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Health worker during community awareness campaign, showing guinea worm disease flipchart.

Projected path of Hurricane Sandy

Aquarium collector taking fish off of Hawai`i reef.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the County of Maui has agreed to a settlement to resolve alleged violations of air pollution laws at Central Maui Landfill in Puunene.

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior is currently transiting from Mauritius to the Maldives as part of its Indian Ocean expedition and found in total three fishing boats deep within the Chagos marine protected area, established by the UK government in 2010.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a legal complaint to the owner and operator of seventeen underground storage tanks at six gasoline stations in Western New York for violating federal regulations.

An agreement with the timber industry, if approved by a federal court, would eliminate protection from 3,887,800 acres of critical habitat for the marbled murrelet until 2018.

“This commitment from M&S sets a new benchmark and they join H&M in showing real leadership on the issue of toxic water pollution. The onus is now on other brands to step up and take ambitious action to Detox that matches the urgency of the situation,” said Martin Hojsik, Detox Campaign Coordinator at Greenpeace International.

Desert locusts eating vegetation.

People wade through the flood waters in the district Jaffarabad and Nasirabad, Balochistan.