The United Nations biodiversity summit, COP16, opened in Colombia on October 20. Negotiating countries are seeking to safeguard Earth's variety of life forms.

LANSING, Michigan, September 26, 2024 (ENS) – General Motors has announced a 15-year s energy purchase agreement for three vehicle assembly plants. The Michigan-based automaker signed the solar ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 31, 2025 (ENS) – The tsunami advisory for Hawaii has been lifted after a massive earthquake just off Russia’s Far East Pacific coast put the entire region on high alert.

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 ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 8, 2025 (ENS) – The European Union will end its use of Russian energy by stopping the import of Russian gas and oil and phasing out Russian nuclear energy, while ensuring stable ...

WASHINGTON, DC, June 1, 2025 (ENS) – President Donald Trump is expected to sign two Congressional resolutions that will revoke the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency waivers from federal standards ...

VALENZUELA CITY, Philippines, July 7, 2023 (ENS) – The days when law enforcement agencies and courts turned a blind eye to wildlife trafficking are now history. A court in the Philippines has sent an ...

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, June 1, 2025 (ENS) – On the first day of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, above-average Atlantic Ocean temperatures have set the stage, and now forecasters at NOAA’s ...

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 ...

BERLIN, Germany, February 16, 2025 (ENS) – With new funding, Germany’s Environment Ministry, the nonprofit WWF Germany, and the international police force Interpol are joining forces to stop criminals ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC, February 10, 2025 (ENS) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has created a Crypto Task Force with a page on its website detailing the agency’s new crypto regulatory ...