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Kenyan community displaced by nature reserve seeks justice

Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest

Group takes ‘venture capital’ approach to conservation

Commercial bushmeat trade is devastating wildlife

Malaysia pushes Borneo rainforest logging by deposing tribal leaders

Small-scale fisheries are “best hope” for sustainability in developing world

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Carbon market may fund dam in Panama that threatens natural reserve

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Climate change may increase global conflict

There is enough water for everyone provided it is well-managed and distributed

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

“Turtle carbon” could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles

7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis

Three American mussel species lost to extinction

1.2 million ha of Congo rainforest certified for sustainable forestry

Dell becomes carbon neutral by saving endangered lemurs

Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Conservation groups could augment poverty alleviation in some remote areas

Secret power plan would devastate Sarawak’s rainforest with 12 new hydropower plants

Implementing a butterfly farm: Iwokrama reserve’s latest sustainable initiative

Forests cover 1/3 of U.S. but are responsible for 2/3 of its water supply

$4 gas translates to fewer driving deaths

Parks help people to the detriment of biodiversity, suggests study

California plan would cut emissions 30% by 2020

Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation

The green movement has to become a rainbow-colored movement in order to be successful

Miles-per-gallon misrepresents gains in fuel efficiency from scrapping worst gas-guzzlers

Reforestation a growing, but complicated, initiative

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