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Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Camera traps find less mammals than expected in Costa Rican corridor

Natalie Millar 16 Dec 2013

Big data shows tropical mammals on the decline

Jeremy Hance 12 Dec 2013

Journalists win environmental news reporting prizes

Mongabay.org 10 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Scientists discover new cat species roaming Brazil

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2013

Satellites reveal browning mountain forests

Sandhya Sekar 22 Nov 2013

Longline fisheries in Costa Rica hook tens of thousands of sea turtles every year

Julia Calderone 14 Nov 2013

Fishermen get crafty to circumvent shark fin ban

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2013

Thought-to-be-extinct ‘halloween’ frog rediscovered in Costa Rica

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2013

Nature tours in Costa Rica: an economic alternative to palm oil?

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Oct 2013

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Jeremy Hance 10 Oct 2013

Recovering forests ‘heal’ themselves by speeding up nitrogen fixation

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 8 Oct 2013

Camera-traps reveal surprising mammals at remote site in Honduras (photos)

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 30 Sep 2013

Climate change pushing tropical trees upslope ‘exactly as predicted’

Claire Salisbury 27 Sep 2013

Attempt to export nearly-extinct pygmy sloths sets off international incident in Panama

Tanya Dimitrova 20 Sep 2013

Mesoamerican Reef needs more local support, says report

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Sep 2013

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 12 Sep 2013

Preserving forest, birds boosts coffee profit up to $300/ha by controlling pests

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2013

Scientists outline how to save nearly 70 percent of the world’s plant species

Jeremy Hance 5 Sep 2013

New pictures from Costa Rica

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2013

Eighty sea turtles wash up dead on the coast of Guatemala

Lacey Avery 27 Aug 2013

UN REDD program failing to build capacity for indigenous people in Panama

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2013

New tiny insect named after Peter Pan fairy discovered in Central America

Natalie Millar 16 Aug 2013

Deforestation ban working in Costa Rica

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2013

Suspects arrested in Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist’s murder

Mongabay.com 3 Aug 2013

Researchers produce the most accurate carbon map for an entire country

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

Featured video: saving animals from the illegal pet trade in Guatemala

Jeremy Hance 22 Jul 2013

Featured video: mangroves in El Salvador imperiled by climate change

Jeremy Hance 17 Jul 2013

Scientists build app to automatically identify species based on their calls

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jul 2013

Rising temperatures are triggering rainforest trees to produce more flowers

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2013

Conservationists urge Costa Rica to maintain environmental leadership

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jun 2013

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