Environment

Iconic Okavango Delta becomes 1,000th World Heritage site

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The Okavango Delta

Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Authority To Limit Carbon Pollution

Decision narrows one EPA program, but leaves undisturbed other Clean Air Act authorities to limit carbon pollution

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Of crucial importance, the Court left undisturbed key Clean Air Act provisions authorizing EPA to issue "performance standards" limiting carbon pollution from sources such as power plants, refineries and cement kilns.

Groups Challenge Port of Long Beach's Plan To Export Toxic Coal

Port approves 2 agreements to lock in coal and petcoke exports for the next 15 years

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A rail line runs past shipping containers at the Port of Long Beach.

Illegal trade puts more World Heritage sites in danger

Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve has been listed as World Heritage in Danger due to unprecedented levels of illegal wildlife trade, as announced at the 38th annual World Heritage Committee meeting in Doha, Qatar.

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Hippos in the Rufiji River in the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

Six new sites inscribed on World Heritage List

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GEUSStevns Klint (Denmark)

EPA and New York State Announce Ban on Dumping Sewage from Boats into Lake Erie

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation declared the New York side of the Lake Erie shore line a “no discharge zone,” which means that boats are completely banned from discharging sewage into the water.

Santa Maria: Haïti requests UNESCO to send experts to examine shipwreck off its coast

UNESCO will provide the technical assistance requested by the government of Haiti and send a mission to the site of the wreck, which may be that of the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to America.

In a letter dated 12 June, Haitian Culture Minister Monique Rocourt asked for the support of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Body of UNESCO’s 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, requesting that a mission of experts be sent to the site.

Four new cultural sites inscribed on World Heritage List

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The Grand Canal (China)

World Heritage List reaches 1000 sites with inscription of Okavango Delta in Botswana

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Fontana Fredda winegrowing estate: “Rotonda Mirafiore” - The Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (Italy)

Myanmar’s first site inscribed on World Heritage List

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National museum & LibraryRitual structure with staircase (Beikthano) - Pyu Ancient Cities (Myanmar)