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By Justin McCurry4 September 2014 Tokyo (theguardian.com) – Japan is expected to spark a fresh round of diplomatic tension after revealing plans to bypass a UN ban on the slaughter of whales in the Antarctic with a new, scaled-down "scientific"...

By MARIAN WILKINSON ENVIRONMENT EDITOR, October 31, 2009 LARGE numbers of whales, dolphins, turtles and sea birds are feeding in waters polluted by the massive oil spill off the West Australian coast and are likely to be at ''immediate risk'',...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — More than 80 percent of the millions of Pakistanis left homeless by the country's worst floods are still without shelter, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday. The United Nations is to launch a fresh appeal...