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United Nations Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) Mark Lowcock completed a three-day mission to the Republic of Haiti and the Republic of Panama, on July 5.

A Thai diver died after running out of oxygen while assisting in the rescue of 12 boys and their football coach trapped inside the Tham Luang in Northern Thailand, an official said Friday.

Australia’s unique reptiles – including lizards and snakes – face severe threats from invasive species and climate change, with 7% of them threatened with extinction, reveals the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM, published on July 5. The Mauritian Flying Fox, an important pollinator, is now listed as Endangered due to a culling campaign, the update also reveals. There is some good news after the rediscovery of four South American amphibian species previously thought to be extinct.

Dozens of people are reported missing after a tourist boat capsized on rough seas late Thursday off the southern coast of Thailand, according to authorities.

The Mesoamerican Reef – a priority ecoregion for WWF – covers a large territory of water, from the Bay Islands in the north of Honduras to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, including the coasts of Guatemala and Belize. Laughing Bird Caye, Belize.

The Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabab has banned single-use plastic bags because of the threat they pose to the environment.

Removing a significant threat to public health and safety, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed its cleanup of improperly stored hazardous materials at the Morgan Materials, Inc., facility in Tonawanda, New York.

Rescuers in Thailand are racing against time to get a youth soccer team out of the partially flooded cave where they have been trapped for more than a week as forecasters predict heavy rains in the coming days.

Serranía de Chiribiquete National Park, located in the heart of the Colombian Amazon, on July 2, was expanded to 4.3 million hectares, making it the world’s largest national park protecting a tropical rainforest. In a double conservation win, it has also been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, reflecting its enormous environmental, cultural and social value.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have entered into a consent decree with MFA Incorporated, headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, and its wholly owned subsidiary MFA Enterprises, Incorporated (collectively, “MFA”), to address alleged chemical accident prevention and preparedness violations under the Risk Management Program of the Clean Air Act.