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The OSCE Mission to Moldova facilitates the removal of sources of ionized radiation from Transdniestria, April 2013.

North Korea is struggling to cope with a worsening flood crisis that has killed at least 13 people and damaged thousands of homes in the past week.

A former San Francisco investment banker and his college friend were sentenced to 16 months in prison for their roles in an insider trading scheme involving two impending corporate mergers, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the Northern District of California.

A state-owned Chinese coal company is overexploiting groundwater and illegally dumping toxic industrial wastewater, highlighting the need to curb the country's burgeoning coal industry, Greenpeace East Asia has revealed.

In Malawi, a woman picks up her monthly ration of supercereal.

Chinese officials say two shallow earthquakes in rural northwest China have killed at least 22 people and injured more than 200 others. The death toll is expected to rise.

Susquehanna County. NY State DEC has raised concerns over the environmental impacts of the project.

WWF points out that the over-exploitation of fossil fuels - such as coal, gas and oil - is putting the whole of humanity under threat from climate change.

A pro-coal provision snuck into the House Farm Bill would overturn a D.C. Circuit Court Decision requiring environmental review of a coal plant proposal in Kansas.