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Dr. Robin Silver walks along the San Pedro River.

Fake food poses a huge threat to the health of consumers and can prove as profitable for organised crime as it can damage the UK economy. As part of the UK’s response the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will host an international conference next week (20 September) to set out the UK's plans to support the Interpol/Europol Operation Opson, set up in 2011 to tackle the problem of ‘fake food’.

African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)

Aerial view of flooded forest during rainy season with floating plants, Rio Negro Forest Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil

New evidence from Greenpeace International suggests that Herakles Farms continued to clear forest throughout a suspension period imposed by the Cameroonian Government earlier this year, when all work was ordered to stop.

Herakles Farms stated it had ceased work and was obeying the suspension in a company press release on 18 May 2013, and it was lifted on 29 May. However, logs stacked in the concession area are stamped with dates including "26 May" and "28 May" – suggesting they were felled while the stop order was still in place.

Earthjustice, on behalf of several state and national environmental and citizen groups, filed an amicus or “friend of the court” brief with the Indiana Court of Appeals in support of a challenge to the approval of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission of a new Duke Energy coal gasification power plant in Edwardsport, Indiana.

The European Solidarity Fund aid will help repair damage done by heavy rain and floods in October and November 2012 to private and public buildings, water and waste water infrastructure, businesses, farmland and forests.

OfficeWater gushing out of a borehole at Napuu area during the flushing process.

Conservation groups took legal action late last week to support the Department of Justice (DOJ) efforts to clean up several of Detroit Edison’s coal-burning power plants in Southern Michigan by requiring them to comply with the Clean Air Act.