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China has banned ultra-thin plastic bags in ecologically fragile southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region.

Mount Everest has lost significant amounts of ice over the last 89 years, according to a group that recently travelled to Everest to take exactly the same picture that another explorer did in 1921.

Typhoon Conson has been downgraded Saturday to Tropical Storm Conson, after hammering the Philippines and China’s Hainan Island during the week.

EU Member States supported today proposed rules for auctioning emission allowances valid for the third trading period of the EU ETS starting in 2013 as well as allowances to be used by aircraft operators already as from 2012.

Germany, France and Britain on Thursday jointly called for the European Union to deepen its planned reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions from 20 to 30 percent by 2020.

In March and April 2010, Adelaido Caminade, a sheriff attached to the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB) in Davao City, carried out the eviction and demolition of the homes of 50 families. Nineteen are farmer beneficiaries who had been awarded the Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) in 1991 by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).

The United Nations rural development arm is helping to improve agricultural programmes in West Africa’s Sahel region, especially in Niger, which is currently in the throes of a growing food crisis.

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is an initiative to prevent conflict diamonds from being traded; what if there was a similar initiative to put illegal logging out of business? Sam Lawson, the lead author of a new report produced by Chatham House, a UK-based think-tank, acknowledges it is an idea that should be pursued.

BP says a new cap has stopped oil from leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April.

With word from the National Weather Service (NWS) that the bulk of this evening’s storms is behind us and that additional severe weather is not expected, the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) closed down at 3:00 a.m.