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Fishing on Ang Soui Lake, Xe Champhone Wetland

Lake Turkana, World Heritage site, Kenya

Logging companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo are plundering forests, using physical intimidation against local communities and failing to meet their obligations to improve local infrastructure, according to villagers' testimonies gathered by Greenpeace Africa.

The United States and India have announced an agreement to resolve a dispute about food subsidies that has held up the ratification of a global trade pact.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined Blue Mountain Air $51,000 for failing to comply with the federal Lead-Based Paint Renovation, Repair, and Painting rule when the Vacaville, Calif.-based company renovated foreclosed homes. Specifically, the company failed to obtain an EPA certification, use certified renovators, and comply with other work practice requirements for handling lead-based paint safely.

Despite projected growth of renewables, clean energy will not come close to comprising at least the majority of all fuels in the next decades.

The Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal is awarded annually by WWF for outstanding service to the environment.

The United States and China have announced ambitious new plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as their top leaders meet in Beijing on Wednesday.

Some of the world’s leading experts on Climate Change have joined the country’s decision makers and opinion leaders gathered in Tanzania’s business capital to participate in a major two-day conference to deliberate on climate resilient economic growth.

Estimated drop in economic output from climate change by 2060