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Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024
Arg-e Bam in Iran, a trading center on the famous Silk Road, known to be the largest adobe building in the world.

What’s old is new again: Bioarchitects plot route to circular economy

Sandra Weiss 26 Oct 2023
The Deekali Project: Women washing plastic waste to prepare for the grinding machine at a local recycling facility in Senegal.

As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?

Charles Pekow 19 Oct 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023
Tridi Oasis recycles PET bottles to produce rPET flakes which could be used to make packing materials and textiles.

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Aug 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023

Even in recycling, microplastics remain a persistent polluter, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023
A bee on a flower.

Human justice element is key to stemming biodiversity loss, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Dec 2022
Oil barrel Amazon

California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds

Victoria Schneider 23 Dec 2021
Cow in Colombia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Though nefarious, Russian hack of JBS should prompt environmental debate over meat “oligopoly” (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 25 Aug 2021

Some guitar makers in pursuit of sustainable manufacturing

Stephan Boissonneault 20 Apr 2021
NASA Landsat image of agriculture in the Nevada desert.

Population and consumption: challenges we can win (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 20 Jul 2020

Trendy, cheap, and dirty: Fashion is a top global polluter

Liz Kimbrough 23 Apr 2020

Coconut farmers in Southeast Asia struggle as palm oil muscles in on them

Nithin Coca 30 Mar 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett A. Butler 27 Dec 2019

The tropics are in trouble, warn scientists

Rhett A. Butler 14 Aug 2018

The Philippines commits to science-anchored fishery policies

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2017

Why we can’t lose hope: Dr. David Suzuki speaks out

Glenn Scherer 11 Sep 2017

Pangolin hunting skyrockets in Central Africa, driven by international trade

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2017

‘Running out of time’: 60 percent of primates sliding toward extinction

John Cannon 19 Jan 2017

Beef consumers’ role in causing deforestation in South America (commentary)

Asha Sharma 13 Sep 2016

Drink beer, help the ocean?

Julia John 14 Jun 2016

Fiery end for the last of the toothfish pirates

Cory Rogers 6 Apr 2016

Conservation and birth control: a controversial mix?

Roz Evans 14 Mar 2016

Eaten to extinction? India’s purple frog faces another threat

Apoorva Joshi 26 Oct 2015

How much water is in your shirt?

Mike Gaworecki 16 Sep 2015

Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to ’empty landscapes’

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2015

Jane Goodall: 5 reasons to have hope for the planet

Rhett A. Butler 19 Nov 2014

Demand for rhino horn drops 38 percent in Vietnam after advertising campaigns

Jeremy Hance 22 Oct 2014

Demand for shark fin plunging

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2014

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

The beef with beef: how 12 strategies could drastically cut agricultural emissions

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2014

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