Taiwan Opens ‘TRE100’ Green Energy Drive to Small Businesses

NORWICH, England, UK, December 12, 2025 (ENS) – As the planet heats up, a population of polar bears living in southeastern Greenland appear to be adjusting to their warmer environment, [...]

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BOSTON Massachusetts, December 12, 2025 (ENS) - Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and a coalition of 20 states Thursday won their lawsuit against the Trump administration over its unlawful attempt to shut down an existing federal program that protects communities from natural disasters before they strike. [...]

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BELEM, Brazil, December 10, 2025 (ENS) - This year's annual United Nations' 2025 Climate Change Conference, COP 30, convened exactly one month ago in the Brazilian city of Belém as political tensions around the world hit new levels, and planetary temperatures spiked. The year 2024 was the warmest on record at 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels. [...]

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, December 11, 2025 (ENS) - Sub-Saharan Africa has lost 24 percent of its biodiversity since pre-industrial times, and large mammals have declined the most, finds new research from the 108-year-old School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, APES, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, a multi-campus public research university known as Wits University or simply, Wits. [...]

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