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Three-quarters of the trash found off Australian beaches is plastic, as it warned that the rubbish is entangling and being swallowed by wildlife.

• 15 сентября 2014, 13:43

The Western Australia government said it would abandon its controversial catch-and-kill shark policy.

• 12 сентября 2014, 15:02

Soldiers were battling Sunday to rescue thousands of people trapped by Indian Kashmir's worst flooding for half a century.

• 08 сентября 2014, 10:41

Hawaii's Big Island has declared a state of emergency as lava from an active volcano threatens nearby homes, which could be evacuated within days.

• 06 сентября 2014, 13:38

Australia's big kangaroos are thriving, but wildlife campaigners hold fears for their smaller cousins.

• 06 сентября 2014, 12:53

A Chinese factory that supplies Apple with parts has been operating with violations of basic standards for health, safety and environmental protection.

• 05 сентября 2014, 14:57

The outgoing head of the fisheries management body has warned that some tuna stocks were now so low they should not be fished.

• 03 сентября 2014, 14:38

Fishermen used shovels, wheel-carts and trucks in western Mexico to pull tons of dead fish out of a lagoon.

• 02 сентября 2014, 11:24

Fourteen animal rights activists have been detained on the Faroe island of Sandoy in the North Atlantic while trying to stop a controversial dolphin hunt.

• 01 сентября 2014, 11:03

The expedition dedicated to Kazakh scholar Shoqan Walikhanov has made the last observations on the way from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan.

• 01 сентября 2014, 02:52

A volcano erupted in eastern Papua New Guinea, spewing rocks and ash into the air.

• 29 августа 2014, 13:29

In Kazakhstan's Mangystau Oblast, mullets wash ashore of the Caspian Sea.

• 26 августа 2014, 12:46

Thieves who tapped an oil pipeline in northern Mexico caused a spill that contaminated the San Juan River, a key irrigation source for farmers.

• 22 августа 2014, 12:09

The scaly-skinned pangolin is under threat in Gabon as demand for the small mammal surges in Asia, where it is used in traditional medicine.

• 19 августа 2014, 11:33

Ramona Yesenia stood waiting for water to replace the municipal supply contaminated by a chemical spill

• 16 августа 2014, 14:00

Tourists and locals braced for double trouble in Hawaii on Thursday as a rare pair of hurricanes took aim at the holiday paradise.

• 08 августа 2014, 14:42

Kazakhstan’s National Hydrometeorological service reported a high level of hazardous air pollutants that appeared to look like a fog.

• 08 августа 2014, 13:21

Russian Troitskaya GRES power plant has been fined $35 thousand by Kazakhstani environmentalists.

• 05 августа 2014, 16:56

Kazakh Ministry and UNDP have shipped 80 tonnes of hazardous sovtol from Kazakhstan to France and disposed of it there.

• 04 августа 2014, 14:41

A fire raging in California's Yosemite National Park advanced, threatening a grove of famous giant sequoia trees.

• 01 августа 2014, 18:24