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Can Cutting-Edge Drone Technology Help Answer the Age-Old Question of Bipedalism?

Andrew Lewis 12 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

Focus on great apes, draws attention from other species, finds study

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Feb 2016

Secondary forests offer big opportunity to fight global warming

Mike Gaworecki 12 Feb 2016

Aceh citizens ask governor to keep bulldozers out of a crucial rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Feb 2016

Peruvian Amazon will get wetter and experience more severe floods, threatening wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

As the U.S. bans trans fats, palm oil is poised to take over – but at what cost?

Sarah Hucal 11 Feb 2016

Can a virtual fence help protect birds from human structures?

Julia John 11 Feb 2016

Shocking discovery in Gabon: a new electric fish

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Colombia bans mining in its moorlands

Ruxandra Guidi 11 Feb 2016

Photos: ‘Extremely rare’ baby albino turtle spotted in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Feb 2016

Why is Tasmania burning, and why are scientists worried?

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Feb 2016

In the rush to reforest, are the world’s old-growth grasslands losing out?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Feb 2016

Cincinnati-born Harapan the rhino adjusting well to life in Sumatra

Rahmadi Rahmad, Ridzki R. Sigit 10 Feb 2016

Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

Jonathan Vit 9 Feb 2016

Meet the new spider named after Johnny Cash

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

What’s that forest worth? Disaster assistance (finally!) takes nature into account

Guest Commentary 9 Feb 2016

Researchers say you get what you pay for when it comes to payments for ecosystem services

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

Illegal gold mining pushes deeper into protected Peruvian reserve

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Feb 2016

‘Where Have All the Animals Gone?’ – a journey through Africa and Asia

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil 8 Feb 2016

Drop in commodity prices isn’t necessarily helping indigenous peoples and the environment in Brazil

Carolina Torres 8 Feb 2016

How can banks spur the palm oil industry toward sustainability?

Pek Shibao 8 Feb 2016

Geospatial data for the people, by the people

Suzanne Palminteri 6 Feb 2016

The week in environmental news – Feb 05, 2016

Brittany Stewart 5 Feb 2016

Study finds logging helps black rats invade tropical rainforests, push native species out

Mike Gaworecki 5 Feb 2016

Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2016
Burning peat forest and oil palm in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Norway pledges $50m to fund Indonesia’s peat restoration

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Feb 2016

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund just announced a groundbreaking human rights policy

Mike Gaworecki 4 Feb 2016

Researchers find the world’s forests are fragmenting at a quick pace

Mike Gaworecki 4 Feb 2016

Rare video: young orangutan and gibbon play together in the Borneo jungle

Sophie Furnival 4 Feb 2016

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