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U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell issued a formal declaration that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and its prohibition on international commercial trade in whale products.

A mother and her children in Hartman Park, located in Houston's Manchester neighborhood. The Valero refinery is in the background. The park is bordered by residential homes.

The government of India and the World Bank signed a $500 million credit agreement to improve piped water supply and sanitation services through decentralized delivery systems in the states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.

MEPs called on Wednesday for a 40% cut in CO2 emissions, a 30% target for renewable energy and a 40% target for energy efficiency by 2030, under the EU's new long-term climate-change policy. These targets should be binding, they say. MEPs also criticise the European Commission's recent proposals as short-sighted and unambitious.

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Mountain gorilla, Virunga National Park, World Heritage site

A Japan-funded FAO project in Uganda has supplied farmers with improved rice varieties

A landmark moratorium on Brazilian soya that was set to end has been, after long negotiations, renewed for one last year. The initiative prevents major traders selling soya that may be linked to deforestation in the Amazon, which has recently been increasing.