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Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Sep 2019

National parks: Serving humanity’s well-being as much as nature’s

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2019

Global warming is exacerbating global economic inequality: Study

Mongabay.com 10 May 2019

Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds

Loren Bell 6 May 2019

Hunting, fishing causing dramatic decline in Amazon river dolphins

Claire Asher 13 Jun 2018

The 101 on how global trade treaties came to threaten the environment

Jennifer Huizen 8 Sep 2016

Human impact on environment may be slowing down: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Aug 2016

How important is corporate social responsibility to building a green economy?

Mike Gaworecki 9 May 2016

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

Rising global temperatures could shrink paychecks by almost one-fourth

Mike Gaworecki 19 Nov 2015

Indonesian villagers transform ailing forests into oasis of fruit

Sapariah Saturi 8 Sep 2015

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

Employing shame for environmental change

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2015

Norway sovereign fund drops coal, tar sands, gold-mining companies

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2015

Accounting for natural capital on financial exchanges

Sarah Friedman 26 Jan 2015

Green Climate Fund nears $7 billion after U.S. pledges $3 billion

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2014

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

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

Jeremy Hance 27 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

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

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

Jeremy Hance 31 Mar 2014

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

Meghan Walsh 5 Mar 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2014

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

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