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US ambassador reiterates commitment to controversial Okinawa air base, a setback for endangered dugong

Greg Norman 6 Jul 2015

Expert panel rebukes Japan’s new whaling proposal

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2015

Reports slam Malaysian timber companies, urge reforms in forest management

Ethan Harfenist 27 Feb 2015

Reports blame illegal logging for felling Sarawak forest

Ethan Harfenist 25 Feb 2015

Progress being made in curbing illegal timber imports

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2014

Green Climate Fund nears $7 billion after U.S. pledges $3 billion

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2014

An uncertain future: world’s last wild Siberian tigers threatened by illegal logging, global warming, disease (PART II)

Sandhya Sekar 22 Aug 2014

Logging of Russian Far East damaging tiger habitat, few intact forests protected (Part I)

Sandhya Sekar 19 Aug 2014

Want to save Africa’s elephants? Close all ivory markets

Jeremy Hance 7 Aug 2014

No restrictions: Japan’s demand for illegal wood driving rampant deforestation in Siberia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

Japan changes its mind about Antarctic whaling ban, plans to continue hunts in 2015

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2014

Court partially stops Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling, but Pacific harvests to continue

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Apr 2014

Scientists discover new eagle ray imperiled by Japanese pest program (photos)

Jeremy Hance 30 Jan 2014

Photos: Japanese fishermen slaughter 41 dolphins, capture 52 in ‘The Cove’

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2014

Japanese whale hunt stopped, for now

Mongabay.com 6 Jan 2014

Reforestation can’t offset massive fossil fuels emissions

Bobbie Edwards 13 Dec 2013

Citizen groups walk out of UN Climate Summit to protest lack of ambition

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2013

The quicksilver demon: rogue gold-mining is the world’s largest source of mercury pollution

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 20 Nov 2013

Japan pledges to raise carbon emissions, instead of cutting them

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2013

‘Remarkable year’: could 2012 mark the beginning of a carbon emissions slowdown?

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2013

‘Sustainable’ tropical timber trade a misnomer, says group

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2013

Japanese firms buying illegal timber from Malaysia’s endangered rainforests

Diana Parker 10 Sep 2013

Australia aims to end Japan’s whaling

Justin Mccurry 27 Jun 2013

Japan killed record low number of whales

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2013

Sharks and rays win protections at CITES

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

Giant squid caught on video

Jeremy Hance 8 Jan 2013

Photo: Bluefin tuna sells for record $1.76 million in Japan

Mongabay.com 5 Jan 2013

Wealthy nations’ fossil fuel subsidies dwarf climate financing

Jeremy Hance 5 Dec 2012

Japan declares its river otter extinct

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2012

Interview with the new CEO of The GEF, the world’s largest funder of environmental projects

Mark Szotek 30 Jul 2012

China’s per capita emissions nearly as high as Europe’s

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2012

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