Company chops down rainforest to produce 'sustainable' chocolate
Jan 20, 2015, 4:59 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Aiming to be the world’s largest purveyor of sustainable cacao, a company is developing a…India's tiger population up by more than 500 animals in four years
Jan 20, 2015, 1:33 pm By Jeremy Hance
The tiger is in major trouble. In 1900, the global population was over 100,000 animals; today, it is…Scandal and intrigue overshadow environment at the Simandou mine in Guinea
Jan 20, 2015, 9:29 am By Tiffany Roufs
Critically Endangered chimpanzees stand to lose their home over giant iron mine in West Africa. When…Indonesia's moratorium not enough to achieve emissions reduction target
Jan 19, 2015, 7:15 pm By Rhett Butler
When Indonesia's former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared a moratorium in May 2012 on the…High deforestation rates in Malaysian states hit by flooding
Jan 19, 2015, 5:55 pm By Rhett Butler
Five states hard hit by flooding last month in Malaysia had high rates of forest loss in recent…Facing legacy of deforestation and corruption, Sarawak may cease granting new logging concessions
Jan 18, 2015, 7:13 pm By Rhett Butler
Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem says his government may stop granting new logging concessions,…Rising meat consumption pushes farming past deforestation as global warming driver
Jan 18, 2015, 6:52 pm By Rhett Butler
Agriculture has surpasses deforestation and land use change as a driver of greenhouse gas emissions,…Fake Doritos ad pressures Pepsi over palm oil policy
Jan 18, 2015, 6:29 pm By Rhett Butler
A dispute between environmentalists and PepsiCo over the food company's palm oil sourcing policy is…Even with no El Nino, 2014 was the warmest year on record
Jan 18, 2015, 1:31 pm By Jeremy Hance
On Friday both NASA and NOAA announced that last year—2014—was the warmest on record. The year…Tree climbing as a tool to build respect for forests
Jan 16, 2015, 2:46 pm By Rhett Butler
The bulk of life in the rainforest is found the leafy layers of the canopy. But little was known…Sulawesi village seeks protection for sacred forest threatened by development
Jan 16, 2015, 12:50 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Home to some 400 fishermen, Manurung village appears unremarkable at first glance: quiet houses…Fishing industry could lose up to $41 billion due to climate change
Jan 16, 2015, 10:56 am By Tiffany Roufs
Climate change is already having a severe impact on the atmosphere and oceans around the world.…Amazon tribe attacks oilfield in Ecuador
Jan 15, 2015, 6:07 pm By Rhett Butler
Indigenous leaders are calling for the release of six tribesmen implicated in a raid on an oilfield…Ocean's 15: meet the species that have vanished forever from our seas
Jan 15, 2015, 5:32 pm By Jeremy Hance
In the last 500 years, the oceans have suffered far fewer extinctions than on land—at least that…Empty seas? Scientists warn of an industrialized ocean
Jan 15, 2015, 2:01 pm By Jeremy Hance
This is obvious, but still important: humans are not a marine species. Even as we have colonized…No experience necessary: how studying tamarins led to an innovative research organization in the Amazon
Jan 15, 2015, 1:43 pm By Tiffany Roufs
While conducting doctoral research on tamarin reproductive biology in the Peruvian Amazon, Mrinalini…Farmers help restore degraded forests in Sulawesi
Jan 15, 2015, 11:54 am By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Irda tends to his two-hectare timber plantation in Pamulukkang Forest at the base of Tanete Kindo…Amazon gold rush destroying huge swaths of rainforest
Jan 14, 2015, 1:20 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
The rainforests of South America face many threats. The deforestation occurring on the continent is…Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?
Jan 14, 2015, 11:55 am By Jeremy Hance
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa may have been the result of complex economic and agricultural…Road building spree hurts Amazon birds
Jan 14, 2015, 10:34 am By Brittany Stewart
A city-dwelling crow in Japan strategically drops a nut near a crosswalk into moving traffic. The…
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