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World cereal production forecast to decrease in 2006

China leading the way in reducing undernutrition

Oil firm abandons road project for Amazon rainforest park in Ecuador

Pittsburgh has more urban sprawl than Los Angeles, new maps show

Life expectancy below 40 for some African countries, global population growth rates slow

Automakers, oil companies bicker over responsibility for high gas prices

Tropical deforestation rates to slow in future – new study

Disappearing drylands spell trouble says UN

Is climate change worsening malaria?

Brazil to flood Amazon rainforest for hydroelectric power

FSC / RIL certification

Carbon fiber composites could boost future car fuel efficiency 30 percent

Microfinance key to alleviating poverty in forest communities

New tropical timber pact takes aims at illegal logging

Without recycling, world metals face depletion finds Yale study

Number of hungry Africans doubles in a decade

Goodbye to West Africa’s Rainforests

Madagascar establishes new park system to protect lemurs, benefit people

New evidence shows abrupt worldwide increase in birth rate during Neolithic period

China Faces Water Crisis — 300 million drink unsafe water

Ford assesses business implications of climate change in new report

Rising ocean causes permanent evacuation of Pacific island community

Pandas threatened by roads and forest fragmentation in China

New maps reveal the human footprint on Earth

Rising seas and disappearing islands will produce environmental refugees

203 million people malnourished in sub-Saharan Africa

Plague could worsen with global warming

Africa looks to build scientific expertise at Nairobi conference

Mauritius PM blocks road threatening endangered forest

eBay founder gives $100 million for microfinance to help world’s poorest people

Illegal timber from Honduras reaching the United States

Medicinal Plants could help poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa — World Bank report

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