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A farmworker harvests ferns in Florida. An Earthjustice and GreenLatinos study on Florida Latinos and the environment found that the majority of Latinos in the state say it is very or extremely important to reduce the use of pesticides and GMOs in farming.

Anti - TTIP demonstration in Berlin, January 2015. 97 percent of respondents to a Europe-wide public consultation on TTIP launched by the Commission in March opposed the inclusion of the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Climate change has serious implications for agriculture and food security.

Six months after Cyclone Pam hit the Pacific, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors Tuesday approved an additional US$3 million grant to support Tuvalu’s medium-term recovery efforts.

This image shows a view of the Arctic on September 11, 2015 when sea ice extent was at 4.41 million square kilometers (1.70 million square miles). The orange line shows the 1981 to 2010 average extent for that day. The black cross indicates the geographic North Pole. Sea Ice Index data. About the data.

Father and son fishermen in dugout canoe bringing in net at sunset, Ohoidertutu Village, Kei Islands, Moluccas, Indonesia.

Under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) has agreed to make major upgrades, improve inspections and cleaning of existing facilities within the Puerto Nuevo system and continue improvements to its systems island-wide.

Draft rules to cut emissions of major air pollutants from non-road mobile machinery (NRMM), ranging from lawn mowers to bulldozers, tractors and inland waterway vessels, were backed by Environment Committee MEPs on Tuesday. NRMM engines account for about 15% of all NOx and 5% of particulate emissions in the EU.

A federal court Monday entered an order settling two cases challenging the U.S. Navy’s training and testing activities off the coasts of Southern California and Hawaiʻi, securing long-sought protections for whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals by limiting Navy activities in vital habitat. The settlement stems from the court’s earlier finding that the Navy’s activities illegally harm more than 60 separate populations of whales, dolphins, seals, and sea lions.

Environmental and public health groups are urging Kern County to reject a severely flawed Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) related to proposed revisions of the county’s oil and gas zoning ordinance.