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

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

Adaptation to climate change will be difficult for Madagascar

Mangroves are key to healthy fisheries, finds study

Shell Oil funds “open source” geoengineering project to fight global warming

Destruction of wetlands worsens global warming

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

Tropical biodiversity on “a trajectory toward disaster”

Guiana Shield forests help preserve biodiversity and climate

Amazon beef producer creates eco-certified meat product with help of scientists

Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo

Environmental damage costs $4.8 trillion annually

Future cities will be more like ecosystems that enrich society and the environment

Greenpeace says carbon fund will save forests and climate

Defaunation, like deforestation, threatens global biodiversity

Carbon market could fund rainforest conservation, fight climate change

Prince Charles calls for rainforest protection to fight climate change

U.S. climate policy could help save rainforests

Al Gore’s investment firm bets that rainforest conservation will be profitable

Papua signs REDD carbon deal to generate income from rainforest protection

Biodiversity key to fighting climate change

New cures for human ailments under threat by global extinction crisis

Rainforest recovery after deforestation can be enhanced by artificial bat houses

Rainforest peoples form alliance to demand payments for forest carbon credits

Bats protect crops from insects

Bats eat as many insects as birds

Investing to save rainforests

Private equity firm buys rights to ecosystem services of Guyana rainforest

Markets could save forests: An interview with Dr. Tom Lovejoy

Why Europe torpedoed the REDD forests-for-carbon credits initiative

Fighting illegal logging to be a top G8 priority in 2008

American demand for gas, big cars begins to wane

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