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ROME (AFP) – The environmentalist mayor of a small town in southern Italy was shot dead in what a magistrate said on Monday was an execution by the Camorra, the powerful mafia syndicate operating around Naples.

BUCHAREST (AFP) – Over 70 environmental NGOs including the WWF called Monday for the sacking of Romania’s new agriculture minister for his links to the genetically modified crop industry.

ATHENS (AFP) – Four Greek wildlife groups on Monday criticised as “misguided” the mass release of thousands of mink into the wild from fur farms in northwestern Greece by an animal rights protest group.

LONDON (Reuters) – Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said on Monday, arguing for greater investment in water storage.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tropical storm Hermine has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and warnings have been issued from Tampico, Mexico to the Baffin Bay on the south Texas coast, the National Hurricane Center said on Monday.

CUMBRE DE ALASKA, Guatemala (Reuters) – A massive landslide buried a crowd trying to dig out a bus from deep mud on Sunday, killing at least 22 people, with dozens more feared dead, as torrential rains battered Guatemala.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A massive landslide buried a crowd trying to dig out a bus from deep mud on Sunday, killing at least 22 people with dozens more feared dead, as torrential rains battered Guatemala.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – At least 40 people were missing in Guatemala on Sunday after a massive landslide buried up to 100 trying to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains battered the country.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A massive landslide buried up to 100 people in Guatemala when they tried to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains battered the country.

The BP well which leaked more than four million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico poses no further risk to the environment, according to an official heading the clean-up.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Increasing water pollution and dwindling water quality around the globe will be the main focus as around 2,500 experts begin gathering in Stockholm Sunday for the 20th edition of the World Water Week.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed in Guatemala on Saturday, including a dozen on a bus that was buried in a landslide, as heavy rains lashed the Central American nation and southern Mexico.

HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) – Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) – Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) – Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.