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The heads of the world’s largest development banks pledged Monday to work together to substantially increase climate investments and ensure that development programs going forward consider climate risks and opportunities.

“An unprecedented 150 heads of state arrived in Paris Monday on a wave of historic momentum in the fight against climate change. This is a significant demonstration that climate change is at the top of the political agenda.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a final agreement to investigate contamination at the Columbia Falls Aluminum Plant, also known as the Anaconda Company Columbia Falls Reduction Plant site, in Flathead County, Montana.

“We came to Paris hoping this summit will call time on the fossil fuel era. The oil, coal and gas companies came here hoping for the exact opposite, but at the end of day one we’d rather be us than them.There was good and bad to be heard from the podium, but on balance there is a sense of great potential here in Paris.”

A dress made from the heavy fabric of a tent used to shelter refugees in Jordan shimmers unexpectedly into life at the busy London train station, sparkling with weather data provided by the Met Office.

Coral reefs are a key weapon in the armory against climate change, helping to buffer coastlines from storms and acting as havens for biodiversity but they are being degraded by ocean acidification.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to the UN News Centre ahead of the UN climate change conference, COP21, in Paris, France.

The latest edition of ‘Primates in Peril: The world’s 25 most endangered primates’ has been revealed on November 24. Compiled by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC), Bristol Zoological Society, the International Primatological Society (IPS), and Conservation International (CI), new additions to the list include Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) and Lavasoa Mountains dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis), both of which are threatened by habitat loss.

Pope Francis and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner at UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. 26 November 2015.

The whooping crane is one of the most endangered animals on earth. EPA admitted that during their migration, whooping cranes “will stop to eat and may consume arthropod prey” that may have been exposed to 2,4-D, and that in sufficient amounts, such exposure is toxic to the cranes.