At Risk | https://ens-newswire.com We Cover the Earth for You! Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:28:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 https://ens-newswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/favicon.jpg At Risk | https://ens-newswire.com 32 32 Dam Collapse Puts Europe’s Largest Nuclear Plant in Jeopardy https://ens-newswire.com/dam-collapse-puts-europes-largest-nuclear-plant-in-jeopardy/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:28:11 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98852 KYIV, Ukraine, June 13, 2023 (ENS) – Experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency are seeking access to a location near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, ZNPP, to clarify the [...]

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]]> Ukrainian, U.S. Prosecutors Go After Environmental War Crimes https://ens-newswire.com/ukrainian-u-s-prosecutors-go-after-environmental-war-crimes/ Sat, 20 May 2023 02:15:05 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98747 WASHINGTON, DC, May 19, 2023 (ENS) – Eight guests from the Ukraine Prosecutor General’s Office are in Washington this week for a series of training and study sessions at the [...]

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]]> Zelensky Relies on IAEA Support; Russia Moves Nuclear Weapons https://ens-newswire.com/zelensky-relies-on-iaea-support-russia-moves-nuclear-weapons/ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 03:39:04 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98584 VIENNA, Austria, March 27, 2023 (ENS) – International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday to plan protection for the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear [...]

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]]> Cyclone Freddy Floods Three African Countries, Kills 579 https://ens-newswire.com/cyclone-freddy-floods-three-african-countries-kills-579/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:13:24 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98511 BLANTYRE, Malawi, March 21, 2023 (ENS) – Tropical Cyclone Freddy is a record-breaking storm that has astonished meteorologists with its longevity. As part of its final act, the cyclone unleashed [...]

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]]> Atmospheric River Nears California, Escalates Storm Emergency https://ens-newswire.com/atmospheric-river-nears-california-escalates-storm-emergency/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:20:01 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98446 SACRAMENTO, California, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Knowing that a series of storms are forecast to continue blowing across California through mid-March, and an atmospheric river event is predicted for [...]

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]]> Earthquakes Kill 29,000+, Smash Buildings in Turkiye and Syria https://ens-newswire.com/earthquakes-kill-2300-smash-buildings-in-turkey-and-syria/ Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:26:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98331 ANKARA, Turkiye, February 12, 2023 (ENS) – At least 29,600 people have died and thousands more were injured in 10 provinces after two major earthquakes shook southern Turkiye and surrounding [...]

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]]> Cyclone Bomb, Atmospheric River Soak California, Kill Two https://ens-newswire.com/cyclone-bomb-atmospheric-river-soak-california-kill-two/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:35:05 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98177 SACRAMENTO, California, January 7, 2023 (ENS) – What the National Weather Service calls an “incessant parade of storms” continues to batter California with heavy rain, damaging winds, and heavy snow. [...]

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]]> Ukraine Faces Power, Water, Food Shortages as Winter Looms https://ens-newswire.com/ukraine-faces-power-water-food-shortages-as-winter-looms/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:17:29 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97935 KYIV, Ukraine, November 3, 2022 (ENS) – Continuing attacks by Russian forces against Ukraine’s essential civilian infrastructure are disrupting access to key services. Power and water supply systems have sustained [...]

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]]> Monstrous Hurricane Ian Smashes into Florida as a Category 4 https://ens-newswire.com/monstrous-hurricane-ian-smashes-into-florida-as-a-category-4/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 03:32:27 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97780 MIAMI, Florida, September 28, 2022 (ENS) – Blowing 155 miles per hour, Hurricane Ian made landfall this afternoon near the Florida barrier island of Cayo Costo off the southwest panhandle [...]

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]]> UN: World in ‘Permanent State’ of Humanitarian Emergency https://ens-newswire.com/un-world-in-permanent-state-of-humanitarian-emergency/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:06:42 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97767 NEW YORK, New York, September 20, 2022 (ENS) – Calling it “the most consequential moment of the last four decades,” Csaba Kőrösi of Hungary, the new president of the United [...]

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]]> Antarctic Glacier Collapse Could Surge Global Sea Levels https://ens-newswire.com/antarctic-glacier-collapse-could-surge-global-sea-levels/ Fri, 09 Sep 2022 03:08:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97722 ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, September 8, 2022 (ENS) – The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, a vast glacier about the size of Florida, is already in a phase of fast retreat [...]

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]]> UN Nuclear Agency Demands Safety Zone at Russian-Held Plant https://ens-newswire.com/un-nuclear-agency-demands-safety-zone-at-russian-held-plant/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:14:08 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97709 VIENNA, Austria, September 7, 2022 (ENS) – The establishment of a Nuclear Safety and Security Protection Zone at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, in Ukraine is urgently needed to [...]

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]]> Flooded Pakistan Counts 1,100 Dead, Seeks $160M Relief Cash https://ens-newswire.com/flooded-pakistan-counts-1100-dead-seeks-160m-relief-cash/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 02:30:22 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97679 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, August 30, 2022 (ENS) – More than 1,100 people, including 350 children, have lost their lives since June as the worst monsoon rains in decades, severe floods and [...]

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]]> UN Petitioned to Save Pantanal Wetland Wildlife From Fires https://ens-newswire.com/un-petitioned-to-save-pantanal-wetland-wildlife-from-fires/ Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:29:10 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97640 PARIS, France, August 21, 2022 (ENS) – As this year’s fire season intensifies, wildfires in Brazil are jeopardizing the world’s largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal, and its rare and imperiled [...]

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]]> Europe Sizzles and Burns in Record Heat https://ens-newswire.com/europe-sizzles-and-burns-in-record-heat/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:34:19 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97547 GENEVA, Switzerland, August 9, 2022 (ENS) – Authorities are scrambling water-bomber planes and hundreds of exhausted firefighters are gearing up again to battle the wildfires racing through Europe this summer. [...]

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]]> Siberian Wildfires Doubly Dangerous to Distracted Russia https://ens-newswire.com/siberian-wildfires-doubly-dangerous-to-distracted-russia/ Sat, 21 May 2022 00:20:41 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97267 By Benjamin Seidman

KRASNOYARSK, Russia, May 20, 2022 (ENS) – Early season wildfires in Siberia this spring threaten yet another record-breaking fire season in Russia, while the Russian government continues [...]

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]]> Africa Starves Under The Blazing Sun https://ens-newswire.com/africa-starves-under-the-blazing-sun/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 22:21:31 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97127 DUBLIN, Ireland, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – Trucking water into communities who are somehow surviving the drought gripping the East African country of Somalia, has got Ireland’s largest aid organization [...]

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]]> Communication Lost With Russian-Held Chernobyl Nuclear Site https://ens-newswire.com/communication-lost-with-russian-held-chernobyl-nuclear-site/ Sat, 12 Mar 2022 01:44:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96930 VIENNA, Austria, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – Ukraine’s nuclear regulator lost all communications with the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the disaster site where radioactive spent fuel is stored, on Monday, [...]

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]]> Russia-Ukraine War Creates a Million Refugees, EU Admits Them https://ens-newswire.com/russia-ukraine-war-creates-a-million-refugees-eu-admits-them/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 06:22:27 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96840 GENEVA, Switzerland, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – On a press call to Geneva from Ukraine, Poland and Moldova on Friday, United Nations officials confirmed the vast numbers of Ukrainians who [...]

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]]> Russians Break Safety Rules at Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant https://ens-newswire.com/russians-break-safety-rules-at-ukrainian-nuclear-power-plant/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 02:58:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96853 VIENNA, Austria, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency today that although regular staff continues to operate the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, the plant management [...]

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