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A team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts completed a mission to review national nuclear security practices on December 12 in Armenia.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to protect the public from seven ethylene glycol ethers or glymes chemicals that can cause health effects including birth defects and blood toxicity.

Would you rather have $250 million invested in this 60 year-old coal plant or new, clean energy?

A frozen meltwater lake is seen along the northeast Greenland coast from aboard the NASA P-3B aircraft on May 7, 2012.

A massive, over 7-metre-high balloon, representing one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2).

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of its final Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) health assessment Monday for Libby Amphibole Asbestos (LAA). This assessment analyzes the potential cancer and non-cancer human health effects from inhalation exposure to LAA, and includes the final Toxicological Review of LAA. In addition, using the toxicity values as well as exposure data collected in Libby and Troy, Montana, EPA has developed a draft site-wide Human Health Risk Assessment for the Libby, Montana Superfund site, which quantifies the risks of exposure to LAA for residents and workers.

Ministers are in Lima this week to negotiate a text to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which should then be finalised at a conference in Paris in 2015. The Parliament has sent a delegation of 12 MEPs to support representatives from the European Commission and the Council during the negotiations. Check out our infographic to find out more about how greenhouse gases affect climate change.

Secretary-General ban Ki-moon addresses the UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru.

A car sits in dried and cracked earth of what was the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir in early 2014 in San Jose, CA.