Environment

UN agency appeals for urgent funds to control locust plague threatening Madagascar

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Locusts swarms can be hundreds of miles long, leaving little vegetation behind.

NIH to reduce significantly the use of chimpanzees in research

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Pumpkin, a 24-year-old chimpanzee at the Alamogordo Primate Facility, N.M., loves coconuts and kiddie swimming pools. APF is a chimpanzee reserve where no research is conducted.

Gulf of Mexico Whales, Dolphins Protected from Industry’s High-Intensity Airgun Surveys in Landmark Agreement

Environmental coalition reaches legal settlement with feds and oil and gas industry

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Airgun surveys are known to affect marine mammal populations, like bottlenose dolphins

Earthjustice on President Obama’s Climate Change Address at Georgetown University

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Superstorm Sandy damage in Seaside, NJ,
on Oct. 30, 2012.

Enabling environment needed to upscale world’s renewable energy projects

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The report highlights key findings and understanding of what factors are required in order to reach renewable energy targets at the national level.

World Bank Calls for Europe and Central Asia to move from ‘Brown’ to ‘Green’ Growth

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UN chief saddened by loss of life, damage caused by torrential floods in India

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Tajikistan gets its first natural World Heritage Site

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Head of Vanj River, Tajik National Park

Iconic Mount Etna gains World Heritage status

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Mount Etna

WWF welcomes Peru as host of 2014 UN climate change summit

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The Amazon rain forest. Loreto region, Peru.