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Instrumented locations around Manaus will measure the natural environment, as well as emission outflow from the city.

UN officials and legislators attend the GLOBE Climate Legislation Summit in Washington DC.

A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen launching from the Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, Japan.

Procter & Gamble, which makes Head & Shoulders, is sourcing palm oil from companies connected to orangutan habitat clearance in Indonesia, making consumers part of a widespread forest destruction scandal. That's according to findings from a yearlong investigation by Greenpeace International, which also reveals that current sourcing policies of the personal care company also expose its supply chain to forest fires and habitat destruction that is pushing the Sumatran tiger to the edge of extinction.

Standing on the rim of Nyamuragira volcano near Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). MONUSCO has been supporting scientific research on the volcano.

The black sand coast near Taremb, Malekula Island, Vanuatu.

MEPs will debate an agreement with the Council on cutting CO2 emissions for new passenger cars by 2020 on Monday 24 February and vote on it the following day. This is important as one fifth of all CO2 emissions in Europe comes from cars, while emissions from road transport increased by 26% between 1990 and 2008.

Protected from external dangers, an elephant family roam peacefully in the Mikumi National Park in Tanzania

Worth up to 2000 times more alive than dead, the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries is granting full protected status to its manta ray populations that support a US$15 million marine tourism industry.

Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that a leak from an overflowing water storage tank at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was detected in the late evening of 19 February 2014. About 100 cubic metres of radioactive water leaked to the ground adjacent to the tank storage area before the leak was stopped about six hours later.