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Researchers say addressing the second D in REDD can benefit the climate while ensuring timber harvests

Mike Gaworecki 17 Aug 2016
Rainstorm approaching across the Mara savanna (East Africa). Photo by Rhett Butler.

Savannas and grasslands are more biodiverse than you might think — and we’re not doing enough to conserve them

Mike Gaworecki 16 Aug 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016

REDD+ funds are being put to work in the right places: report

Mike Gaworecki 16 Aug 2016

Solving Global Grand Challenges, One MOOC at a Time

Taylor Robb-McCord 12 Aug 2016

Deforestation: a lingering legacy

John Cannon 10 Aug 2016

Trees share carbon: new discovery may be key to saving trees in a warming world

Christina Selby 10 Aug 2016

Should you be concerned about plastic and other human debris in your seafood?

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2016

How to use the Bloomberg Terminal for advocacy work: advanced tools

Dan Williams 8 Aug 2016

Humpback whales rescue seals and other animals from killer whales

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Aug 2016

DART-TOFMS: Finding the chemistry in wood

Taylor Robb-McCord 3 Aug 2016

International Tiger Day: How are tigers faring now?

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2016
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

“Carbon farming” good for the climate, farmers, and biodiversity

Erik Hoffner 28 Jul 2016
A mangrove forest in Daintree, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

On World Mangrove Day, 9 things to know about these tough plants

Melati Kaye 26 Jul 2016

Why helping civil society investigate illegal timber is about much more than protecting forests and forest peoples [commentary]

Sam Lawson 25 Jul 2016
Deforestation for a rubber plantation in Laos. While scientists have been pointing for years to the problems caused by natural forest conversion to rubber plantations, activist groups had been slow to target rubber relative to other commodities like soy, palm oil oil, timber, and wood-fiber.

“Ecological recession”: Researchers say biodiversity loss has hit critical threshold across the globe

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2016

Piloting PALM Risk to detect palm oil-driven deforestation

Julia John 20 Jul 2016

Some global brands are getting creative to lower their carbon footprints

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jul 2016

Whale sharks inch closer to extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jul 2016

9 new natural sites added to World Heritage List

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2016

What future is there for Africa’s lions?

Bill Konstant, Rick Barongi 15 Jul 2016

Putting the ‘evidence’ in evidence-based forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2016

GDELT: Mining and mapping global wildlife crime news

Julia John 7 Jul 2016

Bringing Star Trek tricorder analysis to the 21st century

Hina Alam 4 Jul 2016

Greenpeace fires back at Nobel laureates calling for end to campaign against genetically engineered food

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jul 2016

5 Tech Projects That Are Protecting Sharks

Taylor Robb-McCord 30 Jun 2016

Countries with most biodiversity spend least on conservation: study

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jun 2016
Photo credit: David Olson.

A World of Tings

Taylor Robb-McCord 28 Jun 2016

Scientists call on EU businesses, govts to support greener palm oil

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2016

Combining high-tech and low-tech to turn satellite images into action

Nathan Hahn 24 Jun 2016

Researchers forecast extreme displacement of tropical wildlife even under moderate warming scenarios

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jun 2016

US oil and gas production ‘dramatically’ increasing harmful ozone-causing ethane

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jun 2016

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