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
2:06pm 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
12:44pm 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
12:21pm 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
3:46am 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
3:46am By Philip JacobsonDespite high-profile no-deforestation policies, palm oil giants Golden Agri-Resources and Wilmar…The crop-saving champion of Tanzania: Bertha Mjawa
Wed 1:39pm 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
Wed 10:50am By Rebecca Kessler
Under the threat of losing their lands to a hydroelectric power plant project strategic to the…Expert panel rebukes Japan's new whaling proposal
Wed 10:27am By Jeremy Hance
Last year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Japan must halt its whaling…Fishermen's ire over trawler ban pushes Indonesia to form special task force
Wed 4:22am By Philip Jacobson
Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will form a new task force to deal with fishermen’s…Unique center trains Tanzanian farmers to preserve their fruits and veggies
Apr 14, 2015, 11:37 am By Rebecca Kessler
Farmers and traders throughout sub-Saharan Africa lose nearly half of their fruits and vegetables…Americans join in protesting reclamation of Bali's Benoa Bay
Apr 14, 2015, 11:11 am By Philip Jacobson
Americans and Indonesians demonstrated in Washington D.C. last week in protest of a massive land…Expedition in the Congo rediscovers lost primate
Apr 14, 2015, 9:50 am By Jeremy Hance
The last time there was a sighting of Bouvier's red colobus disco was all the rage, the Internet was…Innovative community fisheries initiative wins top social entrepreneurship prize
Apr 13, 2015, 7:30 pm By Rhett Butler
A program that helps restore overfished areas through community-based marine conservation has won…A tale of two maps: Brazilian state won’t use new atlas to close Cerrado deforestation loophole
Apr 13, 2015, 4:25 pm By Tiffany Roufs
Farmers in north-central Brazil, where the savanna meets the Amazon rainforest, are clearing land at…
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