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Adult Antarctic Krill

Greenpeace has Tuesday made a visit of solidarity to Dolores in Eastern Samar where Typhoon Hagupit made landfall in the Philippines before weaving a destructive path across the country and displacing more than a million people.

Two companies operating under the control of Cascades USA, Inc. have agreed to settle EPA allegations that they violated the federal Clean Water Act. The companies are Cascades Auburn Fiber, operating in Auburn, Maine; and Norampac New England, Inc., operating in Thompson, Conn.

Over 2,000 miles of stream and more that 500 mountains have been destroyed by mountaintop removal.

NANA Oilfield Services, Inc. violated federal oil spill prevention and response rules at its Deadhorse, Alaska, fuel storage and distribution facility, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A crude oil train near the Richmond, CA, railyard.

The message is directed at world leaders and ministers at the ongoing UN climate talks, in Lima, who are failing to take real climate action, while countries like the Philippines, which is again being battered by a massive typhoon, are paying the price of their inaction.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) flanked by the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Raymond Benjamin (right) and the Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel speaks at the opening of the extraordinary session of the ICAO Council.

The melting of ice sheets in Illulissat, Greenland, is accelerating.

At the end of a late-night round of negotiations, national governments agreed on a new EU law to provide countries the right to ban GM crops in their territory. However, the agreed text delivers less than it promises, as it prevents countries to use evidence of environmental harm to justify national bans of GM crops.