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Burning is used to clear land for soy cultivation in the Argentine Chaco: the harvested area devoted to soy has increased fourfold in Argentina in the last 25 years

Greenpeace's flagship vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, will arrive in Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila on Monday to help deliver relief to Vanuatu's outlying islands, many of which are still stranded without electricity or basic living essentials.
Thousands of people are still in dire need of emergency shelter and goods, even two months after Cyclone Pam battered the island nation.

Exelon now controls electric delivery service to approximately 1.97 million Maryland ratepayers.

UNESCO Signing of the agreement renewing the status of the Regional Centre for training and water studies in arid and semi-arid regions under the auspices of UNESCO, Egypt, May 2015

Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf is likely to shatter into hundreds of icebergs before the end of the decade, according to a new NASA study.

Greenpeace activists hold a banner that reads: "Without Forests, There's No Water"

Oil industry wastewater injection wells. Illegal injections are contaminating underground water in scores of aquifers across the state, from Monterey to Kern and Los Angeles counties.

Aerial view of clean up after a Genesee & Wyoming train carrying North Dakota crude derailed near Aliceville, AL, in November 2014, exploding and burning for more than 18 hours. An estimated 748,800 gallons of oil spilled, including into surrounding wetlands. Four months later, oil was still oozing into the water.