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Forest cleared for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

American retirement funds contribute to deforestation and climate change

Mike Gaworecki 22 Nov 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016

Small-scale farming threatens rainforests in Sumatra

Devika Garg Bansal 22 Nov 2016

Humpback whales learn habitat loyalty from their mothers, Alaskan study shows

Teresa L. Carey 22 Nov 2016

69m people breathed toxic smoke from 2015 Indonesian fires: study

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2016

Military training areas can be important wildlife refuges: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2016

Peruvian Melka group palm oil production company withdraws from RSPO

Milton López Tarabochia 22 Nov 2016

If you’re in the U.S., your ramen noodles might become a lot safer for forests

Mike Gaworecki 21 Nov 2016

Peru’s Manu National Park declared world’s top biodiversity hotspot

Milton López Tarabochia 21 Nov 2016

Over-fertilization diminishes the biodiversity of global grasslands

Emma Hiolski 21 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016
The deep-set roots of the mangrove with their strong, crisscossed roots in Sanquianga National Park. Photo courtesy of National Natural Parks of Colombia

Fate of Colombian shellfish pickers closely tied to mangrove

Juanita Rico 21 Nov 2016

Yosemite’s yellow-legged frogs bounce back from near extinction

Ula Chrobak 21 Nov 2016

Don’t feed the orangutans — a warning unheeded at popular ecotourism stop

Aria Danaparamita 21 Nov 2016

Major Congo Basin forest conference convenes in Rwanda

John Cannon, Ric Francis 21 Nov 2016

Tracking down logging roads in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 20 Nov 2016
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Off-the-shelf hobby drones are helping save elephants in Tanzania

Mike Gaworecki 18 Nov 2016

Deep sea mining plans for Papua New Guinea raise alarm

David Hutt 18 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

Large branches fall from the western Amazon rainforest canopy at a surprising rate

Sarah McQuate 18 Nov 2016

A data trove to support a hoped-for shark sanctuary in Indonesia

Marge Segre 18 Nov 2016

The beloved Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are at risk of extinction from avian malaria

Sarah Derouin 18 Nov 2016

Illegal trade in bear bile persists in Vietnam despite ban

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2016
A man transports charcoal in a wheelbarrow in No Man's Land in Namanga, a border town between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel

An East African border town struggles with growing pains

Nathan Siegel 18 Nov 2016

Trump vows Paris Agreement pull out; world unites behind green economy

Justin Catanoso 17 Nov 2016

The Philippines’ Mindanao is a treasure trove of reptile and amphibian diversity

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 Nov 2016

Elusive elephants: Determining where 19th century ivory trade victims roamed

Sukee Bennett 17 Nov 2016
Rainforest cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia ships first containers of timber under EU legality scheme

Lusia Arumingtyas 17 Nov 2016

Rhinos to get new homes in India

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Nov 2016

Morocco plants millions of trees along roads to fight climate change

Justin Catanoso 17 Nov 2016

Seven African countries pledge to protect their tropical forests from unsustainable oil palm development

Mike Gaworecki 16 Nov 2016

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