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Plant response to rising CO2 levels may alter rainfall patterns across tropics

Claire Asher 28 Jun 2018

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 28 Jun 2018

In its fight against rhino poachers, India lets the dogs out

Moushumi Basu 28 Jun 2018

Belize Barrier Reef gets UNESCO upgrade

Erik Hoffner 28 Jun 2018

Citizen science makes easy work of penguin time-lapse image bounty

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Jun 2018

The plastic crisis sinks to a new low in the deep sea

Bhanu Sridharan 28 Jun 2018

PepsiCo to probe deforestation in palm oil supplier’s Leuser Ecosystem concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018

Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together

Elham Shirin 27 Jun 2018

Nature retention, not just protection, crucial to maintaining biodiversity and ecosystems: Scientists

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jun 2018
A critically endangered diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema), one of nine lemur species that live in the rainforest where the Ambatovy mine was established. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Uncertainty around Madagascar mine in wake of cyclone

Laurence Soustras, Riana Raymonde Randrianarisoa 27 Jun 2018

Logging roads drive loss of intact forest in FSC-certified logging concessions

John Cannon 27 Jun 2018

For Madagascar’s park managers, the science literature is out of reach

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Jun 2018

‘Screen, not just green’ infrastructure projects to help economies and the environment

John Cannon 26 Jun 2018
Cesar Benedict goes on air at Faluma Bimetu community radio station in Triunfo de la Cruz. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna use radio to fight for their land

Christopher Clark 25 Jun 2018

Could El Niño and climate change spell the end for tropical forests?

Claire Salisbury 25 Jun 2018

DRC adopts a strategy that will bolster community forestry, conservation group says

John Cannon 25 Jun 2018
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Winning farmer support to reduce deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad, João Shimada 24 Jun 2018

Latam Eco Review: Ports imperil Colombian crocodiles

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2018

Cool birds don’t sing: Study automates acoustic monitoring of songbird migration

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Jun 2018

Last Glimpses of a Cambodian Paradise? Documenting an area on the eve of its likely destruction (commentary)

Gregory McCann 22 Jun 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, June 22, 2018

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2018

Coral reef ‘oases’ that thrive amid threats give hope for conservation

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2018

New ‘goblin spiders’ from Sri Lanka named after Enid Blyton characters

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2018

As Colombia expands its palm oil sector, scientists worry about wildlife

Taran Volckhausen 21 Jun 2018

New study provides blueprint to translate satellite data into conservation action

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Jun 2018

US/China trade war could boost Brazil soy export, Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 21 Jun 2018

Orangutan forest school in Indonesia takes on its first eight students

Jim Tan 21 Jun 2018

Amber deposits yield oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2018

Commercial values are a key driver of Zero Deforestation policies (commentary)

Róisín Mortimer 20 Jun 2018

Puan, the world’s oldest Sumatran orangutan, dies at 62

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jun 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar: Yet another anti-trafficking activist convicted

Edward Carver 19 Jun 2018

2018 Arctic sea ice melt season just got a big headstart

Gloria Dickie 19 Jun 2018

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