The Cryosphere by Dr. Shawn J. Marshall, Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, University of Calgary, is an excellent book because it summarizes leading scientific research into easily accessible chapters…
Leatherback sea turtle camouflaging nest in Suriname. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. The U.S. federal government has designated 108,556 square kilometers (41,914 square miles) as critical habitat for the leatherback sea…
Green forest dragon in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler Gong Xi Fa Cai! (Or "Gung Hay Fat Choy" phonetically). Today marks the start of Chinese New Year, which…
Aerial view over Latvian forests—please note almost all cutting patches are fresh, not yet regenerated. Photo by: R.Matrozis, 2007. The economic crisis has pushed many nations to scramble for revenue…
Despite being a strong La Niña year, which tends to be cooler than the average year, 2011 was the ninth warmest year on record and the warmest La Niña yet,…
Hugh Powell "iPhoniscoping" snow petrels in Antarctica. Photo by: Chris Linder. Hugh Powell is science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as well as a contributor to Woods Hole…
A new video highlights the plight of Madagascar's protected tropical forests, which are falling prey to illegal logging and foreign contractors. Featuring Razia Said, Malagasy singer and songwriter, the video…
Scientists have devised a new way to produce ethanol directly from seaweed, offering the potential to generate biofuels that don't compete with terrestrial food production and won't suck up scarce…
The rural poor would substantially boost their income if the ecological services of the ecosystems they steward were valued and compensated by the rest of the world, claims a new…
Family group of Miller's grizzled langur in Wehea Forest. Photo by: Eric Fell. A significant population of the rarely seen, little-known Miller's grizzled langurs (Presbytis hosei canicrus) has been discovered…
Unidentified moth in Madagascar. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. In 2009 researchers described and named 19,232 species new to science, pushing the number of known species on Earth to just…
Recent rosewood and ebony logging has been associated with a rise in commercial bushmeat poaching of threatened lemurs in Madagascar. Gibson Guitars allegedly imported illegally logged Madagascar ebony and was…
Damming of the Xingu River has begun in Brazil to make way for the eventual construction of the hugely controversial, Belo Monte dam. The Norte Energia (NESA) consortium has begun…
Rainforest in West Kalimantan Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) on Thursday announced a regulation that would protect 45 percent of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, according to a…
Aerial photo of an Amazon rainforest tributary in Peru. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The common view of the Amazon is that it is one massive, unbroken forest. This impression…
by 19 January 2012
Mengubur kepala dalam pasir merupakan salah satu pendekatan dalam berurusan dengan keluhan-keluhan lingkungan, tapi menilai dari sukses kampanye-kampanye Greenpeace baru-baru ini, mungkin ini bukan salah satu pendekatan yang sangat efektif…
Climatic gradient across the Amazon basin. The hydrologic Amazon basin is demarcated by a thick blue line; the mean daily precipitation during the three driest months of the year are…
View Larger Map The tar sands as seen from Google Earth near Fort McMurray, Alberta. The Obama administration today announced it is scrapping TransCanada's Keystone pipeline after Republicans forced a…
A hesitant response by the international community likely led to thousands of unnecessary deaths in last year's famine in East Africa finds a new report released by Oxfam and Save…
Children watch the rereleasing of a southern river terrapin back into the wild. Photo by: Eleanor Briggs. Only around 200 southern river terrapins (Batagur affinis) survive in the wild, but…
In just six years around six million bats have succumbed to white-nose syndrome in North America, according to U.S. federal researchers. The number, somewhere between 5.7 and 6.7 million bats,…
Researchers have uncovered corncobs dating back at least 3,000 years ago in two ancient mound sites in Peru according to a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of…
Pristine coastal vegetation: Misool island, Raja Ampat. Photo by: Dimtry Telnov, 2009. Entomologist Dmitry Telnov hopes his new pet project will inspire and disseminate research about one of the world's…
Editor's note: this story has been corrected since originally posted. See the box below for details. Rainforest in Sumatra Levi Strauss & Company had issued a new policy that will…
Páramo: Paisaje estudiado, habitado, manejado e institucionalizado á Pramo - an Ecuador overview Páramos © Robert Hofstede. Grupo de Trabajo en Páramos del Ecuador (GTP) is a remarkable self-organized group…
An Indonesian rock band, Navicula, is highlighting the plight of orangutans in their native country through a new song entitled, aptly, "Orangutan." The band has created a music video for…
REDD does not finance first-time logging of primary forests for plantations, but concerns remain, says Greenpeace Rainforest in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse…
The Atlanta-based Southern Company owns the top three biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. according to recent data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Three of…
One of EDGE's focal mammals: the red slender loris (Loris tardigradus). Photo by: James T. Reardon/ZSL. What do Attenborough's echidna, the bumblebee bat, and the purple frog have in common?…
Children in Madagascar. Seventy percent of Malagasy people suffer from malnutrition. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Last year saw the highest average food prices since recording began in 1990, according…
