Environment

Palm oil giant IOI moves to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuses from supply chain

The IOI Group, one of the world’s largest palm oil traders, on April 28th, made a significant commitment to address deforestation and exploitation throughout its supply chain. Greenpeace has suspended its active campaign to give IOI time to show it is...

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EPA, Alaska To Work Together On Improving Fairbanks Air Quality

Fairbanks North Star Borough is reclassified as a “serious” nonattainment area for fine particulate air pollution.

“Fairbanks North Star Borough faces an especially difficult challenge of meeting existing pollution standards for a number of...

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Unlawful Trump Order Threatens Our Oceans And Moves Backward On Needed Climate Action

According to an administration fact sheet, President Trump will sign a sweeping executive order attempting to undo President Obama’s protections of large parts of our coast and oceans from offshore oil drilling.

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IUCN expedition to explore life on undersea mountains

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Corals, sponges and other organisms observed on the 2011 seamounts expedition in the South West Indian Ocean...

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