Development News

RSS
4404 stories

Oil palm workers still below poverty line, despite Minister’s statements

Blackout in Brazil: Hydropower and Our Climate Conundrum

Using fish as livestock feed threatens global fisheries

Record year for CO2 emissions, even with economic slowdown

New rating systems seeks to promote sustainable landscapes from shopping malls to city parks

Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

Costa Rica proposes to downgrade Las Baulas National Park, threatening leatherback sea turtles

Nations vulnerable to global warming present demands: carbon levels below 350ppm and billions in aid

Fossil fuel subsidies “bringing us closer to irreversible climate change”

NASA satellite image reveals extent of drought in East Africa

Kihansi spray toad goes extinct in the wild

Governments, public failing to save world’s species

Gucci drops APP in pledge to save rainforests

Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

200 million more people going hungry

“Money is not a problem,” palm oil CEO tells conservationists during speech defending the industry

The Yangtze River may have lost another inhabitant: the Chinese paddlefish

Emotional call for palm oil industry to address environmental problems

Kenya’s pain, part two: decades of wildlife decline exacerbated by drought

Business and conservation groups team up to conserve and better manage US’s southern forests

Palm oil industry pledges wildlife corridors to save orangutans

Could agroforestry solve the biodiversity crisis and address poverty?, an interview with Shonil Bhagwat

Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra

Working to save the ‘living dead’ in the Atlantic Forest, an interview with Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Hummer owners view themselves as morally upright

US subsidies of oil and coal more than double the subsidies of renewable energy

After declining 95% in 15 years, Saiga antelope begins to rebound with help from conservationists

Carbon Financing and Community Forestry

Kenya’s pain: famine, drought, government ambivalence cripples once stable nation

‘Greening’ logging concessions could help save great apes

you're currently offline