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Environment
African, Asian Nations Agree on Deal to Stop Ivory Trafficking
The African Elephant Summit calls for “zero-tolerance approach”
The Ivory Trade Is Out of Control, and China Needs to Do More to Stop It
Around 100 African elephants are being slaughtered daily just so people can carve ridiculous ornaments from their tusks
Kids Get ‘Smog Day’ As Pollution Shuts Down Chinese City
Choking pollution measured at 40 times what the WHO says is safe
Russia Takes On Greenpeace — and Stakes Its Claim to the Arctic
U.N. Climate Panel: It’s 95% Certain That Humans Are The Dominant Cause of Climate Change
A new report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has deemed that humans have been the driving force behind climate change since 1950, and that it will require significant action to halt the warming.
The report, which is known as AR5, will be released in stages over the next 14 months; the first portion was …
How Not to Love Nature: Shove a Coal Plant Next to Earth’s Biggest Mangrove Forest
Smoke-belching behemoth near Bangladesh’s Sundarbans National Park will threaten the home of Bengal tigers, river dolphins and other species