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COP24: World’s nations gather to grapple with looming climate disaster

Justin Catanoso 3 Dec 2018

New research quantifies ecosystem services provided by Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2018

New picture of coral reef health opens avenues for saving them

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2018

High sea levels thousands of years ago aided island formation

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2018

Global warming, human activities causing increased storm runoff, flash floods

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2018

As climate change takes its toll, world leaders call for adaptation

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2018

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: report

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

‘Guardians of the forest:’ Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2018

Dress like a polar bear: learning to love muskoxen at 15 below zero

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2018

Common ground on the prairie (commentary)

Martha Kauffman, Laura Nowlin 14 Sep 2018

Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

John Cannon 27 Aug 2018

Brazil hits emissions target early, but rising deforestation risks reversal

John Cannon 23 Aug 2018

The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up

Gloria Dickie 22 Aug 2018

Soggier forest soils thwart the uptake of climate-warming methane

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2018

Ocean acidity stifles coral-anchored communities

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2018

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

A warmer climate tinkers with Arctic spider’s choice of prey

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2018

First fern genomes sequenced — and they hold a lot of promise

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Mangroves and their deforestation may emit more methane than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jul 2018

Species evolve more than twice as fast at poles as in tropics: study

Gloria Dickie 12 Jul 2018

Nearly four decades of cycling race video reveals climate change’s effects

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together

Elham Shirin 27 Jun 2018

Indonesia turns to green finance for development projects

Basten Gokkon 25 Jun 2018

2018 Arctic sea ice melt season just got a big headstart

Gloria Dickie 19 Jun 2018

Climate change could be killing Africa’s giant baobabs

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2018

Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans

Mike Gaworecki 15 May 2018

Higher incomes, not higher carbon dioxide levels, drive forest gains, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2018

Climate change could be intensifying dust storms in India, experts say

Mayank Aggarwal 14 May 2018

Humpback whales near Antarctica making a comeback, study finds

Mongabay.com 8 May 2018

Deforestation leads to big hikes in local temperature, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 May 2018

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