Environment

Greenpeace campaign bears fruits: Aldi Süd bans bee-harming pesticides

Aldi Süd is the first big retailer in Europe to ban eight bee-harming pesticides from domestic fruits and vegetables produced for their markets.

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'Renewable energy is limitless and will last forever,' says Ban at global debate

Everyone involved in energy—governments, the private sector, investors and financial institutions, cities, and people everywhere–has understood that we can no longer burn our way to global prosperity, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...

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CITES calls for urgent action to maintain pressure on illegal ivory and rhino horn trade

With thousands of elephants and rhinos poached each year, the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) concluded its 66th meeting in Geneva on 15 January by demanding urgent...

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Hong Kong government signals end to domestic ivory trade

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Seized ivory in Hong Kong. Last year a WWF-Hong...

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