At the same time that it is committing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protecting rainforests, Norway is investing more than 13 billion dollars a year via its…
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Click image to enlarge Researchers have developed a methodology for accurately predicting where deforestation will occur in the Amazon up to a year in…
Cattle in Brazil. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Making productive use of degraded lands and boosting productivity of small-holder farmers are key to meeting surging global consumption of agricultural products…
Dogon village Songo in Mali, Africa . The Dogon are an ethnic tribe in the Sahel. Photo by: Bigstock. The UN announced yesterday that food security in the Sahel region…
The baby giraffe was born at 6 feet tall and weighing in at around 100 pounds. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS. A baby Rothschild's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) was recently…
A honeybee tagged with an RFID microchip for tracking its movements. Photo © Science/AAAS. Commonly used pesticides may be a primary driver of the collapsing bee populations, finds two new…
Turkey's stunning landscapes and wildlife are under threat due to government ambivalence. Here, the sun sets outside Igdir, Turkey. Photo by: Cagan Sekercioglu. Turkey: the splendor of the Hagia Sophia,…
Young teak trees growing in a plantation in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Wild teak forests continue to decline, threatening genetic diversity, while commercial planted teak forests are…
An apparent carbon deal between an Irish carbon trading company and an indigenous tribe that sparked outrage in Brazil is "invalid" according to the president of FUNAI, Brazil's indigenous affairs…
Shifts in the carbon market, according to Forest Trends. Click image to enlarge Despite slow progress via the U.N. process and other intergovernmental bodies, national governments, municipalities, and the private…
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Click image to enlarge Roughly half of the 70 percent decline in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 and 2009 can be attributed…
NASA map shows temperature anomalies from March 13-19, 2012 as compared to the same eight day period during the past 12 years based on data captured by the Moderate Resolution…
The map above was made from observations by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS). Centered on the North Pole, the image shows sea ice concentration on March 18, with white…
The Bururi long-fingered frog was rediscovered after missing for 62 years. Photo by: David Blackburn. A pair of researchers have rediscovered a long-lost frog in the tiny African country of…
Fires in Tripa. Satellite data from NASA confirms that fires are burning in an orangutan hotspot slated for conversion to oil palm plantations. According to Web Fire Mapper, a U.N.…
Bakun dam during construction. Photo by: Mohamad Shoox. The world's third largest mining company, Rio Tinto, and a local financial and construction firm, Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS), have cancelled plans…
Note: this article was amended shortly after posting to include APP's denial and demand for retraction of the Eyes on the Forest report. Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has broken…
Fires in Tripa. Fires are burning in a peat forest that is the center of contentious court case. 77 "hotspots" have been detected in Tripa peat swamp, including fires set…
Peatlands destruction in Central Kalimantan. A $100 million peat conservation project launched in the heart of Indonesian Borneo by the Australian government has been dramatically scaled back and is largely…
An extinct marsupial mega-herbivore, Diprotodon optatum. Drawing by Peter Murray. Image © Science/AAAS. The theory that humans, and not climate change, was primarily responsible for the extinction of giant marsupials…
Hidden animals and new species: over 100 years of discovery. An interview with Karl Shuker. The last thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, is believed to have died in 1936. However many…
Weedy scorpion fish is a new addition the New York Aquarium on Coney Island. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS. This bright yellow weedy scorpion fish (Rhinopias frondosa) is the newest…
Muara Tae Diaries from EIA on Vimeo. Forests are falling across Borneo. A new videoblog by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telepak have documented the loss of one such…
Amazon community on the Rio Corrientes. Photo by: Patrick le Flufy. "Shh, wait here," Wilson told me. I ducked down behind the buttress of a large tree to wait. We…
View Larger MapSierra de Juárez in Oaxaca is one of the most important cloud forests in Mexico, but remains unprotected. Mexico could lose nearly 70 percent of its cloud forests…
Ivory stored in Malawi. Photo by: EIA. Although the international ivory trade has been banned since 1989, last year was the worst ever for elephant poaching, and this year has…
Philip M. Fearnside is a Research Professor at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA) in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil since 1978. Author of over 450 publications, his honors…
Deforestation by forest type/classification in DRC, 2000-2005 and 2005-2010. Click image to enlarge. Danzer, a Swiss-German forestry company that has been heavily criticized by environmentalists for its logging practices in…
The Google Street View team in the Brazilian Amazon. Courtesy of Google. Google has posted images of a stretch of rainforest and communities along the Amazon river on its Street…
Global deforestation according to the U.N. Click to enlarge Greenpeace reiterated its call for an end to deforestation in Brazil by 2015 and globally by 2020 during its launch of…
