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Growing urbanization puts an increasing strain on the planet. Tokyo, Japan.

Japan has drastically scaled back its greenhouse gas emissions target after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced the country to return to fossil fuel-burning energy sources.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos (left) meeting with survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) in the battered Philippine city of Tacloban.

UNICEF is appealing for US$34 million to aid the four million children of the Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan when it ripped through the archipelago six days ago.

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Palm oil, present in many products, is linked with extensive deforestation, social displacement and greenhouse emissions. companies using palm oil can do much more to provoke sustainable production, WWF's latest Palm Oil Buyers Scorecard shows.

The Pentagon is sending an aircraft carrier as part of the U.S. drive to accelerate aid efforts in the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines, where 10,000 people are feared dead and many more displaced.

Some endangered animal species are killed by poachers who sell their body parts for lucrative profits. In response, South African environmentalists are using an innovative measure in an effort to save the rhinoceros.

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Christiana Figueres addresses the opening of the 19th session in Warsaw, Poland.

One of the fiercest typhoons ever recorded has devastated the central Philippines, leaving entire cities and towns in ruins and as many as 10,000 people dead. After gashing six provinces, Typhoon Haiyan veered to the northwest into the South China Sea, and weakened to a tropical storm near the border of Vietnam and southern China.