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According to news reports, President Trump tomorrow plans to issue a sweeping executive order that will undermine federal actions to combat climate change and efforts to protect communities and our environment.

The Brazilian government has fined JBS, the largest meat producer in the world, for more than 24 million Reals – over $7 million US dollars – for buying cattle from illegally deforested areas in the Amazon. Consequently, Greenpeace Brazil has decided to immediately suspend existing negotiations with the company based on the Cattle Agreement signed in 2009, which required meatpackers to scrutinize sourcing and monitor farms for social, environmental and labour practices.

On Saturday the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Columbia voided the National Marine Fisheries Service’s listing decision of the blueback herring, and ordered new analysis from the Service in reconsidering its finding that the herring was not at risk of extinction.

What if we were to consider the vast quantities of domestic, agricultural and industrial wastewater discharged into the environment everyday as a valuable resource rather than costly problem? This is the paradigm shift advocated in the United Nations World Water Development Report, Wastewater: the Untapped Resource , on March 22, launched today in Durban on the occasion of World Water Day.

A wastewater treatment facility in Manila, the Philippines.

Arctic sea ice reached 14.42 million square kilometers (5.57 million square miles) on 7 March 2017.

A view of icebergs in Ilulissat Icefjord Greenland, where the melting of ice sheets is accelerating.

On March 16, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has provided over $90,000 in additional reimbursements to five entities in Colorado and Utah for their costs incurred responding to the August 5, 2015, Gold King Mine release.