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Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is running for reelection in the northeastern-most state of Australia. Credit: Annastacia Palaszczuk/Twitter

Premier of Australia’s Queensland Promises to Veto Adani Coal Mine Funding

Adam Morton and Karl Mathiesen, Climate Home News 04/11/2017

Annastacia Palaszczuk reversed her previous support for Gautam Adani’s...

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US Pushes India on Trade Deficit, Price Caps on Medical Devices

Seema Sirohi 31/10/2017

The Trade Policy Forum – the first such meeting...

Protest in memory of Berta Cáceres, assassinated in 2016. Credit: Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, used under Creative Commons licence (CC BY 2.0).

Beleaguered Environmental Activists in Honduras Face Threat From the Country’s Law

Melissa Vida 29/10/2017

According to the criminal code law, organisers of demonstrations...

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross stands behind US President Donald Trump, who speaks at the Minority Enterprise Development Week White House awards ceremony, at the White House in Washington, US ,October 24, 2017. Credit: Reuters

Donald Trump Declares Opioids a US Public Health Emergency

Yasmeen Abutaleb and Jeff Mason 27/10/2017

Trump's declaration will redirect federal resources and loosen regulations...

A vial of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and an information sheet is seen at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts February 26, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder

Global Measles Deaths Fall, But Still a Long Way to Go on Elimination Goals

Reuters 27/10/2017

Annual deaths from measles dropped below 100,000 worldwide last...

Leaders of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) Angela Merkel and Christian Social Union (CSU) Bavaria State Premier Horst Seehofer are seen on a balcony of German Parliamentary Society offices before the exploratory talks about forming a new coalition government held by CDU/CSU in Berlin, Germany, October 26, 2017. Credit: Reuters

German Coalition Talks Stumble Due to Deep Divisions on Immigration, Climate Policy

Andreas Rinke and Emma Thomasson 27/10/2017

Immigration was the most divisive topic, with many conservatives...

Europeans inspect statues over a century after first contact. Carlo Bottillega 1827

Easter Island – A Sustainable Society That Has Been Falsely Blamed for Its Own Demise

Catrine Jarman 25/10/2017

How did Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, carry out...