Environment

'We urgently need healthy soils to ensure essential services they provide,' Ban says on World Soil Day

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Sprouting fava beans at FAO Headquarters, Rome.

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Public Health And Environmental Groups Move To Defend Standards To Reduce Waste Of Natural Gas On Public Lands

Fifteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans took legal steps last Friday to defend new standards that will reduce natural gas waste on public and tribal lands, protect public...

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Safe Drinking Water For Flint, Michigan Threatened By Political Backroom Deals

On December 5, Representative Kevin McCarthy (CA), with support from Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA), is working to add a last-minute anti-environmental “rider” to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) bill that would jeopardize funding aimed at...

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At UN conference, countries adopt Cancun Declaration, ramping up efforts to protect world's biodiversity

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Tehuacán-Cuicatlán has one of Mexico’s highest rates of biodiversity and endemic species.

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