Environment

World Bank refuses to review its support for logging in tropical rainforests

The World Bank Board of Directors has blocked a call by independent evaluators to review the outcomes of the Bank’s support for industrial-scale logging in tropical rainforests. The evaluators concluded in a report published last Friday that such...

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Weakened Environmental Plan for Lake Tahoe Challenged in U.S. Court

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Lake Tahoe is one of the largest and deepest mountain lakes in the United States, and TRPA’s fundamental...

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Food security and nutrition should top development agenda after 2015 – UN officials

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Committee on Food Security signage on display.

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Almost one in five reptiles are struggling to survive

Nineteen percent of the world’s reptiles are estimated to be threatened with extinction, states a paper published today by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in conjunction with experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).

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