Margerie Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Margerie Glacier is 21 miles long.

Giant monkey frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor). The giant monkey frog of Peru is known for its mind-altering skin secretions. Shamans in the Amazon rain forest have used this species in hunting…

Activist group have condemned the latest draft text of an agreement that aims to protect rainforests as a means to mitigate climate change. The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation…

Cattle ranching accounts for half of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions according to a new study led by scientists from Brazil's National Space Institute for Space Research (INPE). The research found…

The world's largest user of palm oil, Unilever, has suspended its $32.6 million contract with the Indonesian group Sinar Mas after an independent audit proved that Sinar Mas is involved…

Majority support cap-and-trade system, especially if it created new green jobs A new poll, taken in the midst of the scandal involving hacked emails from climate change scientists, shows that…

In the first five days of Copenhagen, Canada has won a lot of awards. Only these are not positive awards for good and constructive behavior, but so-called 'fossil awards' given…

Green technology patents will see a year shaved off the average forty month wait time to approve new patents in the US. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is…

Organization recommends expanding REDD to cover all land use change emissions. The political definition of 'forest' used in REDD (Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) threatens to undermine the…

The Global Canopy Project has released a cheat sheet on proposals for financing climate change mitigation. The Little Climate Finance Book, as the review is known, details the various climate…

An orphaned gorilla near Loango National Park in Gabon. The baby gorilla was being treated for a cold at a rehabilitation facility on Evengue island, near Loango National Park. It…

A plan to create a pan-tropical map of forest cover and carbon stocks is moving ahead with data now available on Google Earth, reports the Woods Hole Research Center. The…

While officials from around their world are working night-and-day to come up with an international agreement to combat climate change in Copenhagen, the US Export-Import Bank confirmed it will subsidize…

President of the United States, Barack Obama, was in Oslo, Norway this morning accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, which he won in part for promising to bring the United States…

Five Penan rainforest communities are suing the Sarawak state government and the Malaysian timber giant Samling for violation of their native customary rights, reports the Bruno Manser Fund, a group…

1,700 British scientists have signed a statement put out by the Met Office declaring that they have the "utmost confidence" in the science behind climate change. The statement and signatures…

Summary: Google to incorporate leading deforestation tracking and assessment technologies into Google Earth Partnership will enable rapid respond to deforestation occurring on the ground Prototype for the Amazon, other regions…

Sunrise near Hana, Maui. Some climate change news from the past day or so US think-tank: islands affected by global warming should wait for trickle-down money (12/09/2009) Poor island nations…

Summary: Brazil's Amazon Fund to reduce deforestation distributes $40M to 5 NGOs Projects focus on monitoring, environmentally-responsible land use, forest protection, and payments for avoiding deforestation 20% of Amazon Fund…

Poor island nations threatened by rising seas should wait for money through trickle-down economics, according to the founder of the US-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. The free-market think tank believes that…

A Brazilian ranching company is bulldozing land within UNESCO Chaco Biosphere Reserve in Paraguay, home to the only uncontacted natives outside of the Amazon in South America. While the UNESCO…

Led by the small island state of Tuvalu, developing nations particularly vulnerable to climate change have put forward the most ambitious plan yet to mitigate climate change. Their move has…

The head of the UN, Ban-Ki Moon; the Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen; and American climate change leader, Al Gore, all attempted to downplay the leak of the 'Danish…

While developing countries in the tropics have received a lot of attention for their deforestation emissions (one thinks of Brazil, Indonesia, and Malaysia), emissions from logging—considered forest cover change—in wealthy…

Summary: REDD+ could create incentives for forest conservation But policy reform needed Policymakers need to consider broader drivers of deforestation Payments for conservation and sustainable management of forests could turn…

Summary: Carapa akuri is a new tree species endemic to Guyana Carapa akuri produces oil-rich seeds valuable for a range of uses Carapa akuri may provide another reason to conserve…

Rainforest in Uganda. Destruction of old-growth or primary forests looms large in discussions in Copenhagen over a scheme to compensate tropical countries for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).…

Tropical deforestation claimed roughly 13 million hectares of forest per year during the first half of this decade, about the same rate of loss as the 1990s. But while the…

A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of…

On the first day of talks at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guinea's Special Envoy and Ambassador for Environment and Climate Change, surprised many by…