled by the Trump administration. [...]
The post Trump Demolishes U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
"Forty years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer - guided by science, united in action," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today, in honor of the day in March 1985 when 28 nations agreed on the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the parent treaty behind the Montreal Protocol. [...]
The post Protecting Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer: A Success Story first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
DENVER, Colorado, September 15, 2025 (ENS) - Environmental justice and conservation groups today sounded the alarm over a backroom deal to avoid enforcement of key water permit provisions that was forged between the State of Colorado and the Suncor Energy - Commerce City Refinery, a petroleum refining facility in Commerce City, just northeast of Denver. [...]
The post COLORADO: Backroom Deal Lets Suncor Avoid Water Permit Rules first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 15, 2025 (ENS) - Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have found a way to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable capture of the most abundant greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2 - addressing two major global challenges simultaneously - plastic pollution and the climate crisis. [...]
The post Chemists Transform Plastic Trash Into Climate Solution first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
NEW YORK, New York, September 9, 2025 (ENS) - International talks on a treaty to govern the high seas beyond national jurisdictions began on a freezing February day in 2006 at UN Headquarters in New York City. Today, as nations gather at UN Headquarters for the 80th anniversary of the UN General Assembly, the High Seas Treaty is a reality. [...]
The post Oceans Beyond Borders: High Seas Treaty Prepares for Kickoff first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
