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Johnny Langenheim explains how an innovative method is sustaining corals and why on World Oceans Day we need to pledge for more such projects

The eyes of the world will be focused on the health of our oceans when World Oceans Day is celebrated on Friday, 8 June

Cod, haddock and herring could be fished in more numbers, but conservationists say policy will damage stocks

LONDON, June 8 (UPI) — Golden and sea eagle populations have been declining in the British Isles for 1,500 years because of human activity, a report released Friday said.

Rachel Hall was part of a Unicef UK group that prepared a list of priorities that young people want to be taken up at the summit. She explains what they expect from world leaders

WASHINGTON, Jun 7, 2012 (IPS) – The World Bank this week released its new environment strategy for the next decade, 2012 through 2022, saying the policy framework was crafted in response to “calls from governments and the private sector for new approaches to development in light of unprecedented environmental challenges”.

Elephant numbers in areas surveyed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Central Africa halved between 2006 and 2011, hinting at the carnage wrought by the surging commercial ivory trade and demonstrating a need to boost protection efforts, said the Bronx Zoo-based conservation group.

Denmark’s Baltic island of Bornholm has become a new home for the European bison, an endangered species that was almost wiped out in the last century.

Climate change, ageing plantations and a shortage of young farmers risk strangling Africa’s cocoa industry, a top official from a bloc of 10 producer nations said.

Florida’s highest court must decide if the Miami-Dade County public defender’s office can decline cases because of its overwhelming workload. BY JIM SAUNDERS – THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE — Grappling with whether poor people are …