Two years after coming into effect, Australia kills carbon tax
Jul 17, 2014, 4:12 pm By Jeremy Hance
In a significant victory for Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the Australian Senate has voted to repeal…Surrounded by deforestation, critically endangered gorilla hangs on by a thread
Jul 17, 2014, 12:58 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
The mountain forests at the Nigeria-Cameroon border are home to one of the rarest and most…Scientists can now accurately count polar bears...from space
Jul 17, 2014, 9:12 am By Jeremy Hance
Polar bears are big animals. As the world's largest land predators, a single male can weigh over a…30% of Borneo's rainforests destroyed since 1973
Jul 16, 2014, 5:09 pm By Rhett Butler
More than 30 percent of Borneo's rainforests have been destroyed over the past forty years due to…Will the last ape found be the first to go? Bonobos' biggest refuge under threat (part 1)
Jul 16, 2014, 4:58 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Bonobos have been declining sharply over the past few decades. In response, several non-profit…Please, don't hate us: celebrating World Snake Day!
Jul 16, 2014, 11:22 am By Jeremy Hance
Okay, so some snakes are so venomous they can kill you in 30 minutes (the inland taipan). And, yes,…Fishing for coherent regulations along Fiji's coral reefs
Jul 16, 2014, 11:18 am By Tiffany Roufs
Will Fiji implement a much-needed update to its fisheries laws before the September election? If you…The history of the contentious number behind zero deforestation commitments for palm oil
Jul 15, 2014, 4:03 pm By Rhett Butler
It was just after lunch, Monday, November 8th 2010 when it all began. At the time, it was innocent…On track to 'go beyond the critical point': Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip
Jul 15, 2014, 2:18 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
During the latter half of Sri Lanka's civl war, between 1990 and 2005, Sri Lanka suffered one of the…Coastal wildlife paradise declared biosphere reserve in Argentina (PHOTOS)
Jul 15, 2014, 1:38 pm By Jeremy Hance
Conservationists are celebrating the announcement that UNESCO has dubbed Argentina's Península…'Stop using the bloody things': pesticides linked to bee collapse now blamed for bird declines
Jul 15, 2014, 10:28 am By Jeremy Hance
In recent years the evidence has piled up that neonicotinoids—a hugely popular group of…Attack of the parasite plants: vines taking over forests in Panama
Jul 14, 2014, 5:23 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
A worrying trend has emerged in tropical forests: lianas, woody long-stemmed vines, are increasingly…Too much of a good thing: fertilizer 'one of the three major drivers of biodiversity loss this century'
Jul 14, 2014, 1:04 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
The world’s grasslands are being destabilized by fertilization, according to a paper recently…558 dead: rhino poaching in South Africa on track to exceed last year's record
Jul 14, 2014, 12:47 pm By Jeremy Hance
Poachers have butchered 558 rhinos in South Africa so far this year, approximately a hundred more…Green under siege: world's biodiversity hotspots 85 percent impacted
Jul 14, 2014, 12:07 pm By Jeremy Hance
The world's 35 biodiversity hotspots—which harbor 75 percent of the planet's endangered land…Forests as important as farming for some rural communities
Jul 14, 2014, 9:40 am By Rhett Butler
Forests have long been assumed to provide an important source of income for many of the world’s…New palm oil sustainability manifesto met with criticism from environmentalists
Jul 11, 2014, 4:45 pm By Rhett Butler
This week several palm oil giants announced new environmental criteria for palm oil production. The…Downturn in shade-grown coffee putting forests, wildlife, people at risk
Jul 11, 2014, 2:15 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Growing coffee in the shade of forests allows native vegetation to persist, thereby reducing the…DRC deforestation escalates despite resource shortages, protests, rape, homocide
Jul 10, 2014, 5:31 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Road construction, the promise of employment, and the conversion of forest to farmland – the…Good intentions, collateral damage: forest conservation may be hurting grasslands
Jul 10, 2014, 12:28 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Trees absorb CO2 and trap carbon molecules, and countless are lost as forests are felled around the…
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