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There are probably only about 10 Persians leopards remaining in Russia.

On November 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced a settlement worth more than $500,000 with El Paso Natural Gas Company LLC, (EPNG) to reimburse government costs related to 19 abandoned uranium mines located on the Navajo Nation, near Cameron, Arizona.

Greater Dhaka needs climate-smart policies and higher investment to improve its resilience to intense rainfall and to prepare for climate change, says a new World Bank book ‘Urban Flooding of Greater Dhaka in a Changing Climate: Building Local Resilience to Disaster Risk’ and a new report ‘Climate and Disaster Resilience of Greater Dhaka Area: A Micro Level Analysis’, launched on November 23.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the University of California Santa Cruz with an award for outstanding efforts in food recovery. The students, food service staff and university leaders worked together to cut food waste by more than 750 tons from 2013 to 2014.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the seventh ASEAN-UN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

On Friday 20 November, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Marine Management Organisation (MMO) co-hosted a workshop on ensuring global compliance with illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing regulations, demonstrating the UK’s continued lead in the fight against illegal fishing.

"Continuous improvement is a core design feature of the RSPO": WWF Palm Oil lead Adam Harrison at RSPO 13

Flagging tape in the Sunset Roadless Area identifies the location of a proposed coal exploration drilling pad. The forest visible will likely be bulldozed if the loophole is reopened.

A global re-assessment of polar bears highlights loss of sea ice habitat due to climate warming as the single most important threat to the long-term survival of the species, according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ released by IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature on November 19.