Good news! Some corals show surprising resilience to ocean acidification
Oct 6, 2015, 12:56 am By Shreya Dasgupta[caption id="attachment_149038" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Yellow finger coral (Porites…Deforestation declines in the Amazon rainforest
Oct 5, 2015, 10:30 pm By Rhett ButlerDestruction of primary forests across the Amazon basin has declined significantly since the 2000s,…Researchers look to the past to predict future wildfires in a warming world
Oct 5, 2015, 6:49 pm By Mike GaworeckiSome of the largest wildfires in US history have occurred in recent years, and 2015 has so far been…Photos: Hundreds of new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas
Oct 5, 2015, 1:32 pm By Mike GaworeckiThe Eastern Himalayas in South Asia is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, and now there are…California bans ivory
Oct 5, 2015, 12:40 pm By Rhett ButlerThe state of California has officially banned the sale of virtually all elephant ivory and rhino…Amazing but overlooked bettongs: the case for Australia’s small hopper
Oct 5, 2015, 12:20 pm By Glenn SchererMost people know and love marsupials like kangaroos and koalas, but some members of this infraclass…Cacti more threatened than mammals and birds
Oct 5, 2015, 11:30 am By Shreya Dasgupta[caption id="attachment_149101" align="aligncenter" width="896"] Eriosyce chilensis found in Chile…Test-driving an origami microscope
Oct 5, 2015, 10:49 am By Caleb O'BrienWhat costs pennies, fits in your pocket, and can illuminate a world invisible to the naked eye? The…The Manu road in Peru: separate paths of development and conservation
Oct 5, 2015, 10:48 am By Ruxandra GuidiThe residents of the districts of Fitzcarrald and Manu, in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern…Malaysia PM turns up heat on Indonesia as Australian firm faces fires probe
Oct 5, 2015, 7:42 am By Philip JacobsonInternational pressure on Indonesia to address haze pollution escalated on Monday after Malaysia’s…Hidden cameras, prosecutions, and passion: confronting the corruption at the heart of Africa’s illegal wildlife trade
Oct 4, 2015, 7:00 am By Sue PalminteriTackling the illegal trade in wildlife requires tremendous concern for the welfare of other species…HORN looks at rhino poaching through a different lens
Oct 3, 2015, 2:20 pm By Rhett ButlerHORN sheds light on South Africa’s rhino poaching crisis from a different angle In 2011, filmmaker…Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains at a 500-year low
Oct 2, 2015, 5:50 pm By Mike GaworeckiOn April 1, California Governor Jerry Brown stood in a Sierra Nevada meadow atop parched, brown…Road creeps into Peru’s Sierra del Divisor as it awaits national park designation
Oct 2, 2015, 3:58 pm By Morgan Erickson-DavisAn unauthorized logging road has encroached in the past three months on the border of what could…WCTC update: tech designs advance in competition to beat wildlife crime
Oct 2, 2015, 3:08 pm By Sue PalminteriWhat kinds of technology can help reduce wildlife crime? Last week, the Wildlife Crime Tech…Brazil to cut emissions 300 million tons by 2030
Oct 2, 2015, 2:22 pm By Rhett ButlerBrazil pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 300 million metric tons per year by 2030,…‘Catastrophic failure': World’s indigenous communities lack rights to three-quarters of their land
Oct 2, 2015, 12:38 pm By Morgan Erickson-DavisAround 1.5 billion people worldwide are members of indigenous communities, many of whom depend on…Noise: an invisible threat that harms wildlife, degrades habitats
Oct 2, 2015, 11:27 am By Shreya Dasgupta[caption id="attachment_148857" align="aligncenter" width="896"] MacGillivray's Warbler, one of the…‘Maybe that’s why there’s so many fires’: Was a peat swamp illegitimately stripped of protected status in Indonesia?
Oct 2, 2015, 7:27 am By Philip Jacobson[dropcap type="4"]A[/dropcap] massive peat dome on Borneo’s southern coast is under threat from an…One year after New York Declaration on Forests, less progress on cattle and soy than on palm oil and timber
Oct 1, 2015, 6:50 pm By Mike GaworeckiPalm oil is one of the most popular vegetable oils in the world, though much of it comes with…
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