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Other parts of the country are in the midst of a fracking-enabled drilling rush. Along with this rush have come troubling reports of poisoned drinking water, polluted, air industrial disasters, earthquakes and explosions

Critically endangered black rhino.

Vital economic and environmental role of wetlands must be recognized to avoid further degradation and losses.

Goran Svilanović, Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, speaking at the opening of the Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting at the Hofburg in Vienna, 16 October 2012.

Walpack Valley, Sussex County, within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Grauer’s gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri) DRC

Governments are gathered in Hyderabad, India, from 8th to 19th October to discuss implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a legally binding treaty governing the sustainable use of our planet’s natural wealth.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that the fire at the Hillcrest Industries facility in Attica, New York is now fully extinguished. The EPA is arranging the plastic and glass piles on site to a more manageable size to avoid reignition.

The world’s 25 most endangered primates have been revealed in a new report released today at the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity COP11. Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2012–2014 has been compiled by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS), in collaboration with Conservation International (CI) and the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation (BCSF).