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Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Gustavo Faleiros, Images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 25 Mar 2019
The mudslide near Brumadinho via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Dam holding mining waste collapses in Brazil

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2019

Global marine wilderness has dwindled to 13 percent, new map reveals

John Cannon 26 Jul 2018

In Bali fish die-offs, researchers spot a human hand

Luh De Suriyani 22 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy, Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

David Suzuki on why indigenous knowledge is critical for human survival

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jan 2018

Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted

Claire Salisbury 5 Jul 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus. Photo by Jason Hollinger.

New lichen database takes big picture approach to forest monitoring

Amy McDermott 22 May 2017

Nitrogen pollution slows down forest decomposers

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Mar 2017

How citizen science is transforming river management in Malaysian Borneo (commentary)

Ken Wilson 29 Nov 2016

Rio Olympic organizers fail to meet all environmental goals

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jul 2016

World’s vast boreal forests could ‘hit a tipping point’ this century, scientists say

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2015

Planting meadows in the ocean: technique may help restore disappearing seagrass beds

Anna Ikarashi 11 Aug 2014

Too much of a good thing: fertilizer ‘one of the three major drivers of biodiversity loss this century’

Paul Sutherland 14 Jul 2014

Tipping point already reached? West Antarctica in slow-motion, unstoppable melt

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2014

Does haze from burning forests affect marine life?

Jeremy Hance 10 Mar 2014

Mesoamerican Reef needs more local support, says report

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Sep 2013

Measuring nutrient pollution in pristine waters: Puerto Rico’s Vieques Island

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2012

Organic yields lag behind industrial farming, but that’s not the whole story

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2012

Jellyfish explosion may be natural cycle

Jeremy Hance 6 Feb 2012

Ocean prognosis: mass extinction

Jeremy Hance 20 Jun 2011

Record dead zone projected due to Midwest floods

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2011

Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

Gabriel Thoumi 23 May 2011

Australia’s floods threaten Great Barrier Reef

Emily Kirkland 18 Jan 2011

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