Rio Doce grassroots response arises out of Fundão mining disaster
Jun 8, 2016, 11:40 am By Zoe Sullivan
[caption id="attachment_186922" align="alignnone" width="768"] A freight train carries ore down the…Top 10 stories you should be aware of this World Oceans Day, according to Carl Safina
Jun 8, 2016, 9:00 am By Mike Gaworecki
Marine biologist Carl Safina is a noted author and research professor at Stony Brook University,…Environmental crime reaches new record of $258b, report finds
Jun 8, 2016, 4:20 am By Daniel Pye
The value of global environmental crime has been drastically underestimated and is now thought to…How do we keep the oceans from becoming the world’s plastic trash can?
Jun 8, 2016, 12:00 am By Annie Shapiro
Plastic’s popularity in the consumer world is no doubt a result of it being a low-cost material…Timber plantations are the latest threat facing Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands
Jun 7, 2016, 3:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
The Mentawai peoples, who live on Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, off the western coast of Sumatra,…Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?
Jun 7, 2016, 2:20 pm By Mongabay[dropcap]V[/dropcap]eteran Mongabay reporter Jeremy Hance’s hard-hitting series investigating…Emmylou Harris links climate change to refugee crisis, lends her voice
Jun 7, 2016, 12:20 pm By Justin Catanoso
[caption id="attachment_186893" align="alignnone" width="768"] Emmylou Harris performs for Jesuit…Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land
Jun 6, 2016, 6:20 pm By Sue Branford
[caption id="attachment_186882" align="alignnone" width="768"] The Arara Indians were nearly…Watch video of an electric eel attack
Jun 6, 2016, 6:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
In a paper published in 1807, Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt claimed to…Two new rain frogs found in Ecuadorian Andes
Jun 6, 2016, 5:20 pm By Mike Gaworecki
Researchers with the Museum of Zoology at Catholic University of Ecuador discovered two new species…Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns
Jun 6, 2016, 4:20 pm By Claire Salisbury
[caption id="attachment_186868" align="alignnone" width="768"] River turtles in Colombia. Turtles,…China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats
Jun 6, 2016, 1:40 pm By Wang Yan
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n late April, forest rangers caught Chen Yunxia, a young woman in her twenties,…Unclear if France will revisit ‘discriminatory’ palm oil tax
Jun 5, 2016, 10:40 pm By Loren Bell
Last month, the French Senate removed a proposed tax on palm oil from their version of the country's…10 reasons to be optimistic for forests on World Environment Day
Jun 4, 2016, 9:00 pm By Rhett A Butler
It's easy to be pessimistic about the state of the world's forests. Rates of forest loss remain…Ignoring scientists, Poland begins logging famous primeval forest
Jun 3, 2016, 3:40 pm By Jeremy Hance
The quiet of Europe's last old-growth lowland forest is being interrupted by the whirr whirr whirr…Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists
Jun 3, 2016, 2:40 pm By Milton López Tarabochia
In less than a week, Peru will have a new president and, until now, the environment has not been one…1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill
Jun 3, 2016, 1:00 pm By Zoe Sullivan
[caption id="attachment_186826" align="alignnone" width="768"] Some of the horrific damage done to…International treaty targeting illegal fishing takes effect
Jun 3, 2016, 12:20 pm By Alexandra Ossola
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] United Nations treaty aimed at preventing illegal fishing will enter into force…PanEco resigns from RSPO over ‘sheer level of inaction’
Jun 3, 2016, 5:40 am By Philip Jacobson
One of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s disgruntled NGO members officially called it quits…Indonesia’s Salim Group linked to ‘secret’ palm oil concessions in West Papua
Jun 3, 2016, 1:00 am By Daniel Pye
One of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates, the Salim Group, has likely acquired four palm oil…
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