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A Brazilian prosecutor has filed a second 20 billion real ($10.9 billion) lawsuit against oil giant Chevron and Swiss-based offshore driller Transocean for an oil leak northeast of Rio de Janeiro.

Poor rains could further undermine food security

The Bankasoka river in Sierra Leone.

We have to take action now to sustain life in the coming years

Demining engineer of the Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan clears an anti-personnel landmine.

Madrid-based think-tank DARA believes the number of countries adversely affected by changing weather will rise from 15 today to 54 in 2030

On August 29, 2005, over a 12-hour period, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf coast of the United States with winds up up to 233 kilometers per hour [145mph] - killing more than 1,700 people and displacing hundreds of thousands. Seven years later, residents of the area still are struggling to rebuild. And while the effects of the storm remain evident, there also are some striking improvements.

A natural gas pipeline owned by Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, caught fire when fuel was being stolen from a stretch near the western city of Tlajomulco, officials said.

The Broadband Bridge: Linking ICT with Climate Action. Photo: ITU