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At a meeting of the five Asian Rhino range states - Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal - a common action plan was agreed with the aim of increasing the populations of Asian Rhino species by at least 3% annually by 2020.

Land Clearing in Kalimantan

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold 11 public listening sessions across the country to solicit ideas and input from the public and stakeholders about the best Clean Air Act approaches to reducing carbon pollution from existing power plants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has obtained a federal warrant to do the necessary cleanup work at the Superior Barrel & Drum company facility in Elk Township, New Jersey, where more than a thousand unlabeled or improperly labeled drums and other containers have been left in a state of disrepair. Many of the drums are leaking their contents onto the ground and are exposed to wind and rain.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a project to support the Capturing Coral Reef and Related Ecosystem Services Project, with US$4.5 million in grant funding provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This regional project will design innovative models for valuing mangrove, sea grass and coral reef ecosystems services to inform policy and decision making for improved environmental stewardship of these critical resources.

IPCC delivers gravest risk assessment for Planet Earth, humanity needs to act urgently and effectively on emissions. Photo: NASA

Many residents are still cleaning up from last week’s rains.

Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle met in New York, in the margins of the UN General Assembly, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the five Maghreb countries, members of the Arab Maghreb Union, to discuss developments in the region and ways to strengthen mutual cooperation. It was the first informal political dialogue between countries of the Arab Maghreb Union and the EU and the participants agreed to continue with it in the future and discussed the possibility to hold next ministerial dialogue in Maghreb.

A United Nations panel said it is more certain than ever that humans are a dominant cause of global warming and predicted temperatures would continue to rise this century.

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is seeking to restart a separate nuclear power facility.