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The UN in Iraq goes green: UNAMI staff installing a new biodigestor.

Groundwater dependant ecosystems support livelihoods in Vietnam

Buffalo National River.

Sunset over the Thomas Johnson Bridge. Solomon's Island, Lower Patuxent River, Maryland

The Thompson Divide.

U.S. beekeepers report losing more than 30 percent of their colonies this past winter.
Tuesday's report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the loss is 42 percent higher than the previous winter.

African forest elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis); Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that Keller Transportation, Inc. (Keller) has agreed to pay penalties totaling $83,500 to settle Clean Water Act claims related to a 2008 tanker truck spill approximately 500 feet from the shores of Flathead Lake and within the exterior boundaries of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) of the Flathead Nation. The tanker spill resulted in more than 6,300 gallons of gasoline entering springs along Flathead Lake, impacting groundwater as well as the lake.

Wildlife in the Sangha Trinational Site, where Dzanga-Sanga National Park of the Central African Republic is located.

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Christiana Figueres briefs press in Bonn, Germany.