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A crowd awaits food distribution at Pibor town, South Sudan.

Consumers line up to buy maize at a market in Rumphi

"What we have now is a crisis of confidence. We are getting more and more news about the impact and the scope of this labelling issue" said Public Health Committee chair Matthias Groote (S&D, DE).

WWF representative hands over the half - million signature petition to Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to ban ivory trade

documentation of illegal fishing activities encountered during two ship expeditions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans in 2012 highlighting the need for urgent action.

African Black Rhino in Ngorongoro.

U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Rodney R. Hailey, of Perry Hall, Md., last Friday to nearly 12 years and six months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling $9 million in renewable fuel credits which he falsely claimed were produced by his company, Clean Green Fuel, LLC.

“China has been the world’s largest chemical producer since 2010. The Plan indicates that the massive pollution found across the country, caused by large-scale chemical production and the release of hazardous chemicals, urgently needs to be tackled,” said Yixiu Wu, Toxic Campaigner for Greenpeace East Asia based on Beijing.

Teshekpuk Lake area in Alaska. The region is home to countless lakes and some of the most productive wetland systems in the world.