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China to shut down 4,300 old coal mines, ban new coal mines

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jan 2016

Aceh citizens sue government to save Leuser Ecosystem

Cory Rogers 22 Jan 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio puts millions toward nature conservation

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2016

Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jan 2016

Popular pet fish listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act

Ret Talbot 21 Jan 2016

32 million metric tons of global fish catch goes unreported every year, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Jan 2016

Rediscovered tree frogs get their own genus, eat their own eggs

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Jan 2016

Photos: Can helping local people save an embattled Nigerian park?

Lawal Sani Kona 20 Jan 2016

Widespread death of evergreens predicted in American Southwest

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jan 2016

Scientists survey 50 Americans homes, find more than 500 kinds of arthropods

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Jan 2016

Quantifying the aquarium trade to help it become more sustainable

Ret Talbot 20 Jan 2016

International embargo on exports of Madagascar’s precious woods extended

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jan 2016

A new reserve for the world’s smallest deer

Ethan Harfenist 19 Jan 2016

Indonesia’s ore-smelting ambitions augur rain of poison in Sulawesi

Melati Kaye 19 Jan 2016

India, China, Indonesia score lowest when it comes to tropical forest protection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jan 2016

Alarming proof of underreported bushmeat crisis in heart of Amazonia

Chaney Giordano 19 Jan 2016

Fighting climate change means protecting forests and wildlife

Russell A. Mittermeier 19 Jan 2016

The week in environmental news – Jan 15, 2016

Brittany Stewart 15 Jan 2016

Brazilian court suspends operating license for Belo Monte dam

Glenn Scherer 15 Jan 2016

Peru terminates head of forest watchdog agency

Ruxandra Guidi 15 Jan 2016

Countries call for new CITES protections for rosewood species

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

Malaysia plans road expansion through dwindling elephant, orangutan habitat

John Cannon 14 Jan 2016

Mining company executives indicted in Brazil over the country’s largest environmental disaster

Jenny Gonzales 14 Jan 2016

Is eco-certification the solution to forest destruction?

Saul Elbein 14 Jan 2016

Forest loss increased annually for 25 years at oldest Amazon mega-dam

Claire Salisbury 14 Jan 2016

Is intensification helping the cattle industry go Amazon deforestation-free?

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

As education grows so does the awareness of conserving biodiversity

Brittany Stewart 14 Jan 2016

Release herpes virus to kill invasive carp in Australia, groups urge

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Jan 2016

Are prosthetic reefs the answer to Indonesia’s coral die-off?

Melati Kaye 14 Jan 2016

Rainforest Alliance hires Global Forest Watch head as President

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2016
A Bornean tarsier. Photo by Russ Mittermeier.

Potential crisis in Sabah’s amazing Kinabatangan rainforest

Russell A. Mittermeier 13 Jan 2016
Wood fiber concession on recently cleared peatland in Riau Province, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia appoints conservationist to save country’s declining peatlands

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jan 2016

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