Environment

Obama Administration Delay Leaves Waters of the United States in Peril

White House sits on Clean Water Act guidance to restore protections to waters of the United States

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Feb. 21, 2013, 59% of our streams and millions of acres of wetlands are still unprotected, subject to unrestrained pollution.

All eyes on countries fuelling illegal ivory trade

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Thailand must ban ivory trade or should face international trade sanctions.

EPA Illegally Waives Pollution Fees For Industrial Polluters in Southern California

Practice target of new lawsuit

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Los Angeles was one of two regions that failed to meet the 2010 deadline and was designated as an “extreme ozone nonattainment area.”

After China's Cleanup, Water Still Unfit to Drink

China aims to spend $850 billion to improve filthy water supplies over the next decade, but even such huge outlays may do little to reverse damage caused by decades of pollution and overuse in Beijing's push for rapid economic growth.

FEATURE: Quinoa Year aims to ease food insecurity and transform the global diet

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Quinoa farmed on the Bolivian antiplano ranges in colour from white to pink to orange.

US agribusiness could carve ten Manhattans out of African forest: Greenpeace

Massive carbon emissions and the destruction of habitats critical to threatened animal species – those will be just some of the results if a palm oil plantation by New York-based agribusiness Herakles Farms in Cameroon is not stopped, according to investigations from Greenpeace USA.

“The Herakles Farms project can be seen as part of a wider land grab in Africa. The company sees only the opportunity to make money, ignoring the fact it will destroy a rainforest area of great biodiversity and the livelihoods of local people who farm it,” said Rolf Skar, Forest Campaign Director with Greenpeace USA.

Citing sea ice melt, UN urges stronger measures to protect fragile Arctic environment

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The impact of climate change on icebergs and glaciers.

Fukushima suffering continues, but nuclear regulations make the public pay

The fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues for hundreds of thousands of victims in Japan still denied fair compensation from a regulatory system that allows the nuclear industry to evade its responsibilities and forces the public to pay for its disasters.

A new Greenpeace International report, Fukushima Fallout: Nuclear business makes people pay and suffer, details how the serious flaws in nuclear regulations worldwide leave the public, not nuclear plant operators or suppliers of key equipment, to pay for the vast majority of the costs in the event of a nuclear accident. The report was released at a news conference in Tokyo today.

UNICEF seeks nearly US$7 million for tens of thousands of flood victims in Mozambique

UNICEF is seeking US$6.8 million to meet the needs of tens of thousands of children and women affected by severe flooding of the Limpopo River in Mozambique.

U.S. Groups React to New Mexico Power Plant Agreement

Applaud retirement of two units while awaiting emissions reductions details

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San Juan Generating Station, with the San Juan Coal Mine to the left.