One of the world's cleanest lakes, Lake Baikal is rapidly being polluted.

Though they may look like forests at first glance, palm oil plantations often have far lower biodiversity and store far less carbon than the genuine forests they replace.

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In case you've been wondering lately if this whole tree-hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact, the UNEP has just released a new report detailing which human activ

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I have to say that this one just really depresses me (but please look straight at this one): AFP writes that a new report by the UNEP shows tha

Along Korea's 155-mile-long demilitarized zone.

No matter how you cut it, geoengineering is a mind-boggling proposition, and most scientists are saying it should only be used as a last-ditch resort, rather than as a

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What's the good news in that headline? According to the UK's Soil Association, estimates by the UN that to feed our ever-increasing population we will have to double food production by 2050 are too high and based on flawed data. Instead, an increase of about 70% is more accurate.

UNEP (the United Nations Environmental Programme) is a Live Earth non-profit partner. This was originally posted at UNEP.org.

Geneva (Switzerland)/Nairobi (Kenya), 16 April 2010 - "Every step and every drop counts to solve the water crisis."

This is the rallying cry of the global Live Earth Run for Water campaign which on Sunday 18 April will mobilize communities in more than 175 cities around the world to raise awareness of the growing scarcity of safe, clean water.

A series of 6km community runs or walks will take place over the course of 24 hours, accompanied in some cities by educational Water Villages and sustainably-managed concerts featuring international artists.

Warm weather in Cancun might be nice in November, but do we all need to go? Photo: Michael Strande via flickr.

So the first round of post-Copenhagen climate talks concluded last weekend in Bonn, Germany and where are we?

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In an effort to help replenish the population of gorillas in a reserve in the east part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN peacekeepers from the MONUC mission will airlift nine orphaned gorillas into the region.