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Living above a century-old coal fire, Jharia residents pay the price for India’s mining ambitions

Moushumi Basu 9 Mar 2017

Significant declines in Colorado River flows likely to continue as temperatures rise

Mike Gaworecki 9 Mar 2017

Climate change driving widespread local extinctions; tropics most at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Mar 2017

Cruise ship wrecks one of Indonesia’s best coral reefs at Raja Ampat

Basten Gokkon 9 Mar 2017
Black rhino mom and calf

Reducing Asia’s hunger for rhino horn

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2017
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Cattle industry lags behind in addressing impact on deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 9 Mar 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Greenpeace to take Indonesian forestry ministry to Supreme Court over environmental data

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2017

Notorious elephant poacher, ‘The Devil’, sentenced to 12 years in jail

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Mar 2017

Industry-backed plantation museum opens in Indonesia

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 9 Mar 2017

Short film takes you into the Amazon with researcher who discovered a new frog species

Mike Gaworecki 8 Mar 2017

In Ecuador, progress stalls on mining dispute between government and indigenous Shuar people

Daniela Aguilar 8 Mar 2017

Rachel Carson: A sensitive soul who changed the way we see — and treat — the world

Leon Kolankiewicz 8 Mar 2017

Amazon Soy Moratorium: defeating deforestation or greenwash diversion?

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 8 Mar 2017

Poachers kill rhino at French zoo

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Mar 2017
Logs burn at sunset in Bolivia. Photo by Jim Wickens/Ecostorm

Brazilian savanna and Bolivian rainforest at risk from soy production, says report

Maximo Anderson 8 Mar 2017

The last elephants of Cambodia’s Virachey National Park

Gregory McCann 7 Mar 2017
Hydropower in Asia

Building environmental community and transparency through maps

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Mar 2017

Rare beaked whale filmed underwater for the first time

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Mar 2017

Nearly half of Mount Oku frogs are in danger of croaking, study finds

Rachel Fritts 7 Mar 2017

An indigenous group reforests its corner of coastal New Guinea

Agapitus Batbual 7 Mar 2017

Japanese, Singaporean banks finance controversial Indonesian coal plant

Isabel Esterman 6 Mar 2017

Many tree species in eastern US may be unable to adapt to changing climate, study finds

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2017

Science needed for more transparency in Paris climate projections

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2017

Where the forest grants went

Harriet Williams 6 Mar 2017

A Christmas Miracle? Perhaps someday

Caitlin Looby 6 Mar 2017
Soda volcano in Oromia region, Ethiopia. Photo by Katy Anis/UNESCO

Ethiopia looks to carbon trading as it gears up to be net carbon neutral by 2025

Elias Gebreselassie 6 Mar 2017

Nitrogen pollution slows down forest decomposers

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Mar 2017

African Parks gets $65M for conservation in Rwanda and Malawi

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2017

Translating the barcode of wildlife into action

Lalini Pedris 3 Mar 2017

Trapped elephants face attacks by mob in India

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Mar 2017

Discovering the Congo carbon sink

Caitlin Looby 3 Mar 2017
A white-handed gibbon. Photo by Thomas Tolkien/Wikimedia Commons

The promise and potential of tropical forests: Q&A with forests expert Frances Seymour

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2017

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