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What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

Greener neighborhoods have less violent crime

An insidious threat to tropical forests: over-hunting endangers tree species in Asia and Africa

Domesticated bees do not replace declining wild insects as agricultural pollinators

Progress in incentive-based protection of forests and other watersheds

Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaughtered elephants taking rainforest trees with them

The need to jump-start REDD to save forests

EU pushes ban on pesticides linked to bee downfall

Featured video: the miracle of mangroves

Controversial research outlines physics behind how forests may bring rain

Over $8 billion invested in watersheds in 2011

Forests in Kenya worth much more intact says government report

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Local and Regional Policy – a book review

Scary caterpillar fungus could lead to new cancer drug

World has lost half its wetlands

Investors shouldn’t ignore financial risk of environmental damage

Legislation leaves future of world’s largest temperate rainforest up in the air

Wolves, mole rats, and nyala: the struggle to conserve Ethiopia’s highlands

Future of the Tongass forest lies in salmon, not clear-cut logging

India pledges over $60 million for biodiversity, but experts say much more needed

Saving the world’s species from oblivion will cost around $80 billion a year, but still a good deal

Forest destruction leads to more floods in temperate regions

Learning to live with elephants in Malaysia

Arachnopocalypse: with birds away, the spiders play in Guam

Bird diversity at risk if ‘agroforests’ replaced with farmland

Mangroves protect coastal areas against storm damage

Amazon deforestation could trigger drop in rainfall across South America

Rainforest fungi, plants fuel rainfall

Private reserve safeguards newly discovered frogs in Ecuadorian cloud forest

Human society surpasses ‘nature’s budget’ today

Mangroves should be part of solution to climate change

Guyana rainforests secure trust fund

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