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Europe’s historic Doñana National Park could be added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger unless immediate action is taken against multiple threats to the wetland, according to a new analysis by WWF.

In 16 September morning in Bratislava 29 Greenpeace activists from Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia demonstrated in support of a fairer and greener Europe, just as the leaders of 27 countries prepared to meet to discuss the future of the EU. Greenpeace called on the leaders to build a Europe based on the founding values at the core of the EU, putting the interests of people and the planet first.

On September 15, President Obama announced the creation of the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean.

On September 16 at the U.S. Department of State's Our Oceans Conference, Conservation International (CI), together with The Walton Family Foundation, the Global Environment Facility, The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund, announced the launch of a trust fund, Blue Abadi, that will support long-term protection of Indonesia's Bird's Head Seascape — home to the single greatest reservoir of marine life on the planet.

With ever-growing pressures risking the long term health of our oceans, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is teaming up with Conservation X Labs to launch Oceans X Labs, a collaboration designed to harness the power of innovation and technology to accelerate conservation of the marine environment.

The Arctic’s ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Arctic sea ice extent on that day stood at 4.14 million square kilometers (1.60 million square miles), statistically tied at second lowest in the satellite record with the 2007 minimum. The 2007 minimum occurred on September 18 of that year, when Arctic sea ice extent stood at 4.15 million square kilometers (1.60 million square miles).

Young kids don't necessarily know they shouldn't approach a scared dog, which could put them in danger of being bitten, a new British study shows.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has reached an agreement with Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corporation (“Total Petroleum”) to settle the company’s alleged violations of requirements to control pollution from stormwater discharges at its Guaynabo Bulk Fuels Terminal, on 13 September.

In the lead up to this week’s ‘Our Ocean’ conference hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington D.C., a new World Bank report released on 13 September, examines how the transition to a ‘blue economy’ for Caribbean countries can not only generate growth, but also help countries gain greater resilience to external shocks by better preserving the ocean.