Dogs Trained to Sniff Out Coronavirus Could Start in July

Published by the Environmental News Service PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 6, 2020 (ENS) – Scent detection dogs are being trained to discriminate between samples from COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative patients under a new research initiative at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, usually called Penn Vet. Preliminary screening of live humans by trained […]

Montana Court Vacates 278 BLM Oil and Gas Leases

Published by the Environmental News Service GREAT FALLS, Montana, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – Montana landowners, farmers, and conservation groups have won a victory in their effort to protect local groundwater and the climate. A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Land Management, BLM, failed to consider risks to Montana’s environment and water […]

Global Vaccine Telethon Raises $8 Billion Without USA

Published by the Environmental News Service BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – To battle the deadly coronavirus, six countries, the European Commission and the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation Monday pledged billions in new funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The money will support universal access to a future COVID-19 vaccine and also will […]

New York State Recruits Army of Virus Contact Tracers

Published by the Environmental News Service ALBANY, New York, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – Amid the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic that has hit New York harder than any other state, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that New York’s contact tracing pilot program, with leadership from former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, will begin […]

Pandemic Shock to Energy Industry Greatest in 70 Years

Published by the Environmental News Service PARIS, France, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – The global COVID-19 pandemic has massively disrupted the global economy, forcing large parts of the world into confinement and “creating the largest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in an unprecedented […]

First Invasive ‘Murder Hornets’ Found in United States

Published by the Environmental News Service OLYMPIA, Washington, May 4, 2020 (ENS) – “Murder hornets,” known officially as Asian giant hornets, Vespa mandarinia, have made their first appearance in the United States. These giant stinging insects, the world’s largest species of hornet, are an invasive species and a known predator of honeybees. They were found […]

Virus Warriors Get Lab Supplies, 3D Printers, Food, Shoes

Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2020 (ENS) – With the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide reaching 3,090,445 today and deaths amounting to 217,769 and rising, the world is still caught in the grip of this deadly virus that emerged in Wuhan, China late last December. Today, many organizations – […]

Palm Oil Industry Funds Radar to Detect Deforestation

Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 27, 2020 (ENS) – Ten of the world’s largest palm oil producers and buyers are collaborating to support and fund the development of a new, publicly-available, radar-based forest monitoring system known as Radar Alerts for Detecting Deforestation, RADD. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2020/04/27/palm-oil-industry-funds-radar-to-detect-deforestation/

Global Collaboration Accelerates New COVID-19 Weapons

Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, April 24, 2020 (ENS) – The World Health Organization, heads of government, health officials, philanthropists, and the private sector partnered Friday in a collaboration to speed the development and production of vaccines and treatments to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic and to make certain that they are distributed […]

Rare UV-C Light Rays Remove Coronavirus From Surfaces

Published by the Environmental News Service SANTA BARBARA, California, April 23, 2020 (ENS) – As the world races to find vaccines, therapies and cures for the deadly respiratory disease COVID-19, the deep ultraviolet color of rare UV-C light rays may soon be seen cleaning surfaces, as well as air and water, contaminated with the novel […]

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fires Spreading Radioactivity

Published by the Environmental News Service KYIV, Ukraine, April 18, 2020 (ENS) – A huge forest fire in Ukraine that blazed for more than 10 days came within one kilometer (.6 miles) of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant and poses a continuing radiation risk, Greenpeace Russia warned on Monday, citing satellite images. Read the […]

Earth Day 2020 Features Global Online Climate Event

Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 17, 2020 (ENS) – The biggest climate conference of the year will be the Earth Day Week No Fly Conference – just one of the 50th anniversary events marking Earth Day 2020. During this public, free, online event, 100 key experts will meet virtually to share […]

UK Prime Minister Released from Intensive Care

Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, April 9, 2020 (ENS) – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been released from the intensive care unit at St. Thomas hospital in London where he has spent the past three days being treated for a case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that […]

Low-level Radioactive Waste Could Go to Local Landfills

Published by the Environmental News Service ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 8, 2020 (ENS) – As the nation is focused on coping with the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, is quietly moving to permanently deregulate massive amounts of low-level radioactive waste, but not spent nuclear fuel. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2020/04/08/low-level-radioactive-waste-could-go-to-local-landfills/

Trump Erodes Eco-Protections as Americans Die of Virus

Published by the Environmental News Service DENVER, Colorado, April 7, 2020 (ENS) – As America fought the new coronavirus over the past 30 days, President Donald Trump’s Interior Department rushed through dozens of attacks on the environment, finds a new analysis by the nonprofit Center for Western Priorities. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2020/04/07/trump-erodes-eco-protections-as-americans-die-of-virus/

UK Prime Minister in Intensive Care With Coronavirus

Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, April 6, 2020 (ENS) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to an intensive care unit in a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms “worsened,” the Prime Minister’s office said in an official statement today. A spokesman said he was moved on the advice of his medical […]

Trump Kills Obama’s Clean Car Standards

Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 3, 2020 (ENS) – The Republican administration of President Donald Trump has not let the deadly coronavirus crisis stop it from getting rid of Obama-era federal fuel efficiency standards and replacing them with a less ambitious plan. The Trump plan is estimated to increase carbon emissions […]

Race for a Virus Shield: 50 Vaccines in Development

Published by the Environmental News Service WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2020 (ENS) – Vaccine researchers around the world are laser-focused on developing a vaccine to defeat COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China in December. With dozens of vaccine projects in the works, a panel of experts met […]

Tips for Virus-Free Payment Transactions

Published by the Environmental News Service PRINCETON JUNCTION, New Jersey, March 31, 2020 (ENS) – The highly contagious, deadly novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, is spreading around the world in a global pandemic, raising everyone’s awareness of the need to avoid contact with frequently touched public surfaces. Still, people must buy things – […]

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