Environment

Long-term solutions needed for conservation of borneo pygmy elephants

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Data reveals there are probably not more than 1,000 Borneo pygmy elephants left in Sabah, Malaysia, less than the 1,600 or so previously estimated.

Coal Mining Threatens Colorado’s Mountain Backcountry

Conservationists seek stay of Arch Coal mining plans to protect public lands, forests, habitat

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Beaver lodge in Sunset Trail Roadless Area

Breakthrough For Hawaiian Solar Power Announced By Clean Energy Groups

Barriers should come down for homeowners, businesses wanting to add rooftop solar

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Solar panel installation in Hawaiʻi.

WWF: Global system to curb aircraft emissions could easily take flight

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Aviation is the most emission-intensive form of transport on the planet

136,000-plus Oppose Agribusiness Campaign to Strip Orcas of Federal Protection

Puget Sound's southern resident orcas targeted

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Orca L87 breaches at sunset with Whidbey Island and Mt. Baker in the background, Oct. 15, 2010.

Groups Sue Interior Department for Failure to Protect Streams

Broad coalition back in court challenging unlawful rule issued by the Bush Administration

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Based on EPA estimates, mountaintop removal mining has destroyed or harmed 2,400 miles
of Appalachian streams to date.

Despite successes, Congo Basin forests being ‘emptied’ of their elephants

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African elephant In silhouette against the sunset. With up to 40,000 elephants, the TRIDOM Landscape is home to Africa’s largest forest elephant population.

Industry key to conserving forests as demand for wood projected to triple by 2050

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Wood is used to construct and furnish buildings, to make paper products for hygiene, writing, printing and packaging, and to produce energy. New technologies are creating many more ways to use wood.

Energy utility RWE and IUCN join forces for nature

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Energy LI

Global fashion company H&M tackles business and environmental risk with cutting-edge water strategy

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The Yangtze River - the Chinese Eden of biodiversity.