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Featured video: Showtime releases first episode of major new climate change series online

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2014

How locals and conservationists saved the elephants of Mali amidst conflict and poverty

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2014

Is Brazil’s epic drought a taste of the future?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2014

Drought, fire reducing ability of Amazon rainforest to store carbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2014

Amazon rainforest does not ‘green up’ during the dry season

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2014

NASA picture reveals shocking impact of California’s drought

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2014

Amazon deforestation could cause droughts in California

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2013

Deforestation may hurt U.S. agriculture, affect monsoon cycle

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2013

Worst drought in 30 years threatens millions in southern Africa with food insecurity

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2013

Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extinction

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2013

Fracking sucks up all the water from Texas town

Suzanne Goldenberg 15 Aug 2013

Amazon fire risk on the rise, says NASA

Mongabay.com 9 Jun 2013

NASA: 3% of Amazon rainforest burned between 1999-2010

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jun 2013

Water crisis widening: 4.5 billion people live near ‘impaired water sources’

Fiona Harvey 28 May 2013

Featured video: How climate change is messing with the jetstream

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2013

‘Suffering…without witnesses’: over a quarter of a million people perished in Somali famine

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2013

Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2013

Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2013

Featured video: stemming human-caused fires in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Apr 2013

Innovative idea: wildlife income may help people withstand drought in Africa

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

Climate change already pummeling U.S. according to government report

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2013

Australia reels from record heatwave, fires

Jeremy Hance 9 Jan 2013

2012 was America’s warmest year on record

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2013

Amazon rainforest failing to recover after droughts

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2012

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Climate-linked drought cutting forests’ carbon-storing ability

Congo rainforest losing its greenness, finds NASA

Rainforests on fire: climate change is pushing the Amazon over the edge

Featured video: Showtime releases first episode of major new climate change series online

How locals and conservationists saved the elephants of Mali amidst conflict and poverty

Is Brazil’s epic drought a taste of the future?

Drought, fire reducing ability of Amazon rainforest to store carbon

Amazon rainforest does not ‘green up’ during the dry season

NASA picture reveals shocking impact of California’s drought

Amazon deforestation could cause droughts in California

Deforestation may hurt U.S. agriculture, affect monsoon cycle

Worst drought in 30 years threatens millions in southern Africa with food insecurity

Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extinction

Fracking sucks up all the water from Texas town

Amazon fire risk on the rise, says NASA

NASA: 3% of Amazon rainforest burned between 1999-2010

Water crisis widening: 4.5 billion people live near ‘impaired water sources’

Featured video: How climate change is messing with the jetstream

‘Suffering…without witnesses’: over a quarter of a million people perished in Somali famine

Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest

Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion

Featured video: stemming human-caused fires in the Amazon

Innovative idea: wildlife income may help people withstand drought in Africa

Climate change already pummeling U.S. according to government report

Australia reels from record heatwave, fires

2012 was America’s warmest year on record

Amazon rainforest failing to recover after droughts

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2012