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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on June 10 approved $310 million to help Vietnam build climate resilience and ensure sustainable livelihoods of 1.2 million people living in nine Mekong Delta provinces affected by climate change, salinity intrusion, coastal erosion, and flooding.

Almost one-third of food produced for human consumption – approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year – is either lost or wasted globally.

The effects of climate change on the Arctic — including melting ice and sea level rise — may possibly alter weather patterns in the northern hemisphere. These effects could include hotter, drier summers in some areas, wetter summers in other areas, and cold, stormy winters in others, according to studies compiled by the Greenpeace Research Laboratories in the report, “What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic” which is published on 7 June.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on 6 June approved a loan of $500 million to help China’s Hebei Province reduce air pollutants.

A fisheries worker unloading the morning's catch.

Girls dressed in traditional clothes and with their faces and bodies painted in white dance during the official opening of a school for rangers and the environment, at the opening of the World Environment Day activities in Menongue, in the province of Cuando-Cubango, Angola, June 4, 2016.

The Florida Forever conservation land-buying program was created to set aside funds for conservation to protect coastal areas like this one.