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The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

OUTSPOKEN Russian journalist and environmentalist Mikhail Beketov, who was beaten nearly to death in 2008 in an attack thought to be linked to his activism, has died, his lawyer says.

The Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), John E. Scanlon, expressed his grave concern over the recent reports of the deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic. Information suggests that armed groups have entered and may have started to massacre forest elephants in a World Heritage Site located in the...  

The agreement was passed without any exemptions, highly contentious in negotiations, as companies claimed that in some countries they would have to break national criminal laws which prohibit the disclosure of such information.

A Stern Lecture: Lord Nicholas Stern Says 2013 Is "Best Possible Year" for International Climate Action. At an event hosted by WRI and the International Monetary Fund, Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the famed 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, revealed the greatest hindrance to international climate action: political will.

People around the world invited to join in boosting momentum for most successful global anti-poverty push in history

Just Forests hereby supports a letter published on the occasion of the first International Day of Forests, 21 March, a new international day proposed by the UN. The following letter that will be sent to the UN and its forest-related institutions and initiatives is motivated by the fact that in spite of this and other UN initiatives to ask attention for forests at the international level,...  

New draft guidelines for key stages 1 to 3 criticised by scientists for 'abdicating duty to future generations' Predictably, this has not gone down well in some quarters. Prof Sir David King, the former government's science adviser, told the Guardian: "What you seem to have is a major political interference with the geography syllabus... If all of these aren't issues...