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This image shows a NASA Blue Marble view of the Arctic on September 17, 2014 when sea ice extent was at 5.02 million square kilometers (1.94 million square miles). The orange line shows the 1981 to 2010 average extent for that day. The black cross indicates the geographic North Pole.

There were once up to 2 million gray wolves living in North America, but the animals were driven to near-extinction in the lower 48 states by the early 1900s.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed standards under the Clean Water Act to help cut discharges of dental amalgam to the environment. Amalgam is a mixture of mercury and other metals that dentists use to fill cavities. Mercury is discharged when dentists remove old fillings or remove excess amalgam when placing a new filling.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement as part of a Federal District court order with the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) that furthers oil spill cleanup, preparedness and response efforts and critical infrastructure improvements at all of CUC’s power plants.

Alaskan tundra is showing the effects of melting permafrost.

Greenpeace International and Greenpeace India welcomed the Indian Supreme Court's landmark decision on the country's coal scam following the Court's cancellation of the licenses of 214 coal blocks. Significantly, this included Essar and Hindalco's Mahan coal block, where the Mahan Sangharsh Samiti and Greenpeace India have been engaged in a long campaign with the company over the proposed open cast coal mine.

Charles HelmAlbright Ridge hiking - Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark (Canada) 2014

During a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ahead of the climate summit, a Greenpeace delegation delivered the organisation’s demands along with 6 million ocean water drops, representing the signatures of Save the Arctic supporters.

Seoul, South Korea. 21 September 2014. One of the hundreds of thousands of marchers around the world that called on governments to take stronger action against climate change.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the San Francisco Department of the Environment honored five companies who successfully completed the Custodial Green Cleaning pilot program, the first Green Business program in the nation focused on protecting custodial worker health by switching from harmful cleaning products to greener products and methods. To date, 300 custodians have been trained under the pilot program and over 12,000 gallons of harmful cleaning chemicals have been eliminated each year.