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As the geopolitical importance of the Arctic region is growing, with climate change effects and competition for natural resources bringing new environmental and security risks for the region and for the world, the EU should speak with one voice and push to keep the Arctic an area of cooperation, says a resolution adopted by the Foreign Affairs and Environment committees on Tuesday.

We can all expect to see spells of wet and windy weather this week as deep low pressure systems move towards the UK from the Atlantic.

The Met Office has signed an agreement with JBA Consulting to offer ForeCoast® Marine, its meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) risk management software, to its marine and offshore clients.

The share of waste to be recycled should be raised to 70% by 2030, from 44% today, while landfilling, which has a big environmental impact, should be limited to 5%, said Environment Committee MEPs on Tuesday, as they amended the draft EU “waste package” legislation. They also advocate a 50% reduction in food waste by 2030.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will go back to square one and conduct new environmental studies before starting its planned dredging project to expand Port Everglades. The Corps’ dredging project at Port Everglades aims to make way for larger, “post-Panamax” shipping vessels.

On Tuesday 24 January Parliament’s environment committee votes to amend a Commission proposal on waste management, the so-called “waste package” which includes four directives. In previous resolutions Parliament has called for more ambitious targets. Waste packaging is an inter-institutional priority for 2017 and this vote is the first step towards entering negotiations with the Commission and Council.

Farmers and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit on Friday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Monsanto’s new “XtendiMax” pesticide. The approval, of the pesticide company’s latest version of the older weed-killer known as dicamba, permits it to be sprayed directly on Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE), dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton.

I-70 cuts through the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods. “Our neighborhood has long endured the noise, pollution, and ugly physical barriers that I-70 has imposed on us and CDOT’s decision to triple the impact is simply too much for this community to bear," said Jenny Santos of the Colorado Latino Forum.

Many marine fish species – including the Madeiran sardine – are in danger of global extinction due to overfishing along the coast of western and central Africa, threatening food security in the region, according to the Eastern Central Atlantic Red List of Threatened Species published on January 19 by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).