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The urban communities in the departments of Asuncion and Alto Paraguay suffered extensive flooding.

Sockeye salmon make their way back up a river in the Pacific Northwest to spawn.

Haze spreads over the Central Valley on January 17, 2014. Air quality levels ranged from unhealthy to very unhealthy throughout the day.

The species is at direct risk from climate change because wolverines depend on areas that maintain deep snow through late spring.

The devastating coal ash spill at Kingston, TN in 2008.

A government program to promote safer cooking practices aims to prevent 165,000 premature deaths every year, says a new World Bank report.

The Cities Clean Air Partnership, the first major clean air certification and partnership program to encourage air quality protection in cities across the Asia-Pacific region, was launched by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration, Clean Air Asia, and the Bay Area and South Coast Air Districts.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Hunt Building has agreed to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations at two military housing construction sites at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The company will pay a civil penalty of $310,000.

Residents of Rochelle, Georgia, who have had to live with untreated sewage overflows.

The Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise sailed back into Dutch territorial waters after over 300 days in Russian custody. The ship had been held illegally since taking part in a peaceful direct action against state owned oil company Gazprom, as it tried to drill the world’s first oil well in icy Arctic waters.