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Palm oil company revs up deforestation in Malaysia

Ethan Harfenist 19 Nov 2015

Latin American wildlife trafficking takes to the air

Lindsay Fendt 19 Nov 2015

Could these technologies reduce shark attacks and culls?

Roz Evans 19 Nov 2015
The study authors counted carcasses from hundreds of markets like this one, where visitors can purchase whole birds and their body parts. Photo by Gerhard Nikolaus.

Vanishing vultures: Africa’s fetish and bushmeat trade is driving its scavengers to extinction

Brendan Bane 19 Nov 2015

Fires smoulder and floods soak Sumatra as RSPO calls for palm oil reform

Mongabay Haze Beat 19 Nov 2015

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

Rising global temperatures could shrink paychecks by almost one-fourth

Mike Gaworecki 19 Nov 2015

Wolves of the microscopic world: new Dracula ant species found in Madagascar

Vinod Malwatte 18 Nov 2015

The miraculous Moringa tree: potential solution for world malnutrition

Taryn Farber 18 Nov 2015

Farmed and legally exported Colombian poison frogs take on the illegal pet trade

John-Rob Pool 18 Nov 2015

50% of world’s natural history specimens may have wrong names

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2015

VP Kalla fans flames in Manila as Indonesia presses on with water bombing

Mongabay Haze Beat 18 Nov 2015

Rapidly-spreading fire destroyed over half of the Amazon forest in the Brazilian state of Maranhão

Carolina Torres 18 Nov 2015

Water supply for 2 billion people at risk as snowpack declines across northern hemisphere

Mike Gaworecki 18 Nov 2015

After the NGOs: can Wakatobi National Park survive on its own?

Melati Kaye 18 Nov 2015

Superhighway construction surges forward in Nigeria

John Cannon 17 Nov 2015
Air pollution from outdoor cooking fires like this contribute to millions of global deaths, according to the study. Photo by Engineering for Change / Flickr.

Air pollution causes millions of preventable deaths in East Asia, say scientists

Ramin Skibba 17 Nov 2015
A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) climbs a tree at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding and Conservation Center in Sichuan, China. Photo by Binbin Li, Duke University

Protecting pandas shields other species in China

Laurel Hamers 17 Nov 2015

To tackle climate change cheaply, first secure indigenous forest rights

Sandra Cuffe 17 Nov 2015

From fires to floods: Indonesia’s disaster agency prepares for rain

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Nov 2015

INTERPOL: Environmental crimes increasingly converging with crimes like murder and drug trafficking

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Nov 2015
Sumatran tiger

Aceh’s priceless Leuser Ecosystem still shrinking as oil palm spreads

Cory Rogers 17 Nov 2015

Increased deforestation in the Amazon could mean far less rainfall

Mike Gaworecki 17 Nov 2015

Journey to oblivion: unraveling Latin America’s illegal wildlife trade

Laurel Neme 16 Nov 2015

Cameroon convicts activist campaigning against palm oil company

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Nov 2015

El Salvador serves as bridge for export of trafficked Nicaraguan birds

Carlos Chávez 16 Nov 2015
Young orangutan orphaned by the palm oil industry when its mother was killed in a plantation in Central Kalimantan. This orangutan was one of the lucky ones -- it ended up in a rehabilitation center rather than dying of starvation or being sold into the pet trade.

Greenwashing? RSPO audits rife with ‘mistakes and fraud,’ report finds

Jonathan Vit 16 Nov 2015

Singapore calls end of haze this year as Indonesia continues to push peat plans

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 Nov 2015

The Holy Trinity: how Wakatobi’s coral stays healthy and diverse

Melati Kaye 16 Nov 2015

This ‘critical gift’ for Peru will benefit the whole world

Brittany Stewart 15 Nov 2015

Singapore court: illicit timber trafficking through our ports not our problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Nov 2015

Video: The Terminator blows up ivory tusk, joins anti-poaching campaign

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2015

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