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Survey shows 30 percent decline in African savannah elephant population

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Researchers say the dramatic drop, revealed by a three-year aerial study, is largely due to poaching.

Russia grants bail to most of the Greenpeace activists charged with hooliganism

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Environmentalists and coal interests fight it out in a small Washington State election

Environment
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