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When Marine Ecologists released the Ocean Health Index for the first time in 2012, it was a majestically ambitious achievement. The index, born of a collaboration among dozens of scientists, economists and environmental managers at the National Cente ...

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The EU has signed a timber trade agreement with Liberia, but buying from its deeply corrupt logging industry is bad for the country's development and worse for its rainforest. Tell the EU to keep timber from Liberia?s fundamentally illegal logging co ...

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Development organizations and environmental groups reacted with dismay to President Donald Trump?s decision to leave the landmark Paris Agreement, warning that the exit would weaken the United States? standing as a global development leader, and, ult ...