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Requiem or recovery?: the Sumatran rhino 200 years after its description

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

Featured documentary: Damocracy, highlighting the battles over the Belo Monte and Ilisu dams

Humans killed over 10 percent of the world’s bird species when they colonized the Pacific Islands

Scientists nearly double the number of biogeographic realms

Elephant ancestors and Africa’s Bigfoot: new initiative works to preserve a continent’s wildest tales

Experts dispute recent study that claims little impact by pre-Columbian tribes in Amazon

Pre-industrial deforestation still warming atmosphere

Rio+20 and economic perils in Europe: opportunity for linkage

Oceans heating up for over 100 years

Humans drove rainforest into savannah in ancient Africa

Prehistoric Peruvians enjoyed popcorn

Will Taiwan save its last pristine coastline?

Evidence mounts that Maya did themselves in through deforestation

Scientists confirm ancient Egyptian knowledge: Nile crocodile is two species

Climate change may fuel increase in warfare, finds study

Into Colombia’s Sierra Nevada

Selling the Forests that Saved Britain

How Genghis Khan cooled the planet

History repeats itself: the path to extinction is still paved with greed and waste

Well-known climate change denialist labels activists in Copenhagen ‘Hitler Youth’

Destructive farming practices of early civilization may have altered climate long before industrial era

Da Vinci’s lion comes back to life

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