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Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Logging, wildlife trade drive sun bears toward extinction

Bushmeat trade “most significant” threat to Africa’s wildlife says Richard Leakey

U.S. Congress passes legislation to boost solar, wind, and geothermal energy

Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and conflict

U.S. ignores laws on e-waste disposal

Malaysian palm oil industry accused of child slavery by the Indonesian government

Commercial bushmeat trade is devastating wildlife

Prince Charles says hedge funds could save rainforests

Old growth forests are giant carbon sinks, helping offset emissions

Small-scale fisheries are “best hope” for sustainability in developing world

Rare monkeys double in number in China but remain under threat

Obama talks science: ocean health, water scarcity, climate change, and more

Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world’s rarest gorilla

Ghana becomes first country to sign sustainable timber pact with the E.U.

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Republicans backtrack, call for end to ethanol requirements in gas

Indonesian raids on tiger traffickers yielding arrests in Sumatra

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru’s President Garcia

Palm oil producers in Indonesia reject moratorium on forest destruction

Scientists condemn Bush plan for endangered species

Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation

Malaysian logging scandal may delay trade negotiations with the E.U.

Presidential candidate John McCain’s love-hate relationship with bears

In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon

Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon

Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won’t increase significantly for 2008

No scientists necessary: Bush administration’s new plans regarding endangered species

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