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UNEP Launches Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities.

National governments should increase green investments to encourage economic growth, according to a measure now pending before the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

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Top United Nations officials have called for greater efforts to preserve the soils on which human subsistence depends and to halt and reverse land degradation.

Particle pollution does not just make people die a few days earlier than they might otherwise—these are deaths that would not have occurred if the air were cleaner.

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Guchol on June 12 at 0335 UTC and captured a near-infrared image of the storm from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument. The infrared imagery indicates that convection and thunderstorms are consolidating over the low-level circulation center. Two tightly curved bands of thunderstorms are wrapping into the low-level center from the northeastern and southwestern quadrants of the storm.

A plane carrying a group of skydivers has been involved in an accident, in which passengers were killed.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged countries to boost their efforts to protect the world’s oceans, which are threatened by overfishing, toxic waste, and climate change.

A powerful earthquake has hit off the east coast of Taiwan, but there have been no reports of casualties.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses UN Bike Ride in support of Rio+20.