<p>A plan to build a subway tunnel under Singapore's largest patch of primary rainforest has drawn sharp protests from environmental groups and activists who say it could irreversibly damage the habitats of hundreds of plant and animal species. They are appealing to the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to re-route the 50 km (31 mile) Cross Island Line around the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, rather than through it.

<p>A growing number of pollinator species worldwide are&nbsp;being driven toward extinction by diverse pressures, many of them human-made, threatening&nbsp;millions of livelihoods and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food supplies, according to&nbsp;the first global assessment by the&nbsp;Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released February 26.

<p>A growing number of pollinator species worldwide are&nbsp;being driven toward extinction by diverse pressures, many of them human-made, threatening&nbsp;millions of livelihoods and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food supplies, according to&nbsp;the first global assessment by the&nbsp;Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released February 26.

<p>A growing number of pollinator species worldwide are&nbsp;being driven toward extinction by diverse pressures, many of them human-made, threatening&nbsp;millions of livelihoods and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food supplies, according to&nbsp;the first global assessment by the&nbsp;Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released February 26.

<p>On February 24, the United States won a ruling against India at the World Trade Organization after challenging rules on the origin of solar cells and solar modules used in India's national solar power program. In a statement, the U.S. Trade Representative's office called the ruling a significant victory that would hasten the spread of solar energy across the world and support clean-energy jobs in the United States.