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A 7.8 magnitude earthquake which hit Ecuador on 16 April 2016 caused death and destruction.

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The Greenpeace ship, The Esperanza, launched an expedition in the Indian Ocean to peacefully tackle unsustainable fishing by the world’s largest tuna company on April 18, Thai Union.

EPA Region 7 has reached a settlement in a civil enforcement action against LHP, LLC, for alleged violations of the Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule in connection with renovation work done at one of its rental houses in Lincoln, Neb. As part of the settlement, the company will pay an $8,840 civil penalty to the United States.

UNICEF delivered 20,000 water purification tablets to Pedernales on April 17, the area worst affected by the earthquake that hit Ecuador last night. A UNICEF team is on the ground assessing the impact of the quake on children.

Women live longer in areas with more green vegetation, according to new research funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health. Women with the highest levels of vegetation, or greenness, near their homes had a 12 percent lower death rate compared to women with the lowest levels of vegetation near their homes. The results were published April 14 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Although small island states contribute the least to climate change, they bear the brunt of its effects.

Drax in North Yorkshire is one of the UK's largest coal-fired plants. In 2015 its operator won contracts for capacity payments worth £80m to keep it open.

Given concerns about the carcinogenicity and endocrine disruptive properties of the herbicide glyphosate, used in many farm and garden applications, the EU Commission should renew its marketing approval for just 7 years, instead of 15, and for professional uses only, Parliament says in a resolution voted on Wednesday. MEPs call for an independent review and the publication of all the scientific evidence that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) used to assess glyphosate.

Protest action at European Commission buildings in Brussels against glyphosate, the main component of world most widely used herbicide Roundup.