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ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 8, 2025 (ENS) - A new low-cost sensor that detects airborne H5N1 avian flu in under five minutes sounds mighty good as bird flu continues to spread, infecting 70 people in the United States in the past 11 months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has confirmed. One person has died. [...]
The post Innovative Biosensor, Vaccine Help Farmers Cope With Bird Flu first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
EXETER, England, October 13, 2025 (ENS) - "The world has entered a new reality. Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°Celsius." Warm-water coral reefs are dying across the planet as the world hits its first climate tipping point, finds a new report released today by the University of Exeter and dozens of international partners. [...]
The post 1st Climate Tipping Point Plunges Planet Into ‘New Reality’ first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2025 (ENS) - On July 8, Congressman Nick Begich III, an Alaska Republican, introduced a draft bill amending the Marine Mammal Protection Act, MMPA, the federal law that has governed marine resource management and conservation of whales, orcas, porpoises, seals, polar bears, walruses, sea otters, and manatees in U.S. waters since 1972. [...]
The post Republicans Seek to Weaken U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
ROSELAND, Louisiana, October 9, 2025 (ENS) - On August 22, an explosion erupted at Smitty's Supply, a lubricant manufacturing facility in Roseland, a town about 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge. The blaze swept through the 15-acre complex that housed half a million gallons of flammable materials. [...]
The post LOUISIANA: Oil, Soot From Smitty’s Fire Persists, EPA Blamed first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
SALEM, Oregon, October 10, 2025 (ENS) - Oregon Governor Tina Kotek this week signed an Executive Order accelerating renewable wind and solar project development in the state before time runs out on federal clean energy tax credits. Tax credits now on the table that are set to expire on July 4, 2026 can fund between 30 and 50 percent of most solar and wind projects, the governor said. [...]
The post OREGON: Gov Cuts Red Tape to Secure Clean Energy Tax Credits first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
WOOD-RIDGE, New Jersey, October 8, 2025 (ENS) - Decades of contamination with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl, known as PCB, are now on track to be cleaned up at the Berry's Creek Study Area adjacent to Wood-Ridge in the Meadowlands of northeastern New Jersey, just 13 miles from New York City. [...]
The post NEW JERSEY: Meadowlands Creek Mercury Cleanup Plan Approved first appeared on Environment News Service (ENS).
