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Can we stop runaway global warming? ‘All we need is the will to change’

Jeremy Hance 3 Nov 2014

Scientific association calls on Nicaragua to scrap its Gran Canal

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2014

Elephants worth much, much more alive than dead, says new report

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Oct 2014

Climate coup: Rockefeller announces they are dropping fossil fuel investments

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2014

The threat of traditional medicine: China’s boom may mean doom for turtles

Erin Crandall 8 Aug 2014

Want to save Africa’s elephants? Close all ivory markets

Jeremy Hance 7 Aug 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

Price of ivory triples in China

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Playing games to understand what drives deforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2014

Global warming puts trillions at stake, but mitigation offers big economic gains

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2014

EPA carbon proposal may be crucial step in addressing global climate change

Owen Reynolds 10 Jun 2014

New study finds environmental damage globally may cost more than U.S. GDP

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Jun 2014

Tipping the scale: how a political economist could save the world’s forests

Wendee Nicole 29 May 2014

Dams be damned: study finds large dams are too expensive

Paul Sutherland 19 May 2014

China pledges $10 million to combat poaching in Africa

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2014

Stanford kicks coal out of its $18 billion endowment

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2014

Apocalypse now? Climate change already damaging agriculture, acidifying seas, and worsening extreme weather

Jeremy Hance 31 Mar 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Quantifying the cost of forest degradation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2014

The best of the worst: fossil-fuel extractors pave the way for the low-carbon revolution

Owen Reynolds 26 Mar 2014

Cocaine: the new face of deforestation in Central America

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Mar 2014

The price of gold: winners and losers in Latin America’s mining industry

Meghan Walsh 5 Mar 2014

Ecotourism pays: study finds lower poverty where nature-based tourism is prevalent

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2014

Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade agreement to sacrifice wildlife, environment

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2014

Making cap-and-trade work: the history and future of a proven program

Owen Reynolds 9 Dec 2013

Zoos join fossil fuel divestment movement

Jeremy Hance 5 Nov 2013

America’s growing inequality helped scuttle the global climate change initiative

Owen Reynolds 28 Oct 2013

David Attenborough: someone who believes in infinite growth is ‘either a madman or an economist’

Mark Riley Cardwell 16 Oct 2013

Divestment campaign could cause considerable damage to fossil fuel industry

Damian Carrington 8 Oct 2013

Climate change policy is just good economics

Owen Reynolds 25 Sep 2013

Tools against climate change: carbon tax and cap-and-trade

Owen Reynolds 4 Sep 2013

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