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A train with DOT-111 tanker cars.

A coal-fired power plant on the Ohio River, west of Cincinnati. Since early 2012, approximately 8 million comments have been submitted by people across the country, supporting clean energy and carbon pollution limits for power plants.

Red-eyed tree frog, Costa Rica

Seven Greenpeace activists projected the message "Act for the climate! Go solar!" onto the hill of Wayna Picchu to mark the beginning of the end of coal- and oil-driven economies. As the UN climate summit gets underway in Lima, Greenpeace is asking decision-makers attending the 20th session of Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to adopt a new course and lead us to 100% renewable energy for all by 2050.

A team of senior international nuclear and radiation safety experts concluded a 12-day International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission to review the French regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety.

An international team of nuclear safety experts led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) completed an assessment of long-term operational safety at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant in the Czech Republic.

An IAEA-led international team of nuclear safety experts noted a series of good practices and made recommendations to reinforce some safety measures during a review of operational safety at the Russian Federation’s Kola 3 and 4 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) that concluded.

As Governments prepare to meet for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, starting on Monday, a top UN official has highlighted the session as an opportunity to raise immediate awareness on climate change and lay the foundation for a new universal agreement to be adopted in 2015.

A farmer harvests her rice crop by hand in Timor-Leste.