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The week in environmental news – Dec 12, 2015

Brittany Stewart 12 Dec 2015

The week in environmental news – Dec 4, 2015

Brittany Stewart 5 Dec 2015

Climate catastrophe avoidable if tropical deforestation halved, say scientists

Ethan Harfenist 3 Dec 2015

The inadequate global zoo response to the amphibian extinction crisis

John-Rob Pool 3 Dec 2015

Conservationists Want to Track Biodiversity — from Space

Alexandra Ossola 3 Dec 2015
Sunset over the Sumatran rainforest

New short film urges world to ‘stop the burning’

Rhett A. Butler 3 Dec 2015

New mapping platform sees the forest for the carbon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Dec 2015

Meet the world’s 25 most endangered primates

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Nov 2015

Rainforests could provide half global climate solution by 2050

Rhett A. Butler 25 Nov 2015

DNA and beyond: The challenges of identifying wood and addressing illegal timber products

Caleb O'Brien 25 Nov 2015

World’s vast boreal forests could ‘hit a tipping point’ this century, scientists say

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2015

Poisonous amphibians may be more likely to go extinct

Erin E.A. Ross 23 Nov 2015

South African ranchers propose controversial plan to save our rhinos

Brittany Stewart 20 Nov 2015
A kelp forest off the California Coast, where pockets of full protection alternate with zones allowing limited fishing. Photo by Greg Asner.

Ocean protections drift behind those on land, but science can help

Natalie Jacewicz 20 Nov 2015

New ‘Forest 500’ report finds both public and private sector have long way to go on deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 20 Nov 2015
Tourists can spread invasive species on unwashed fishing kits. Photo courtesy of Paula Rosewarn.

Invasive species hop on tourists worldwide

Amy McDermott 20 Nov 2015

Could these technologies reduce shark attacks and culls?

Roz Evans 19 Nov 2015

Rising global temperatures could shrink paychecks by almost one-fourth

Mike Gaworecki 19 Nov 2015

The miraculous Moringa tree: potential solution for world malnutrition

Taryn Farber 18 Nov 2015

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

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2015

Remote sensing is leading the way to a more transparent world

Nathan Hahn, Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Nov 2015

To tackle climate change cheaply, first secure indigenous forest rights

Sandra Cuffe 17 Nov 2015

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

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Nov 2015

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

Brittany Stewart 15 Nov 2015

Using drones for anti-poaching: first, know your mission

NIr Tenenbaum 13 Nov 2015

First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect land held by Indigenous communities

Basten Gokkon, Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2015

To kill or not to kill? Scientists debate specimen collection

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2015

An optimistic call for saving life on Earth

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2015

It looks like we may be headed for a more ‘pro-animal’ future

Brittany Stewart 6 Nov 2015

Scientists launch global shark and ray census

Kolawole Talabi 2 Nov 2015

Dare to explore the spookier side of nature

Brittany Stewart 31 Oct 2015

Climate change publications biased towards ‘richer, cooler and less vulnerable countries’

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Oct 2015

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