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Christina Figueres, Executive Director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Children bathe and wash their clothes as the first water treatment plant in Tacloban came back to full operating capacity, restoring water supply in 80 per cent of the city and benefiting around 200,000 people.

The unprecedented rate of ocean acidification is one of the most alarming phenomena generated by climate change and the only way to mitigate the dangers it represents consists in reducing CO2 emissions significantly.

Greenpeace activists from over 20 countries protested on the roof of the Ministry of Economics against the World Coal Summit, hosted by the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and running concurrently with the UN climate negotiations in Warsaw.

Nearly half a million people have been left homeless by Super Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda), which battered the city of Tacloban in the Philippines.

Animal Welfare Institute filed an emergency petition to list the pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Endemic to Panama’s Isla Escudo de Veraguas, the pygmy sloth—the world’s smallest sloth—is critically endangered, with as few as 79 left in the wild.

The Japanese government announced that it aims for a 3.8% greenhouse gas emissions reduction compared to 2005. However, according to the Kyoto baseline in 1990, this is a 3.1% increase. Prime Minister Abe is tricking the world and the Japanese people.

Small hydropower plants in Pingun, Rasht Valley, 19 September 2013.

Tiger in Ranthambore National Park in India

A rock crusher was used to destroy six tons of ivory seized in the US.