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Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

Brazilian state to pay counties that cut Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2013

World’s biggest companies lay out path toward zero-deforestation commodities

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2013

Solving ‘wicked problems’: ten principles for improved environmental management

Jaboury Ghazoul 23 Jun 2013

U.S. govt has role to play in stopping commodity-driven deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Jun 2013

Palm oil expansion endangering rare frogs in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2013

Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, environmental toll

Anne Usher 3 Jun 2013

Environmentalists unhappy with new palm oil standard

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2013

Brazil’s success in reducing deforestation will be hard to replicate

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2013

Brazil threatens $282m in fines for beef linked to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2013

6 lessons for stopping deforestation on the frontier

Daniel Nepstad 9 Apr 2013

30% of Brazil’s emissions from deforestation are export-driven

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Apr 2013

Deforestation, wetlands loss in Brazil and Indonesia generated 45b tons of CO2 in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2013

Recovery of Atlantic Forest depends on land-use histories

Thomas Handley 10 Dec 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2012

90 percent of oil palm plantations came at expense of forest in Kalimantan

Jeremy Hance 8 Oct 2012

Agriculture causes 80% of tropical deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2012

Chart: Forest loss in Latin America

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Aug 2012

Pre-industrial deforestation still warming atmosphere

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2012

Carbon debt for some biofuels lasts centuries

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2011

Kenya should embrace living with nature as the model for a healthier, wealthier nation

Paula Kahumbu 27 Sep 2011

Brazil’s cerrado wins protection, but will it be enough to save the wildlife-rich grassland?

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2010
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Is Amazon conservation worth more than clearing for cattle or soy?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2007

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