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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

Warmer winters increasing risk of avalanches in the Himalayas, studies find

Neha Jain 4 May 2018

Australia to invest $379 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 3 May 2018

UN forest accounting loophole allows CO2 underreporting by EU, UK, US

Justin Catanoso 2 May 2018

China’s Belt and Road poised to transform the Earth, but at what cost?

Giovanni Ortolani 24 Apr 2018

A wish list for an environmentally friendly NAFTA

Jennifer Huizen 11 Apr 2018

Analysis: U.S. call to drill off all coasts, economic and ecological folly?

Saul Elbein 14 Mar 2018

Beyond polar bears: Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future

Gloria Dickie 7 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy, Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Feb 2018

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