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Researchers create global map of world’s forests circa 1990

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2014

Leaders pledge to end deforestation by 2030

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2014

Leonard DiCaprio to UN Climate Summit: ‘You can make history or you will be vilified by it’

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2014

The cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Norway puts $1.6B into rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2014

Trawling: destructive fishing method is turning seafloors to ‘deserts’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 May 2014

Extreme cold and drought in U.S. linked to climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2014

Climate change solution? UN touts ambitious (but cheap) investment in renewable energy

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2014

Is 20 millions tons enough? Scientists recommend plastic crackdown as oceans choke

Chris Samoray 2 Apr 2014

U.N.: We can save world’s forests at a fraction of cost of fossil fuels subsidies

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Mar 2014

REDD+ program to cut deforestation gets final approval in Warsaw

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Nov 2013

Citizen groups walk out of UN Climate Summit to protest lack of ambition

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2013

UN talks tough to global coal industry

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2013

Carbon emissions set to hit new record high in 2013

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2013

60,000 protest in Australia to keep carbon price

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2013

Japan pledges to raise carbon emissions, instead of cutting them

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2013

World’s most vulnerable nation to climate change turns to coal power

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2013

Zero net deforestation is the wrong target, warn experts

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Is Australia becoming the new Canada in terms of climate inaction?

Jeremy Hance 14 Nov 2013

Redeeming REDD: a conversation with Michael Brown

Nabiha Megateli-das 11 Nov 2013

Delegate for the Philippines vows to stop eating at climate summit

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2013

America’s growing inequality helped scuttle the global climate change initiative

Owen Reynolds 28 Oct 2013

‘Yet another wakeup call’: global warming is here, it’s manmade, and we’re not doing enough to stop it

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2013

A year after devastating attack, security returns to the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (photos)

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2013

Why Panama’s indigenous pulled out of the UN’s REDD program

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2013

Logging endangers UNESCO World Heritage Site in Solomon Islands

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2013

Fertility in Africa could push world population over 11 billion

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2013

Water and biodiversity pictures for the UN International Day for Biological Diversity

Mongabay.com 22 May 2013

Mining companies must turn to recycling as demand for metals grows

Fiona Harvey 30 Apr 2013

China ‘looting’ Africa of its fish

John Vidal 24 Apr 2013

Madagascar swamped by locust invasion

Wildmadagascar.org 17 Apr 2013

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