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Two parliamentary committees from Albania and Montenegro met on 5 December 2014 in the Albanian town of Shkodra to discuss cross-border environmental issues. The event was organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in partnership with the parliaments of the two countries, with the aim of promoting bilateral co-operation and strengthening the legislative process on environmental issues.

Giovanni La Via

Typhoon Hagupit has made landfall in the Philippines, hitting the coast with intense rain and wind gusts of 210 kilometers per hour.

The Frack Free Denton booth at University of North Texas in Denton on Earth Day in 2014.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines are evacuating coastal villages and landslide-prone areas ahead of a powerful typhoon, even as the country continues to recover from a deadly super typhoon that struck about a year ago.

Arctic graylings. The fish continues to face many threats and survives in very small numbers in just 4 percent of its historic range.

New legislation to allow EU member states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on their own territory, even if it is allowed at EU level, were agreed by Parliament and Council delegations on Wednesday night.

Buffalo River in Arkansas was the country's first national river.

The report, 'Revealed: Coal Mines Polluting South Kalimantan’s Water', details the findings of a nine-month Greenpeace investigation. It shows that hazardous waste from intensive, largely unregulated coal mining activities is contaminating the province’s streams and rivers, in many cases breaching national standards for mine wastewater.