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Activists take to the lower Snake River to demand the removal of four dams that are causing wild salmon and steelhead populations to crash.

On September 6, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court sided with citizens and conservation groups in their fight to protect the State’s coral reefs from the aquarium industry’s unlimited collection and sale of reef fish and other wildlife.

Millions of children in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are currently exposed to the devastating impact of what’s been dubbed the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade.

On September 7, the Trump administration issued its final environmental review, proposing to approve Arch Coal’s application to expand West Elk’s coal mine leases into 1,700 acres of roadless wildlands in the Gunnison National Forest, about 40 miles southwest of Aspen. The plan would green-light exploratory drilling and miles of road construction in order to mine 17 million tons of coal within pristine roadless forest that is habitat to black bear, elk, beaver and lynx.

As Hurricane Irma continues its potentially catastrophic path through the Caribbean and sets its sights on the United States, Save the Children is preparing to respond to help children and families most affected by the storm.

The eye of Hurricane Irma was passing just north of Puerto Rico Wednesday night, knocking out power and running water to hundreds of thousands of people.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Maryland Department of the Environment announced that a revised amended consent decree to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) in the City of Baltimore was filed in federal court in Baltimore, on September 6.

As floodwaters begin to retreat in many of the worst-affected parts of South Asia, farmers are counting the massive cost of the flooding disaster, which has destroyed more than 5.9 million acres of cropland across India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

In response to Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has approved an emergency fuel waiver request from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

The Caribbean and southern Florida are in the path of what forecasters are calling a "potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane."