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

Scientific association calls on Nicaragua to scrap its Gran Canal

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

Climate coup: Rockefeller announces they are dropping fossil fuel investments

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

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

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

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

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

Price of ivory triples in China

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

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

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

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

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

Dams be damned: study finds large dams are too expensive

China pledges $10 million to combat poaching in Africa

Stanford kicks coal out of its $18 billion endowment

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

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

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

Cocaine: the new face of deforestation in Central America

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

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

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

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

Zoos join fossil fuel divestment movement

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

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

Divestment campaign could cause considerable damage to fossil fuel industry

Climate change policy is just good economics

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

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