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A freight train derailed in northwest Iowa on Friday, leaking crude oil into flooded fields flanking the tracks and raising concerns about the possible contamination of residential water supplies downstream, officials said.
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By AFP
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Human-caused ocean noise and its dangers to marine life are the focus of meetings at the United Nations this week, a victory for advocacy groups that have long warned of this problem.- What are the causes of ocean noise?
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By AFP
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In the first trial of its kind, a Californian dying of cancer is suing US agrochemical giant Monsanto, claiming its popular herbicide Roundup caused his disease -- a case that could have sweeping ramifications.
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The City of London Corporation has announced its intention to power the UK capital's financial district – which is home to the Stock Exchange and the Bank of England – using electricity sourced from renewables starting in October 2018.
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By AFP
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For centuries, the Faroe Islands have hunted pilot whales in ritual fashion, herding them into shallow waters to beach them before stabbing them with knives, turning the water a bloody red.
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By AFP
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Egypt's shrinking freshwater "Pharaonic Sea" has residents in its nearly 50 surrounding fishing villages worried.
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By AFP
Flooding in southern Myanmar has caused a landslide at a famed Buddhist pagoda, submerged homes and displaced hundreds of people as monsoon rains batter the country.
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By AFP
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Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world's highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big-spending climbers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind.
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By AFP
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday offered his backing to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a bitter row with her interior minister over her liberal immigration policy.
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By AFP
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A bill intended to reduce the volume of microplastics dumped into the ocean was approved by Japan's parliament on Friday, but it included no sanctions for failure to comply.
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By AFP
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Mexico's population of wild jaguars has grown 20 percent in the past eight years, according to a study released Thursday, a bit of good news for an iconic species whose numbers have been declining.
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By AFP
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China-based electric car startup Byton has raised $500 million as it ramps up efforts to take on rivals like Tesla.
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By AFP
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Some of Africa's oldest and biggest baobab trees -- a few dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks -- have abruptly died, wholly or in part, in the past decade, researchers said Monday.
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Our seas are choking on plastic. A staggering eight million metric tons wind up in oceans every year — and if we continue to pollute at this rate, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. Where does all this plastic waste come from?
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By AFP
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Construction of the World Cup fan zone outside Moscow's top university is fuelling a rare protest in Russia as students worry thousands of partying football fans will destroy one of the capital's few green spaces.
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By AFP
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The Slovenian anti-immigration party that came first in last week's election will attempt to form a coalition government, its leader said Thursday, despite falling well short of a parliamentary majority.
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By AFP
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Joining the government of President Emmanuel Macron in May last year, celebrity environmental activist Nicolas Hulot made clear he was unsure whether he would have much of an impact.
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Canada's plastics makers have set their own targets for keeping all plastic out of Canadian landfills by 2030. The announcement comes just days before the federal government asks other G7 member states to push for international zero-plastics-waste.
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By AFP
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Up to five trillion grocery bags are used each year and like most plastic garbage barely any is recycled, the UN said Tuesday as it warned the world was choking on trash.
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By AFP
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A Vietnamese mangrove draped with polythene, a whale killed after swallowing waste bags in Thai seas and clouds of underwater trash near Indonesian "paradise" islands -- grim images of the plastic crisis that has gripped Asia.
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By AFP
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A whale has died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags, officials said, ending an attempted rescue that failed to nurse the mammal back to health.
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By AFP
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A state-owned Estonian wind farm launched a cryptocurrency mine on Friday, hoping to cash-in on Mother Nature's unlimited supplies of power on a windswept Baltic Sea island, a company official said.
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By AFP
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Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research but conservationists call "gruesome and unnecessary".
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By AFP
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Poland's prime minister on Tuesday asked justice and security authorities to look into dozens of blazes at landfills this year amid allegations that a "mafia" has boosted garbage imports after China banned them.
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By AFP
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Britain risks a shortage of electric cars after Brexit as carmakers will lose an incentive to sell low-emission vehicles there, a Brussels-based think-tank warned.
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ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, on Wednesday announced plans to achieve a 15 percent reduction in methane emissions from its operations by 2020,
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By AFP
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A conservation agency has constructed what is believed to be the world's longest cat-proof fence in central Australia to save native wildlife and vegetation ravaged by the feline predators.
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Rivers are drying up, popular mountain recreation spots are closing and water restrictions are in full swing as a persistent drought intensifies its grip on pockets of the American Southwest.
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By AFP
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From ivory baubles and leopard coats to rare turtles and live bears, the online market for protected wildlife is booming, according to an International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) investigation released Wednesday.
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By AFP
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To meet its growing electricity needs in its drive to develop oil resources in remote Arctic regions, Russia has built a floating nuclear power station, a project that detractors deride as a "Chernobyl on ice".
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Distribution of fossil fuels among stock exchanges worldwide Carbon Tracker
South Dakota has quite a lot of unspoiled natural areas up for sale. Andrew Filer
National Tree Day volunteers receive instructions from a supervisor.
screen shots from the movie "Home" by Yann Arthus-Bertrand Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Map showing fracking sites in Gulf of mexico (2010 to 2014). Center for Biological Diversity
What were they thinking? Fracking in Gulf of Mexico comes to light. Twitter
From natural disasters to man-made disasters, they do impact on urbanization. YouTube
Many of the oil palm plantations are owned by families who depend on the crop for their livelihood. WWF
A donkey transports firewood on the Mount Elgon slopes in Kapchorwa, eastern Uganda October 20, 2010. Transportation is a major problem in the area which has a poor road network.
Door County lakeshore on
Lake Michigan, Wisconsin. Karen Holland/EPA
Defend Our Climate - Defend Our Communities mock wedding between the fossil fuel industry and government, May 10, 2014.
Mike Hudema is from Edmonton, Alberta. He tweeted this beautiful picture of the hundreds of thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C. today. Mike Hudema/Twitter
Some Sciaena umbra shot in the marine protected area of Port-Cros near the Gabinière Rock in France's Port-Cros National park. Arnaud Abadie
Captured from the ocean in 1983, Tilikum's life revolves around entertaining the mass public at SeaWorld. Voice of the Orcas
Chennai-born rapper Sofia Ashraf is the voice of the Indian people. She has released a rap song to promote her campaign to force the Hindustan Unilever to clean-up the environmental pollution. Kodaikanal Won't
Ash trees near Saxby UK David Wright
The Jay Street public plaza is part of a new mixed-use complex in Downtown Brooklyn that creates a pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly street with new community amenities. Scape Studio
Stefano Boeri Architetti's newly announced Forêt Blanche tower will be covered in 2,000 plants. Stefano Boeri Architetti
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