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Already this year 339 rhinos have been lost to poaching in South Africa.

Personnel in the National Guard Command Center in Arlington, Va., monitor the progress of Tropical Storm Isaac as it makes its way through the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. The NGCC, which serves as a hub that provides an overall tracking and coordination of National Guard elements, has gone to 24 hour operations in preparation for Isaac making landfall. Isaac's predicted path has it hitting the Gulf Coast region sometime Tuesday or Wednesday.

Tiger Camera Trap, Mae Wong National Park

At 5 am CET, 10 Greenpeace International activists from eight countries sprang into action to intercept the Anna Akhmatova and attempted to prevent it from mooring next to the Prirazlomnaya.

The lowest amounts of Arctic sea ice on record since satellite monitoring began in 1979 have all been recorded during the last six years. Chukchi Sea, Alaska.

Preliminary figures released today from US National Snow and Ice Data Centre indicates that Arctic sea ice extent fell to 4.10 million km2, some 70,000km2 lower than the 2007 level.

Residents along the U.S. Gulf Coast are bracing for Tropical Storm Isaac as it spins toward the city of New Orleans.

Scattered ice floes are seen from the bridge of the USCGC Healy on August 20, 2012 northwest of Barrow, Alaska. Arctic sea ice fell to its lowest daily extent in the satellite record on Sunday, August 26, 2012.

Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo and six other Greenpeace activists headed toward the platform early this morning in two high-speed boats to intercept the Anna Akhmatova passenger vessel as it prepared to drop off the workforce to the Prirazlomnaya. Two hours later, another two boats with seven more activists arrived on scene. There are now 14 activists in place from 10 different countries.

Small, migratory food fish on drying racks on the shores of the Tonle Sap River, Cambodia