biodiversity | https://ens-newswire.com We Cover the Earth for You! Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:26:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 https://ens-newswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/favicon.jpg biodiversity | https://ens-newswire.com 32 32 Earth Commission: ‘Sick’ Planet Needs Safe and Just Treatment https://ens-newswire.com/earth-commission-sick-planet-needs-safe-and-just-treatment/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:26:44 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98808 STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 31, 2023 (ENS) – Humans are taking “colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth,” a new Earth Commission study published today [...]

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]]> Global Biodiversity Framework Protects 30% of Planet by 2030 https://ens-newswire.com/global-biodiversity-framework-protects-30-of-planet-by-2030/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:25:13 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98141 MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, December 20, 2022 (ENS) – The first global agreement to protect at least 30 percent of global lands and waters by 2030 was reached Monday by 196 [...]

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]]> Ocean Species Suffer as Nations at COP15 Confront Extinctions https://ens-newswire.com/ocean-species-suffer-as-nations-at-cop15-confront-extinctions/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:48:55 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98109 MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2022 (ENS) – Today’s update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species exposes the many threats wiping out marine species – illegal and unsustainable [...]

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]]> Earth’s Biodiversity Crisis Activates Governments, Police https://ens-newswire.com/earths-biodiversity-crisis-activates-governments-police/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 03:10:06 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98092 LYON, France, December 7, 2022 (ENS) – A wildlife and timber trading law enforcement crackdown by the international police force Interpol and the World Customs Organization has yielded more than [...]

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]]> Plastics Pact, Wildfires Top UN Environment Assembly Agenda https://ens-newswire.com/plastics-pact-wildfires-top-un-environment-assembly-agenda/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:40:26 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96753 NAIROBI, Kenya, February 28, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s foremost environmental decision-making body, the United Nations Environment Assembly, opens its annual meeting today in Nairobi. For the next three days, [...]

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]]> World Wetlands Day: Guarding the ‘Most Threatened Ecosystem’ https://ens-newswire.com/world-wetlands-day-guarding-the-most-threatened-ecosystem/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:24:32 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96333 GENEVA, Switzerland, February 2, 2022 (ENS) – In 2020 wildfires destroyed 30 percent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland extending across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 [...]

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]]> NEVADA: Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Feds Killing Native Wildlife https://ens-newswire.com/nevada-lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-feds-killing-native-wildlife/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:10:55 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=95527 RENO, Nevada, December 13, 2021 (ENS) – Conservation groups WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services in Nevada over [...]

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]]> Humans ‘Hold the Survival of Other Species in Our Hands’ https://ens-newswire.com/humans-hold-the-survival-of-other-species-in-our-hands/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:34:45 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94966 WASHINGTON, DC, October 12, 2021 (ENS) – An agreement to halt human-induced extinctions in 2022 is under consideration as countries gather online this week for the 15th meeting of the [...]

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]]> NEW JERSEY: State Replants Native Atlantic White Cedar Forests https://ens-newswire.com/new-jersey-replants-native-atlantic-white-cedar-forests/ Sun, 26 Sep 2021 16:38:09 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94797 TRENTON, New Jersey, September 26, 2021 (ENS) – New Jersey’s native Atlantic white cedar forests have been harmed by climate change, suffering sea-level rise and storm surge that sent saltwater [...]

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]]> Biden’s Transatlantic Pacts Feature Climate Care, Green Growth https://ens-newswire.com/bidens-transatlantic-pacts-feature-climate-care-green-growth/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:33:04 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93878

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 15, 2021 (ENS) – Environmental concerns, especially about the consequences of climate change, are on the minds of U.S. President Joe Biden and the European leaders he [...]

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]]> UN Head: ‘We Still Have Time’ to Heal the Earth https://ens-newswire.com/un-head-we-still-have-time-to-heal-the-earth/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 20:41:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93768

NEW YORK, New York, June 6, 2021 (ENS) – “We are ravaging the very ecosystems that underpin our societies,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned in his message for World [...]

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]]> Salt Pollution Threatens Human Water Security https://ens-newswire.com/93550/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:48:19 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93550

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – “Inland freshwater salt pollution is rising nationwide and worldwide, and we investigated the potential conflict between managing freshwater salt pollution and the sustainable [...]

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]]> French Companies Integrate Biodiversity Impact Assessment https://ens-newswire.com/french-companies-integrate-biodiversity-impact-assessment/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:18:49 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92687  

PARIS, France, October 27, 2020 (ENS) – A tool that will allow investors to measure how their investments impact biodiversity – the diversity of plants and animals – is [...]

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