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Greenpeace Brazil has captured new photos of fires devastating the Amazon during a flyover carried out between 16 to 21 August 2020. The images show widespread destruction across the rainforest, including in protected areas, despite the Brazilian government’s order to ban fires in the region since July 16.

Rescue teams in Lebanon continued their search on Saturday for a possible survivor under the rubble of a building that collapsed in the deadly blast last month at the Port of Beirut.

Heavy seasonal rains have caused flash floods and rivers to burst their banks, including the Nile in the capital Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman, and affected thousands of internally displaced people, refugees and host communities in Sudan.

A total of six million Euros in emergency relief funding to address biodiversity conservation needs brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic is being made available by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the European Commission, and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). These European Union funds will be distributed through two complementary programmes managed by IUCN. They aim to alleviate the impacts of the pandemic on the management of protected areas and on threatened species.

Swimmers and surfboard riders at Manly Beach in Sydney, Australia got a little too close for comfort Sunday when they were splashed by a mother whale as she swam with her calf.

Lead poisoning is affecting children on a massive and previously unknown scale, according to a new report launched by UNICEF and Pure Earth, on July 30.

The Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Rainbow Warrior depart Hamburg, to start a month-long documentation and peaceful protest tour in the North Sea, on July 30. Teams on board will gather evidence of the extreme industrialisation of the region by the oil and gas industry, which has been polluting the ocean and fueling the climate crisis with a “business as usual” attitude for several decades.

Italian Firefighters, civil protection volunteers, and Alpine troops are working around the clock in trying to put out the fires that have engulfed the hundreds of hectares of woodland around the city of L'Aquila in the eastern region of Abruzzo.

The fires were still burning for the third day Sunday, after the area was set ablaze by an act of arson.

L'Aquila's Mayor posted a statement on his Facebook page, saying that four Canadair aircraft, three helicopters and more than 150 people were participating in an operation to put the flames under control.

As energy from renewable sources is increasingly part of the European energy mix, MEPs propose ways to step up storage solutions such as hydrogen or home batteries.

Trucks haul shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation's busiest port. Their emissions create diesel death zones along freight lines and freeways throughout the state. Trucks produce the pollution for 40% of California’s unhealthy smog problem.