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Palm oil or lard?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2012

Greenpeace says U.S. logging company has broken landmark boreal forest agreement

Jeremy Hance 6 Dec 2012

Illegal logging, mining worsened impact of Philippines’ killer typhoon

Jeremy Hance 6 Dec 2012

Asia Pulp & Paper hires top U.S. lobbyist to help ‘green’ its image

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2012

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

Africa’s great savannahs may be more endangered than the world’s rainforests

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

Tropical deforestation emissions were 3 billion tons/yr from 2000-2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2012

With deforestation falling, energy sector to become Brazil’s biggest CO2 source

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2012

Brazilian bank approves $10.8 billion loan for controversial Amazon rainforest dam

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2012

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2012

5 years in, debates over REDD+ continue

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Nov 2012

Brazil’s deforestation at record low from 2011-2012

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2012

Featured video: how locals depend on Kalimantan’s vanishing forests

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Legislation leaves future of world’s largest temperate rainforest up in the air

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Photos reveal destruction of Cameroon rainforest for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2012

Indian coal giant targets forests

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2012

Rights groups, environmentalists aim to block funding for new Sumatran pulp mill

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2012

Amazon deforestation tracking higher in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2012

Penan suspend dam blockade, give government one month to respond to demands

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2012

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2012

Gaining from rain: precipitation is an indicator of tropical forest biodiversity

Thomas Handley 12 Nov 2012

Foreign loggers and corrupt officials flouting logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jeremy Hance 8 Nov 2012

Development halted in crucial wildlife corridor in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 7 Nov 2012

Over 100,000 farmers squatting in Sumatran park to grow coffee

Jeremy Hance 6 Nov 2012

Strong deforestation signals from Central and West Africa in July, August, and September 2012

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Nov 2012

New rare frog discovered in Sri Lanka, but left wholly unprotected

Darren Lloyd 5 Nov 2012

From ‘fertilizer to fork’: food accounts for a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2012

After protracted Greenpeace campaign, KFC UK says it will no longer source from Asia Pulp & Paper

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2012

Happy Halloween: nine new species of tree-climbing tarantula discovered

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2012

Future of the Tongass forest lies in salmon, not clear-cut logging

Austin Williams 25 Oct 2012

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