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"There were a significant number of aftershocks throughout the night so our staff on the ground are scared and traumatized—not to mention the children living on the island who have now experienced their second earthquake in a week.

At least 91 people are now confirmed dead from Sunday's powerful earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok, triggering a brief tsunami warning and sending residents and tourists fleeing into the streets.

Russia would be releasing ten bisons into the wild in North Ossetia during August. The restoration of bisons in North Ossetia is a part of a strategy to re-introduce the animals in the country

A seventh person has died in the wildfire burning 600 kilometers northeast of San Francisco, as twin fires burning father south exploded in size, forcing hundreds more to evacuate.

On August 3, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement agreement with Anchor Glass Container Corporation that will resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at all six of Anchor’s container glass manufacturing facilities located in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, and Oklahoma, and improve the company’s compliance with federal clean air laws.

The EU-funded Southern Gaza Desalination Plant currently provides drinking water to 75,000 inhabitants in the Khan Younis and Rafah governorates. With the new energy field and new investments foreseen it will eventually reach 250,000 people in Southern Gaza by 2020.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, on August 2, announced that it intends to create a special rule to undermine safeguards for the Tongass and the Chugach National Forests, prized expanses of glaciers, fjords and old-growth rainforest spanning more than 22 million acres in Alaska

Confluencia de los ríos Teles Pires y Juruena, formando el río Tapajós. Mato Grosso, Amazonas, Brasil

On August 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed to gut national clean car standards as well as states’ authority to protect their residents from tailpipe pollution under the Clean Air Act.