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Cocaine: the new face of deforestation in Central America

The lemur end-game: scientists propose ambitious plan to save the world’s most imperiled mammal family

Obama announces new strategy to tackle wildlife trafficking, including toughening ivory ban

Proposed rail and road projects could devastate Nepal’s tigers and rhinos

Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people

Australia proposes removing old-growth forests from World Heritage Site

Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade agreement to sacrifice wildlife, environment

World first: Russia begins pumping oil from Arctic seabed

Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

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

Fracking: the good, the bad and the ugly

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

Bangladesh plans massive coal plant in world’s biggest mangrove forest

Could camera trap videos galvanize the world to protect Yasuni from oil drilling?

France upholds nationwide ban on fracking

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Tanzania should implement shoot-to-kill policy for poachers, says government minister

Unlikely success: how Zimbabwe has become a global leader in rhino conservation

Malaysia clearcutting forest reserves for timber and palm oil

Climate change policy is just good economics

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

U.S. to crush its six ton ivory stockpile

Loose laws threaten Australia’s wildlife

A year after devastating attack, security returns to the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (photos)

Tools against climate change: carbon tax and cap-and-trade

China punishes top oil companies for failing to clean up their acts

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

In defense of the financial industry: stocking up to end climate change

Featured video: Sumatra’s last elephants versus palm oil

Dominican Republic sends bulldozers to destroy wildlife reserve, home to endangered species

Plan to preserve the world’s ‘last ocean’ killed by Russia

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