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Biomass burning accounts for 18% of CO2 emissions, kills a quarter of a million people annually

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2014

It’s not just extinction: meet defaunation

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

‘Stop using the bloody things’: pesticides linked to bee collapse now blamed for bird declines

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2014

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

Unrelenting population growth driving global warming, mass extinction

Jeremy Hance 26 Jun 2014

April 2014: 350th month in a row with temperatures above average

Jeremy Hance 4 Jun 2014

Turning point? U.S. and China announce major actions on global warming

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2014

Extinction rates are 1,000x the background rate, but it’s not all gloomy

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2014

Climate change’s ominous secret

Larry Kraft 21 May 2014

Tipping point already reached? West Antarctica in slow-motion, unstoppable melt

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2014

Stanford kicks coal out of its $18 billion endowment

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Maps for the masses

Dr Liz Kimbrough 18 Apr 2014

Climate change solution? UN touts ambitious (but cheap) investment in renewable energy

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Empowering everyone to watch over forests

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Apr 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 31 Mar 2014

Predator appreciation: how saving lions, tigers, and polar bears could rescue ourselves

Gabriel Thoumi 29 Jan 2014

Carbon emissions rise 2 percent in U.S. due to increase in coal

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2014

Over 75 percent of large predators declining

Jeremy Hance 9 Jan 2014

Down Under scorching: Australia experiences warmest year on record

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2014

Global warming could upset Antarctic food chain

Raja Bandi 2 Jan 2014

World first: Russia begins pumping oil from Arctic seabed

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Making cap-and-trade work: the history and future of a proven program

Owen Reynolds 9 Dec 2013

Top scientists propose ambitious plans to safeguard world from devastating climate change

Jeremy Hance 5 Dec 2013

Microhabitats could buffer some rainforest animals against climate change

Jeremy Hance 25 Nov 2013

60,000 protest in Australia to keep carbon price

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2013

Japan pledges to raise carbon emissions, instead of cutting them

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2013

World’s most vulnerable nation to climate change turns to coal power

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2013

Is Australia becoming the new Canada in terms of climate inaction?

Jeremy Hance 14 Nov 2013

Philippines’ delegate calls out climate change deniers after Haiyan

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2013

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