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New tree species discovered in Amazon biodiversity hotspot

Special To Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2008

Account of 18th century Amazon adventurer to be published for the first time

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

20% of the Brazilian Amazon’s tree species to go extinct

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

Global warming causes plants to move to higher elevations

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2008

Elephants may explain Mount Kilimanjaro’s bamboo enigma

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2008

Global warming threatens California’s native plants

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2008

Hunting, deforestation wipe out 6 of 7 hornbill species in Borneo park

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

Reforestation a growing, but complicated, initiative

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2008

New discoveries about past forest changes may help predict future ones in a changing climate

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2008

Lemurs are key to health of Madagascar’s rainforests

Rhett A. Butler 12 Jun 2008

Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants

Rhett A. Butler 11 Jun 2008

Group files for ESA protection of 681 species in 12 states

Jeremy Hance 21 May 2008

Defaunation, like deforestation, threatens global biodiversity

Rhett A. Butler 20 May 2008

Insect diversity in the tropics greater than previously believed

Mongabay.com 15 May 2008

Biodiversity key to fighting climate change

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2008

Giant exploding palm tree discovered in Madagascar

Rbg Kew 17 Jan 2008

Amazon plant diversity still a mystery

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2007

Orchids may have co-existed with dinosaurs

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2007

U.S. grazing lands at risk due to rising CO2 levels

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2007

Climate change is making poison ivy worse

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2007

Rainforest trees colonized Africa from the Amazon

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2007

Plants in outer space may be black

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2007

Carnivorous plants invade San Francisco

Mongabay.com 13 May 2007

Climate shift in East Africa due to geology, not global climate change

Rhett A. Butler 11 May 2007

Tropical plants may be more adaptable to climate change

Mongabay.com 7 May 2007

Climate change could dramatically change forests in Central America

Rhett A. Butler 2 May 2007

Neon green gecko key to preventing Mauritian plant extinction

Rhett A. Butler 17 Apr 2007

Amazon, Madagascar, Borneo are top plant biodiversity hotspots

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2007

New bamboo species discovered in U.S., first in 200 years

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2007

Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact

Rhett A. Butler 28 Feb 2007

Rainforest tree diversity may be tied to seed dispersal

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2006

New species of orchids discovered in Papua New Guinea

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2006

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