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Sweden

A mystery virus has killed 600 seals off the country’s south coast, raising fears of a repeat of the 1988 plague that cut Europe’s seal population by half.

Russia

While media attention has focused on fires in the US Midwest, 7000 square kilometres of Siberian forest has gone up in flames since February.

Uganda

President Yoweri Museveni vows to defy environmentalists and go ahead with a $550 million hydroelectric dam at Bujagali on the Nile that will drown the Bujagali rapids below Lake Victoria.

US

Citing fears of a terrorist attack, Californian authorities say people within 16 kilometres of…

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