Camera traps catch rare Amazon bird following peccaries
Apr 21, 2015, 11:04 am By Jeremy HanceAlthough a large, attractive bird found across Latin America, scientists know almost nothing about…Keeping up with the climate: efforts to reduce African crop losses face the extra hurdle of climate change
Apr 21, 2015, 11:01 am By Rebecca Kessler
The loss of crops to insects, rodents, and mold before they ever reach consumers is a newly…Woman defeats mine, saves wildnerness, wins $175,000
Apr 20, 2015, 6:42 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
When a huge open-pit mind threatened a pristine lake and surrounding forest in British Columbia,…Earth Day call to double native forest canopy by 2035
Apr 20, 2015, 4:46 pm By Rhett Butler
A group of prominent researchers, philanthropists, and activists are calling for a doubling of the…Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year
Apr 20, 2015, 3:31 pm By Jeremy Hance
The assassination, murder, and extrajudicial killing of environmental activists rose by 20 percent…Commercial bushmeat hunters put previously undetected pressure on Central Africa's large birds
Apr 20, 2015, 2:47 pm By Brittany Stewart
While conducting a bird survey in the Ebo Forest Reserve of Cameroon, Scottish ornithologist Robin…Farmers fall short in legal challenge to Java cement plant
Apr 20, 2015, 7:35 am By Philip Jacobson
A grassroots movement to halt construction of a cement factory and mine in Indonesia's Rembang…Growing need for deforestation-free rubber as tire demand destroys native forests
Apr 18, 2015, 11:53 am By Rhett Butler
Surging demand for natural rubber is decimating some of the world's most endangered forests, putting…Your name here: auctioning the naming rights to new species to fund conservation
Apr 17, 2015, 4:09 pm By Brittany Stewart
Meg Lowman is on a mission to save northern Ethiopia's church forests, one at a time. Numbering…Newly discovered 'punkrocker' frog changes skin texture in minutes
Apr 17, 2015, 1:57 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
In 2006, two scientists discovered a tiny new frog species in the Reserva Las Gralarias, a nature…Photo Essay: Geopolitical pawns, the fishermen of Lý Sơn, Vietnam
Apr 17, 2015, 12:41 pm By Tiffany Roufs
'When they came, what could we do?' 46-year-old fisherman Nguyên Phú asks, crouching down like a…Indonesia's public water movement consolidates after two of its biggest wins
Apr 17, 2015, 10:26 am By Philip JacobsonWith the tide of privatized water in Indonesia as close to turning since the dictator Suharto was…Zimbabwe selling baby elephant calves to China, says environmental group
Apr 17, 2015, 10:13 am By Brittany Stewart
A hundred thousand African elephants were killed by poachers for their ivory between 2010 and 2012.…Court rules deforestation of Peruvian rainforest for chocolate was legal
Apr 16, 2015, 2:06 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
A regional court in Loreto, Peru recently ruled that the clearing of more than 2,000 hectares of…Lima to restore pre-Incan aqueducts to alleviate its water crisis
Apr 16, 2015, 12:44 pm By Tiffany Roufs
To tackle a looming water crisis, the city of Lima, Peru, is planning a series of green…Empowering women in order to save the harvest
Apr 16, 2015, 12:21 pm By Tiffany Roufs
There are plenty of technological challenges to reducing food waste in sub-Saharan Africa, but a…Criticism of GAR and Wilmar African oil palm projects highlight global ‘no-deforestation' challenges
Apr 16, 2015, 3:46 am By Philip Jacobson
Despite high-profile no-deforestation policies, palm oil giants Golden Agri-Resources and Wilmar…Criticism of GAR and Wilmar African oil palm projects highlight global ‘no-deforestation' challenges
Apr 16, 2015, 3:46 am By Philip JacobsonDespite high-profile no-deforestation policies, palm oil giants Golden Agri-Resources and Wilmar…The crop-saving champion of Tanzania: Bertha Mjawa
Apr 15, 2015, 1:39 pm By Rebecca Kessler
In the late 1980s, Bertha Mjawa remembers seeing endless quantities of fruits and vegetables getting…Featured video: 'A river in dispute' documentary explores how a planned dam in the Amazon is affecting traditional communities
Apr 15, 2015, 10:50 am By Rebecca Kessler
Under the threat of losing their lands to a hydroelectric power plant project strategic to the…
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