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Fish processing at the Black Sea port of Trazon in Turkey.

Tuesday the World Bank Board of Directors approved a loan of US$80 million to the People’s Republic of China to reforest and rehabilitate ice storm affected ecological forest plantations in Hunan Province to develop a stable forest ecosystem that can be tolerant of future disturbances and change – including those caused by climate change.

It is now the 14th global corporation to make a credible Detox commitment and the first to provide an explicit process that will ensure the total elimination of phthalates. This comes after Greenpeace investigations revealed the presence of a hormone-disrupting phthalate in underwear purchased from Victoria’s Secret in the United States.

Government hypocrisy on major energy projects is fueling climate change and placing populations at risk, Greenpeace International said as it released a new report revealing the alarming threat posed by a planned massive global increase in emissions from coal, oil and gas projects.

The report illustrates that PV technology, when well-planned, does not conflict with conservation goals and clarifies that no country or region must choose between solar PV and space for humans and nature.

In a settlement with the United States on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, automotive electronics manufacturer Edge Products LLC (Edge) has agreed to pay a $500,000 civil penalty for manufacturing and selling electronic devices that allowed owners of model year 2007 and later diesel pickup trucks to remove emission controls from their vehicles.

Boaters, anglers and swimmers headed to the spring-fed Santa Fe River near Gainesville, FL for the 2012 Memorial Day weekend encountered an outbreak of nasty green slime, sparked by pollution from sewage, manure and fertilizer.

On Friday a federal grand jury in Macon, Ga., returned an indictment charging Kimberly Michelle Banks, a resident of Cordele, Ga., with crimes involving the use of stolen identities on false federal income tax returns in order to obtain refunds to which Banks was not entitled.

Tens of thousands of African elephants are being killed each year to supply the illegal ivory trade in Asia.

With discussions focusing on renewable energy at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi this week, a recently-released report from Calvert Investments, Ceres and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) shows that most of the world’s largest companies aren’t waiting on governments to embrace renewable energy and lower emissions.