A forest conservation project backed by Shell, Gazprom Market and Trading and the Clinton Foundation on the island of Borneo has won approval under a carbon accounting standard, reports Reuters.…
A controversial plan to construct a bauxite mine on indigenous lands in the Indian state of Orissa has been canceled by the country's environment ministry. The scheme had been opposed…
$27.9 billion in "fast-start" funding has so far been pledged by industrialized countries to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, according to a new climate finance tracking…
The Norwegian Government's pension fund sold all its 16 million shares of Samling Global, a Malaysian timber company, after concluding the firm had committed "serious transgessions" in logging outside of…
Houston Zoo, NASA and a Consortium of Gulf Coast Zoos Race to Save Prairie Chickens It’s not so complicated, but it’s much easier said than done. I’m referring to the…
Norway has agreed to transfer an initial $30 million to Indonesia under its $1 billion REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) partnership with the Southeast Asian country. The…
Lion populations across Uganda's park system have declined 40 percent in less than a decade, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The results, based on the country's first ever…
Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of…
New satellite data shows that human actions are wiping out mangrove forests even faster than previous bleak estimates. Conducted by the US Geological Survey and NASA, the researchers found that…
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has found that the global average temperature of July 2010 was nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.55 degrees Celsius) higher than average temperatures…
Sinar Mas faces backlash from false claims made in response to environmental campaign against deforestation. Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate whose holdings include Asia Pulp and Paper, a paper products…
Although developers and government often tout dams as environmentally-friendly energy sources, this is not always the case. Dams impact river flows, changing ecosystems indefinitely; they may flood large areas forcing…
Bats hang out in a limestone cave in Malaysia's Taman Negara National Park. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2006. To see other photos from caves in Malaysia: Malaysian caves.
Is it a hairy goat roaming the plains? An antelope with some genetic mix-up? At this point no one knows. This strange creature was photographed in Kenya's Masai Mara National…
An interview with Paula Kahumbu of WildlifeDirect. Rising over 2,500 meters from Kenya's northern desert, the Mathews Range is a sky island: isolated mountain forests surrounded by valleys. Long cut…
A Christian church in a logging camp in Guyana. Photo by: Jeremy Hance, 2008. To see other photos from Guyana: 2008 Trip to Guyana.
Researchers have linked another extinction to human beings: this time of a massive prehistoric horned turtle. Prehistoric turtles in the Meiolania genus were thought to have vanished some 50,000 years…
One hundred Kihansi Spray Toads have been flown to their native Tanzania after a close brush with extinction, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The species, which last year was…
UPDATE: India blocks 'Avatar' mining project that threatened tribe In the Indian state of Orissa a drama more wild than James Cameron's imaginings has been playing out. An indigenous people,…
Katydid nymph in West Papua, on the island of New Guinea. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, August 2010. This red, magenta, orange, and yellow katydid nymph was seen in the…
At least four children died after rabid vampire bats attacked Awajun indigenous communities in a remote part of Peru, reports the BBC. Peru's health ministry sent emergency teams to vaccinate…
A large-scale bleaching event due to high ocean temperatures appears to be underway off the coast of Sumatra, an Indonesian island, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). An initial survey…
Industrial logging concessions on islands off the coast of Sumatra threaten to undermine a sustainable community industry that may hold to key to protecting Indonesia's carbon-dense, but increasingly endangered peatlands.…
An interview with Laurens Rademakers of Biochar Fund. Biochar—the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass—may be one of this century's most important social and environmental revolutions. This seemingly…
With less than 670 Rothschild's giraffes surviving in the wild, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List has listed the subspecies as 'Endangered'. Surviving in Kenya…
Kristian Teleki, Vice President for Science Initiatives for SeaWeb and former Director of the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), spoke with Laurel Neme on her "The WildLife" radio show…
The Tad Lo waterfalls in Laos. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2009. To see other photos of waterfalls from around the world: Waterfalls.
75 percent of birds and dung beetles remain even after a forest is logged twice. The United States will cut Brazil's debt payments by $21 million under a debt-for-nature that…
An open letter to the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Dear Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, I write to you as a deeply concerned and saddened citizen of Malaysia. For most…
75 percent of birds and dung beetles remain even after a forest is logged twice. A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B finds that forests which…
