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The Philippines has begun a forced evacuation of residents near the country's most active volcano, which officials warn is glowing red and could soon erupt.

overnments are set to debate the legitimacy of Japan's whale hunts.

Iceland has set itself a quota to hunt 770 endangered fin whales.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Kemps, LLC has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $57,000 to resolve Clean Air Act violations associated with the company’s failure to submit a risk management plan at its facility at 200 20th street in Fargo, North Dakota.

The World Bank Group together with several partners announced the design of the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation (PAF), an innovative pay-for-performance instrument that will use auctions to maximize the use of limited public resources for climate change mitigation while leveraging private sector financing.

Longyearbyen, 11 September 2014 - As the Arctic sea ice reaches its lowest extent of the year, Filipino climate commissioner Yeb Saño is at the ice edge with Greenpeace to demand that world leaders take action on climate change at the upcoming summit in New York.

The crude-by-rail explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Canada in 2013 killed 47 people.

The Mexican gray wolf is the most genetically distinct lineage of wolves in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most endangered mammals in North America.

Though banned in the home because of dangers to children, chlorpyrifos is still heavily used on fruit and nut orchards, soybeans, and corn.