Illegal gold mining boat in Peru. Photo courtesy of Katy Ashe. On the back of a partially functioning motorcycle I fly down miles of winding footpath at high-speed through the…

Aerial photographs of Talangaye oil palm nursery in Nguti subdivision of Herakles Farms planned oil palm plantation. Photographs taken in February 2012. Photographer wishes to remain anonymous. Eleven top scientists…

Active clearance of peat swamp forest by APP pulpwood supplier PT Mutiara Sabuk Khatulistiwa. Photo © Greenpeace. Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry signed off on a plan by Asia Pulp &…

What's the big deal about the tar sands? Canadian photographer Garth Lenz presents the local environmental and social concerns presented by the tar sands in a concise, impassioned speech in…

The world may soon benefit from a plant long-used by indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon for toothaches, eliminating the need for local injections in some cases. Researchers have created…

Antarctica: Ross Island in the Ross Sea. Photo by: Bigstock. The Ross Sea, a massive bay off Antarctica, has been dubbed the world's last ocean due to its pristine state,…

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has recently returned from Bouba Ndjida National Park in northern Cameroon, where at least 400 elephants have been slaughtered since mid-January. IFAW is…

Calf scott and mother Azizah on their walkabout. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Elephants have been spotted roaming the pastoral fields of eastern England. Released for a jaunt from…

Clearing for soy in the Brazilian Amazon Surging demand for vegetable oil has emerged as an important driver of tropical deforestation over the past two decades and is threatening biodiversity,…

The E.U. may finally correct a loophole that allows European countries to ignore greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and farming under their carbon accounting system, reports BBC News. The draft…

Forest fire in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical…

A Javan tiger in 1938 at Ujung Kulon. Photo by: Andries Hoogerwerf. Although officially declared extinct in 2003, some people believe the Javan tiger (panthera tigris sondaica) is still alive…

Improving the evidence base for African great ape conservation: An interview with Sandra Tranquilli. Silverback gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Our closest nonhuman…

Remote camera traps, which have become a hugely important conservation tool on land during the past decade, have now gone underwater. Marine biologists have used underwater video camera traps to…

Oil sands construction: land clearing in preparation of the construction of an oil sands project in northern Alberta. Photo by: Bigstock. Environmentalists have targeted the oil-producing tar sands in Canada…

The cryptic Junin rail. Photo by: Mike Parr. Few people have ever laid eyes on the Junin rail (Laterallus tuerosi). Located in a single lake in Peru, the well-camouflaged bird…

Tongass temperate rainforest. Photo of Southeast Alaska, courtesy of BigStock. Alaskan fishermen and tour operators visited Washington D.C. last week to urge the federal government to shift the focus from…

Coal Power Plant on Lake Michigan. Photo by: Bigstock. A leading journalist and editor at The Atlantic made a startling admission regarding how she writes about climate science last week.…

Africa Wildlife Foundation (AWF), the conservation nonprofit based in Washington, DC, is facing a lawsuit by Kenya’s Samburu tribe over alleged unlawful evictions. The hearing, originally scheduled for January 23,…

Madagascar Emergency Relief Fund More than 110 are dead and 330,000 homeless after two tropical storms battered Madagascar over the past month, says the island nation's disaster management agency. This…

The Senate this week rejected a GOP-backed measure that would have circumvented the Obama Administration's opposition to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, reports CNN. The amendment would have approved construction…

Kelompok Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Indonesia telah menjadi sasaran banyak LSM selama bertahun-tahun karena dugaan dampak negatif terhadap hutan tropis. Hal ini memuncak dalam kampanye spektakuler yang diluncurkan oleh…

Sebuah proporsi yang signifikan dari 3,3 juta USD paviliyun Indonesia pada pembicaraan iklim di Durban didanai oleh perusahaan paper dan kertas, laporan dari Reuters AlertNet. Veby Mega Indah menulis bahwa…

An artist's recreation of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago. Recent research has shown that the dinosaur had iridescent plumage. Image by: Jason Brougham/University…

Imagine powering your cell phone by leaving it on the window sill. Sounds like science fiction? Actually, this might soon turn into reality. Scientists have been exploring the potential of…

Sumatran elephants as photographed from the conservation drone. Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for February 2012. Environmental law enforcement actions During the month of February there were…

Production and sales of palm oil certified under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) reached record volume in 2011, reports a new analysis published by the multistakeholder body. Production…

The UN's International Labor Organization (ILO) has released a report stating that the Brazilian government violated the rights of indigenous people by moving forward on the massive Belo Monte dam…

Crowd rallies for President Dilma Rousseff to veto changes to Brazil's forest code. Photo by: WWF-Brasil. A coalition of 200 organizations, known as the Comitê Brasil in Defense of Forests…

Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Less than a week after Greenpeace released evidence that protected tree species were being illegally logged and pulped at an Asia Pulp…