Environment

Deputy UN chief calls for urgent action to tackle global sanitation crisis

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Living amid waste.

WWF exposes seven sins of dam building

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Seven Sins of Dam Building, WWF International. 2013.

Landmarks across the world go dark to celebrate major environmental outcomes for Earth Hour

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Earth Hour UAE 2012

Judge Upholds Uranium Mining Ban on 1 Million Acres Near Grand Canyon

Ruling upholds Interior Department’s authority to temporarily protect lands from destructive mining

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Uranium mine at the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Poachers kill at least 89 elephants in Chad

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Up to 120 fresh elephant carcasses with their tusks removed were discovered in the northern section of the park. The ivory most likely supplies the Sudanese Ivory markets that service trafficking to Asia.

China: World Bank to support rooftop solar for schools, low carbon city and key urban infrastructure development

Wednesday the World Bank Board of Directors approved five loans totaling US$620 million to the People’s Republic of China to install rooftop solar for public schools in Beijing, promote a low carbon city in Shanghai, and improve key urban infrastructure and public services in selected cities and towns in the two provinces of Jiangxi and Liaoning.

Endangered Mussels Win Reprieve But TVA Still Embracing Dangerous Coal Plant

Tennessee Valley Authority retrofits aging coal plant outside of Nashville

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The groups urged TVA to spend the more than $1 billion it will cost to upgrade the Gallatin plant’s pollution equipment on energy efficiency and clean-energy alternatives instead of extending the life of the aging power plant.

Suit Filed Challenging Montana’s Weak Wildlife Protections on State Trust Lands

State Habitat Conservation Plan approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fails to adequately protect threatened bull trout and grizzly bears

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Montana’s cold, clean streams contain some of the last prime habitat in the country for the threatened bull trout.

U.S. Interior Dept. Releases Disappointing Review of Arctic Ocean Drilling Operations

Additional evaluation needed before allowing Big Oil into the Arctic Ocean

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Shell's Noble Discoverer came dangerously close to running aground near Dutch Harbor, AK, in July 2012.

As New York Considers its Next Move on Fracking, Attention Turns To Industry Infrastructure

Residents, business owners, elected officials express concern over proposed gas storage facilities

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Seneca Lake Harbor.