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Sixteen people are now confirmed dead from last week's landslide in Washington state that destroyed dozens of homes in a rural community.

A climate crisis that risks peace and security can still be avoided by accelerating the clean energy revolution, Greenpeace said on Tuesday.

Colgate-Palmolive will remove forest destruction from all of its products with full traceability for the palm oil it sources. As a major competitor of Procter and Gamble's, Colgate-Palmolive's announcement further isolates the maker of Head and Shoulders, which has so far failed to adopt an effective No Deforestation policy.

Ice weather in Geneva, Switzerland.

After Restoration, Ansai, Shaanxi, Loess Plateau, China 2009 c John Liu

7 Earth Hour lanterns were released over the City of Cape Town (in front of Table Mountain) symbolizing the 7 continents taking part in this global call to action on climate change.

Authorities in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington said the death toll from a massive landslide has risen to eight with at least another 18 people missing.

Coal protest in Berlin

Resources CouncilFlow test of Tol-4 well at Tolhuaca geothermal prospect in Southern Chile