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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Montgomery County have entered into a voluntary agreement to address asbestos contamination at the former Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. plant in the Village of Canajoharie, New York, on November 16.

As the Fijian COP Presidency prepares to launch the Ocean Pathway Partnership, WWF experts, including from Fiji, will discuss what the initiative could mean for oceans and climate action and the impact it can have on communities and marine life.

WWF points out that the over-exploitation of fossil fuels - such as coal, gas and oil - is putting the whole of humanity under threat from climate change.

Ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s appearance at the UN climate talks, 14 Greenpeace Germany activists protested on a coal freighter on the Rhine River calling for a coal phase-out in Germany.

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the UN Climate Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany.

On November 14, a climate complaint against ING filed by Greenpeace Netherlands, Oxfam, BankTrack and Milieudefensie for violating OECD guidelines, was accepted by a Dutch representative of the OECD. The Dutch bank will be investigated by the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP) for having no plan to report on and reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from its financing.

Iran is observing an official day of mourning Tuesday for the victims of Sunday's powerful earthquake along the mountainous border with Iraq.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) on November 14 released its annual World Energy Outlook 2017 - a set of scenarios for global energy consumption and production which has a long history of dramatically underestimating renewable energy development.

Solar panel used for lighting village homes in Sri Lanka.

An earthquake that struck Sunday along the Iraq-Iran border has killed more than 300 people and injured 2,500 others.