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Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019

Arctic in trouble: Sea ice melt falls to record lows for early April

Gloria Dickie 11 Apr 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019
A juvenile Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in the Pantanal. Tapirs have been found to disperse seeds in disturbed Amazon forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tapirs could be key in helping degraded rainforests bounce back

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019

Antarctica now shedding ice six times faster than in 1979

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2019

A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire

Peter Moon 6 Sep 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

So long, UNESCO! What does U.S. withdrawal mean for the environment?

Giovanni Ortolani 26 Dec 2017

Antarctica’s Larsen C calves giant 5,800 square kilometer iceberg

Gloria Dickie 12 Jul 2017

From cryosphere to blogosphere, sea ice enthusiasts track Arctic melt

Gloria Dickie 26 Jun 2017

The March for Science makes its stand: “There is no Planet B”

Sharon Guynup story and photos 24 Apr 2017

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

Amazon’s flood/drought cycle becoming more extreme, less predictable

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2013

Mount Everest glaciers have shrunk 13% in 50 years

Mongabay.com 13 May 2013

Last time CO2 hit 400 ppm, temperature was 8C warmer, seas 40m higher than today

Damian Carrington 12 May 2013

Eruption yields bad news for iron fertilization-based geoengineering schemes

Rhett A. Butler 22 Mar 2013

NASA says 2012 was the 9th warmest year since 1880, blames global warming

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2013

Soot is second biggest man-made contributor to global warming

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2013

Paradigm shift needed to avert global environmental collapse, according to author of new book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Jan 2013

Forests worldwide near tipping-point from drought

Rhett A. Butler 23 Nov 2012

Geology has split the Amazon into two distinct forests

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2012

The Global Carbon Cycle: a book review

Book Reviewgabriel Thoumi 19 Sep 2011

Google Earth enhances oceans’ layer

Jeremy Hance 8 Jun 2011

Climate change and deforestation pose risk to Amazon rainforest

Karimeh Moukaddem 20 May 2011

Earthquake shifted peninsula in Japan 17 feet

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2011

Did Haiti’s deforestation, hurricane trigger deadly earthquake?

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2011

2010 the second hottest year on record through May

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2010

List of the strongest and deadliest earthquakes

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2010

Climate change melting southern Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2010

Desertification threatens 38 percent of the world

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2010

Underwater rocks could be used for massive carbon storage on America’s East Coast

Jeremy Hance 5 Jan 2010

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