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Two environmental activists targeted the original Magna Carta in the United Kingdom during a protest seeking to raise awareness of climate change. Rev. Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher, were both arrested after they attacked a glass case containing the historical document at the British Library in London on Friday, London’s Metropolitan Police said. A …

After nearly a decade, Nicaragua’s congress finally canceled on Wednesday a controversial canal concession granted to a Chinese businessman that critics said endangered the environment and threatened to displace rural communities. Despite a symbolic “groundbreaking” in 2014, no work was done on the canal that was to link Nicaragua’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. At one point, crews broke ground on …

Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to stop the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution. Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers and lakes, according to the United Nations Environment …

On this day in history, April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated — ushering in a host of new environmental legislation. The idea for the observation “Earth Day” originated with Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, who had “long been concerned about the deteriorating environment in the United States,” says EarthDay.org. “Inspired by the student anti-war movement, …

Earth Day is one of the most popular and widespread nonreligious holidays in the world. Although the event was primarily based in the United States, by 2009 the coordinators for Earth Day helped gain recognition from the United Nations. Earth Day has played a key role in passing essential laws that protect wildlife and the environment, such as the Clean …

Residents of a small Russian city were startled after a small river suddenly turned bright green recently, according to local reports. Locals are calling for tests amid toxic pollution fears in the waterway in Penza, located 400 miles southeast of Moscow. “A poisonous green creek on Gagarin Street worries residents of Penza,” the Mash media outlet reported. “The local administration …

All around the world, big solar and wind projects are being rejected. From rural England to the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, local communities are telling alt-energy developers to take their projects and put them where the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. As I have documented in the Renewable Rejection Database, there have been at least 639 rejections …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport began Wednesday amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit. Crews with California-based Curtin Maritime will remove nearly 3 million cubic yards (76 million cubic feet) of marine floor to open the San Juan Bay to larger vessels including tankers …

Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once sustained are simply no more. NASA IMAGES REVEAL SHOCKING SCALE OF ARAL SEA DISASTER But a scattering of small towns and villages remain. Some have as few as 10 people. And …

Farmers threw beets and sprayed manure at police on Tuesday as hundreds of tractors again sealed off streets close to the European Union headquarters, where agriculture ministers sought to ease a crisis that has led to months of protests across the 27-member bloc. The farmers are protesting what they see as excessive red tape and unfair trading practices as well …