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UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja.

A group of young campaigners set off today on an expedition to help save the Arctic, aiming to also hold an unexpected meeting with a delegation of influential Arctic officials at the North Pole later this week.

Fermenting organic matter to produce energy in Nepal with biogas plants.

Peat draining and large-scale clearance of natural forest by APP wood supplier PT. Ruas Utama Jaya inside APP’s Senepis Tiger Sanctuary in June and October 2011

Collis Inc, a manufacturer of metal racks and shelving brackets for refrigerators, has agreed to pay a $31,379 administrative civil penalty to settle several Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations in Clinton, Iowa.

Displaced Syrian children play among tents at the Domiz refugee camp.

The timber industry has once again set its sights on the small seabird in order to increase logging of
forests more than 100 years old.

A Yangtze finless porpoise found in Dongting lake, China on April 15 2012. Some 32 finless porpoise deaths have been reported since the beginning of the year.

Commenting on the release of the Commission’s green paper, A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies [2], Greenpeace EU energy policy adviser Frederic Thoma said: “The Commission has sounded the start of round one but EU governments will decide if Europe goes into the ring ready for victory or with one arm tied behind its back. As it stands, the Commission’s lack of ambition on 2030 climate, renewables and energy efficiency targets make the EU a lightweight.”