The mystery of the disappearing elephant tusk
Oct 30, 2013, 11:40 am By Tiffany Roufs
Give it a few thousand years, and tusks could completely disappear from the Asian elephant (Elephas…Belo Monte dam suspended
Oct 29, 2013, 7:58 pm By Rhett Butler
Construction on Belo Monte, Brazil's largest dam, was again halted by a federal court due to…Scientists identify individual lizards by their irises
Oct 29, 2013, 4:50 pm By Jeremy Hance
Institutions and governments have been scanning human irises for years to verify one's…Greenpeace: APP making 'encouraging' progress on zero deforestation commitment
Oct 29, 2013, 3:54 pm By Rhett Butler
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an Indonesian forestry giant once notorious for destroying rainforests and…Mining Road Plan Threatens Forest Restoration Project in Indonesia
Oct 29, 2013, 2:02 pm By Rhett Butler
A plan for a coal transport road continues to threaten a project to restore one of the last…50,000 km of roads built across Brazilian Amazon in 3 years
Oct 29, 2013, 1:41 pm By Rhett Butler
Roads are rapidly expanding across the Brazilian Amazon opening up once remote rainforests to…New campaign: hey China, stop killing the 'pandas of Africa'
Oct 29, 2013, 1:40 pm By Jeremy Hance
A new public-service campaign in China will ask potential ivory and rhino horn buyers to see the…790 rhinos poached in South Africa this year
Oct 29, 2013, 9:57 am By Rhett Butler
790 rhinos have been poached in South Africa this year, nearly a fifth higher than last year's…'Lost' bird rediscovered in New Caledonia along with 16 potentially new species (photos)
Oct 29, 2013, 9:43 am By Jeremy Hance
In early 2011, Conservation International (CI) dubbed the forests of New Caledonia the second-most…With training, local communities can accurately and cost-effectively measure forest carbon
Oct 28, 2013, 8:37 pm By Rhett Butler
Provided two to three days of training, forest communities can accurately and cost-effectively…America's growing inequality helped scuttle the global climate change initiative
Oct 28, 2013, 6:52 pm By Jeremy Hance
The link between good economic policy and climate change mitigation is instigated by policies such…Gold mining in the Amazon rainforest surges 400%
Oct 28, 2013, 3:36 pm By Rhett Butler
The extent of gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has surged 400 percent since 1999 due to rocketing…Shanghai to ban coal by 2017
Oct 28, 2013, 3:24 pm By Jeremy HanceChina's largest city and one of the world's biggest, Shanghai, is set to ban coal burning in just…New to science: 2 lizards, 1 frog discovered on Australian expedition (pictures)
Oct 28, 2013, 2:09 pm By Rhett Butler
Researchers from James Cook University and National Geographic discovered three new herp species —…Stuffed tigers send two soldiers to jail in Indonesia
Oct 28, 2013, 1:19 pm By Rhett Butler
A military court in Indonesia’s Aceh province has jailed two soldiers for illegally possessing two…First study of little-known mammal reveals climate change threat
Oct 28, 2013, 9:40 am By Jeremy Hance
One of the world's least-known flying foxes could face extinction by rising seas and changing…441 new species described in the Amazon rainforest since 2010
Oct 25, 2013, 9:41 pm By Rhett Butler
Scientists described at least 441 previously unknown species from Amazon rainforest between 2010 and…Photo essay: notes from India's Kabini River
Oct 25, 2013, 12:50 pm By Tiffany Roufs
The Nilgiris, also known as the "Blue mountains," in southern India are an extraordinary mountain…'Sustainable' tropical timber trade a misnomer, says group
Oct 24, 2013, 6:33 pm By Rhett Butler
The production and trade in 'sustainable' timber products in Southeast Asia is mostly 'a mirage' due…Armored giant turns out to be vital ecosystem engineer
Oct 24, 2013, 11:25 am By Jeremy Hance
The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) is not called a giant for nothing: it weighs as much as a…
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