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The unknown role of coextinctions in the current extinction crisis

Excluding forest carbon from climate policy will spur massive deforestation

Oil and gas bonanza discovered in the Arctic

Permian mass extinction caused by giant volcanic eruption

Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land

Sushi restaurant, Nobu, warns patrons not to eat bluefin tuna, but serves it anyway

Dirt road converted into artificial island for birds in Eastern Turkey

Rooks use tools in captivity rivaling ‘habitual tools users such as chimpanzees’

Rich countries buy up agricultural land in poor countries

Starfish may benefit from global warming

Conservation through commerce in Costa Rica

New rainforest reserve in Congo benefits bonobos and locals

Conservation of Mexico’s ungulate species explored

Photos: top 10 species discovered in 2008

Vietnam’s commercial wildlife farms threaten Asia’s species

Did Malaysia cancel plans for palm oil development in the Amazon?

U.S. CO2 emissions fall 2.8% in 2008

Chevron faces shareholder rebuke on claims by Amazon rainforest Indians

Asia’s conversion of forests for industrial rubber plantations hurts the environment

Drought threatens rare desert elephants

85 percent of oyster reefs gone, threatening coastal environments and a favored delicacy

Green groups, corporations call for forest conservation to counter global warming

Voluntary carbon markets double in 2008

Global warming estimates double in severity according to new MIT modeling

Study refutes criticism of polar bear listing under the Endangered Species Act

APP, Sinar Mas plan to log habitat of critically endangered orangutans

Peru may take military action against Indians protesting Amazon energy development

UN: Population growth rates fall to 1.1 percent in Asia-Pacific

Six nations pledge to protect the Coral Triangle

Komodo dragons are venomous

Obama to increase fuel economy standard to 35 mpg by 2016

Scientists find world’s largest leatherback sea turtle population in Gabon

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