Despite some politicians and TV personalities claiming that climate change is dead, a panel of influential US and European scientists held a press conference at the annual meeting of the…
Indonesia will target its last frontier — its territory on New Guinea — as it seeks to become a major agricultural exporter, reports the AFP. In its quest to become…
Illegal loggers are targeting community-managed forests in South Sumatra, renewing questions over forestry governance and law enforcement as the Indonesia prepares to capitalize on payments for conservation and reforestation under…
Cricket mothers are long gone by the time their infants hatch, so one would assume that cricket parents have little effect on their offspring's behavior. Not so, according to a…
The vehicle stopped on the way into Tabin Wildlife Reserve as a troop of pig-tailed macaques began making their way across the road. In a flash a domestic dog, which…
Under the Copenhagen Accord signed in December, the world's richest countries pledged billions of dollars in climate finance to help fund adaptation and mitigation initiatives in poor and vulnerable countries.…
Profits of the world's 3,000 largest companies would be cut by $2.2 trillion per year if they were forced to pay for environmental damage caused by their operations, according to…
Leopard caught by a camera trap in the Jeypore-Dehing forest. Photo by: Kashmira Kakati. Using camera traps over a two-year period, wildlife biologist Kashmira Kakati has discovered seven species of…
Though they grew up world's apart, Sumatran rhinos Ratu and Andalas have given conservationists new-found hope for saving the embattled species. The rhino couple is expecting, according to the Sumatran…
Using camera traps over a two-year period, wildlife biologist Kashmira Kakati has discovered seven species of wild cats living in the same forest: the Jeypore-Dehing lowland forests in the northeastern…
Experts release list of the world's top 25 most endangered primates. Of the known 634 primate species in the world 48 percent are currently threatened with extinction, making mankind's closes…
Havasu Canyon, Arizona. Photo by Rhett A. Butler
Snow-capped mountains near Muzagata Peak in Xinjiang, western China. Photo by Rhett A. Butler
One hundred and thirteen countries have signed on to an agreement to protect seven migratory sharks currently threatened with extinction byway of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species…
The longstanding belief as to why some plants produce big seeds and others small seeds is that in this case bigger-is-better, since large seeds have a better chance of survival.…
An article today in New Scientist shows that American consumers have a difficult time correctly identifying green companies, often confusing 'greenwashing' for true green credentials or not bestowing enough credit…
Captive okapi. Photo by Rhett A. Butler Twelve-year-old on a mission to save Africa's most unusual animal, the okapi, an interview with Spencer Tait (02/16/2010) Anyone who says a kid…
The European Union's biofuel targets could starve up to 100 million people, warns a report from an anti-poverty charity. ActionAid estimates the E.U.'s plan to source 10 percent of transport…
A new study in the Environmental Research Letter finds that the Peruvian Amazon is being overrun by the oil and gas industries. According to the study 41 percent of the…
Known as the 'Bush Blitz', Australia will spend 10 million Australian dollars (8.88 million US dollars) over the next three years to conduct biodiversity surveys in far-flung places, reports Sydney…
U.S. tropical lumber imports plunged by nearly half between 2009 and 2008, reports the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). Citing data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, ITTO lists a…
A survey of 78 forestry concessions in Peru found that 46 (59 percent) were in breach of their concession contracts, reports the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). Monitoring conducted by…
Huddart County Park on Feb 14, 2010. Photo by Rhett A. Butler Huddart County Park is a short drive from downtown Woodside, a town in the San Francisco Bay Area.…
Redwoods in Huddart County Park, San Mateo County, California. Photo by Rhett Butler. A surprising new study finds that during the past century the frequency of fog along California's coast…
A push in the mid-1980s for Africa to embrace free trade to aid its economies backfired in many of the continent's poorest countries, argues a new study in the Proceedings…
South China Tiger in South Africa, where Save China's Tigers has established a "rewilding" facility to eventually enable to reintroduction of the South China Tiger into its native habitat in…
Speaking at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that "business as usual is not an option" to protect the world'…
Last week the secretary of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Willem Wijnstekers, announced that security forces in Zimbabwe had poached approximately 200 rhinos in a…
Today marks the Chinese New Year for 2010, and the start of the traditional "Year of the Tiger." The people of China might be celebrating future Years of the Tigers…
Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
