China
The last 100 Yangtze River dolphins are to be captured and released into a newly created nature reserve in an eleventh-hour bid to save the species.
Norway
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A plan to dump liquid carbon dioxide in an ocean trench off the Norwegian coast this summer is a breach of European anti-pollution treaties, say environmentalists. The project aims to reduce global warming.
Singapore
Customs officials have seized more than 500 elephant tusks smuggled out of Zambia en route to Japan. The haul is thought to be the worst breach yet of the global ban on ivory trade designed to protect the African elephant.
Peru
A thousand peasant farmers marched on Lima, the capital, demanding a say in the country鈥檚 fast-growing mining industry. They claim that mining interests are taking their land and poisoning their animals and children.
Germany
Some 10,000 people took the plunge in the first International Elbe Swimming Day to celebrate a massive clean-up of the river. The Elbe drains the industrial heartland of what was East Germany. Forty species of fish have returned in the past decade.
Zambia
The government has lifted a ban on genetically modified maize, allowing in shipments of American food aid as famine fears intensify.
United States
Construction of the country鈥檚 first dump for high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, can go ahead after a vote in the US Senate removed the last legislative hurdle.
New Zealand
A scandal over how ministers covered up the illegal planting of thousands of tonnes of genetically modified maize seed is dominating campaigning for the 27 July general election.