The last of her kind: centennial of the death of the world's last passenger pigeon
Sep 1, 2014, 5:21 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
They once numbered in the billions, flying 60 miles per hour in flocks that darkened the sky. But on…25 primate pictures for World Primate Day
Sep 1, 2014, 4:51 pm By Rhett Butler
September 1 is World Primate Day, a designation intended to raise awareness about apes, monkeys, and…'A global tragedy' in the making? Thailand plans highway expansion through World Heritage Site
Aug 29, 2014, 6:25 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Dong-Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex (DPKY-FC) is the largest tract of surviving forest in central…More trouble with tar sands: oil extraction leading to big forest loss in Alberta
Aug 29, 2014, 2:51 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Tar sands operations have been the subject of much controversy over the past few years as expected…Indonesia's national airline to start using palm oil biofuel
Aug 28, 2014, 7:43 pm By Rhett ButlerIndonesia's national airline, Garuda Indonesia, says it will start mixing palm oil-based biofuel…Authorities stop 'greatest destroyers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest'
Aug 28, 2014, 3:31 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
A criminal organization involved in the illicit deforestation of large portions of Brazil's forests…Saving the Atlantic Forest would cost less than 'Titanic'
Aug 28, 2014, 3:19 pm By Jeremy Hance
Want to save the world's most imperiled biodiversity hotspot? You just need a down payment of $198…Indonesian authorities bust porcupine-smuggling ring
Aug 28, 2014, 1:31 pm By Rhett Butler
Police in Langkat, North Sumatera, Indonesia, seized 55 porcupines from smugglers preparing to ship…Meeting an Illegal Logger
Aug 27, 2014, 7:55 pm By Tiffany Roufs
'I make six times the amount of money logging as I would working my small plot of land or even…Where should the roads go? New map offers a solution to the 'Pandora's Box of environmental problems'
Aug 27, 2014, 6:35 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Roads make it possible to bring goods to market, to get to the office, to log a forest, to hunt its…Invasion of the lionfish: new research finds the situation may be worse than we thought
Aug 27, 2014, 2:57 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
You may have recently read the controversial story on invasive lionfish research involving Dr. Zack…The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua's big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?
Aug 27, 2014, 2:52 pm By Jeremy Hance
A hundred years ago, the Panama Canal reshaped global geography. Now a new project, spearheaded by a…How do we save the world's vanishing old-growth forests?
Aug 26, 2014, 4:18 pm By Jeremy Hance
There's nothing in the world like a primary forest, which has never been industrially logged or…What lies within, we may never know: deforestation threatening Sulawesi’s unique wildlife
Aug 26, 2014, 3:35 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
For 10 million years the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been disconnected from other landforms,…Can it be stopped? Ghana's forests 'could completely disappear in less than 25 years'
Aug 25, 2014, 3:43 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Ghana contains forests that are biologically unique and important both for the wildlife they contain…Featured video: new Netflix documentary highlights the work of Sylvia Earle to save the oceans
Aug 25, 2014, 10:56 am By Jeremy Hance
Sylvia Earle is one of the ocean's staunchest defenders. A National Geographic Society Explorer in…Scientists honor missing activists by naming a spider after him
Aug 24, 2014, 9:32 pm By Rhett Butler
Swiss researchers have honored the memory of a missing indigenous peoples activist by naming an…Scientists name new endangered species after the company that will decide its fate
Aug 24, 2014, 1:33 pm By Jeremy Hance
Scientists have discovered a new snail species near a cement quarry in Malaysia, which as far as…Indonesia to hear indigenous peoples' grievances on land disputes
5:56pm By Rhett Butler
Public hearings into alleged violations of indigenous peoples' land rights will open next week in…An uncertain future: world's last wild Siberian tigers threatened by iIllegal logging, global warming, disease (PART II)
3:37pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Every year, between 20 and 30 tigers are poached. Illegal logging is reducing the tigers' habitat,…
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