Photos: the people of Indonesia’s marine protected areas
10:40pm By Monagbay.com
Indonesia: a vast archipelago, the world's largest maritime nation, home to the richest marine…Sharks have personalities just like you and me
4:00pm By Mike GaworeckiPersonality in humans defines who we are. It is the unique combination of qualities and traits that…Rising CO2 is reducing nutritional value of food, impacting ecosystems
4:00pm By Claire Salisbury[caption id="attachment_186754" align="alignnone" width="768"] Rice fields in Kashmir, India. Staple…Pictures: the top 10 new species of 2016?
Tue 10:40pm By Mongabay.com
Last week the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry released…Cambodia declares new national park, plans to reintroduce tigers
Tue 8:20pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Over the past 15 years, Cambodia has lost enough tree cover to fill the U.S. state of Connecticut as…Here’s what’s driving deforestation in South America
Tue 5:00pm By Mike Gaworecki
Halting deforestation is such a critical part of combating climate change that it was enshrined in…New Rio Olympic golf course harmed environment, say critics
Tue 12:20pm By (Paloma Savedra contributed to this story)Carolina Torres
[caption id="attachment_186716" align="alignnone" width="768"] Rio's new Olympic golf course. Photo…SE Asia’s damaged peat swamps could release 8.7 gigatons of CO2
Tue 6:00am By Loren Bell
Clear-cut rainforests and homeless orangutans make for powerful images, but it's what you don't see…Reestablishing a wild population of American burying beetles
May 30, 2016, 1:40 pm By Mike Gaworecki
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden released 110 pairs of endangered American burying beetles at…Study suggests trees sleep at night
May 30, 2016, 11:00 am By Mike Gaworecki
We’ve known for centuries that plants are governed by a circadian rhythm just as much as humans:…New Cambodian protected forest offers hope for endangered wildlife
May 27, 2016, 7:20 pm By Daniel Pye
A new protected area in northern Cambodia has raised hopes for the future of five critically…Scientists puzzled by slowing of Atlantic conveyor belt, warn of abrupt climate change
May 27, 2016, 1:40 pm By Mike Gaworecki
Scientists in the Labrador Sea recently made the first retrieval of data from one of 53 lines moored…The key to tropical conservation: scrap big projects, invest in people
May 27, 2016, 12:20 pm By Liz Kimbrough
[caption id="attachment_186688" align="alignnone" width="768"] A double wattled cassowary. Dr. Andy…Indonesia’s birds being wiped out by pet trade
May 27, 2016, 2:00 am By Shreya Dasgupta
Birds are hugely popular pets in Indonesia. A 2011 study found, for instance, that more than…Video: Critically Endangered monkey ‘chatters’ for camera
May 27, 2016, 1:20 am By Shreya DasguptaThese monkeys seem to love "selfies". In 2011, a female black-crested macaque (Macaca nigra) took…BREAKING: Norway commits to zero deforestation
May 26, 2016, 1:20 pm By Mike Gaworecki
Norway is a leader in funding forest conservation around the world (see here, here, and here, for…Thousands of Southeast Asian newts being collected from the wild for pet trade
May 26, 2016, 3:00 am By Shreya Dasgupta
A little-known group of amphibians — the Southeast Asian newts — are in high demand as pets, a…An improbable future for Nicaragua’s inter-oceanic canal
May 25, 2016, 5:20 pm By Adam SteinHector CastanedaKaren Masters
Scientists have warned that a controversial proposal to construct an inter-oceanic canal through…Peruvian gov’t affirms illegal plantation activity in Amazon rainforest
May 25, 2016, 5:20 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Yesterday, Peru's forest authority issued a public statement confirming illegal actions on the part…The Borneo rainbow toad has been missing for 87 years — until now
May 25, 2016, 3:40 pm By Mike GaworeckiDisease, habitat loss, and rising global temperatures are taking their toll on the world’s…
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