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In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

Grasshoppers: They come, they eat, they … pollinate?

Ashley Stumvoll 13 Feb 2019

Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf

Margaux Maxwell 23 Jan 2019

The case for forests’ prominent role in holding off climate change

John Cannon 16 Jan 2019

Termites help to protect tropical forests during drought, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2019

Machine learning tool helps prioritize plants for conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Jan 2019

Top 10 happy environmental stories of 2018

Basten Gokkon 31 Dec 2018

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018
Wild orchids still attached to tree branches, for sale in a street market in China. Photo courtesy Amy Hinsley.

Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade

Stephanie Parker 21 Dec 2018

Top U.S. flooring retailer linked to Brazilian firm snagged in timber bust

John Cannon 4 Dec 2018

Forestry reforms could fall short without PM’s backing in Ukraine

John Cannon 28 Nov 2018

Extinction by omission: Peru’s disappearing ancient shihuahuaco trees

Vanessa Romo 28 Nov 2018

More than one-third of critically endangered plants cannot be conserved in seed banks

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2018

The last trees of the Amazon

Nelly Luna Amancio 12 Nov 2018

Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2018
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Edward Carver 24 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Millennial trees and Pacific coral larvae

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

Scientists urge greater protection of Brazil’s secondary forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Oct 2018

New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2018
Flowering trees in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Diversity is key to forests withstanding drought, research finds

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2018

Runners’ woes at Asian Games highlight Jakarta’s air pollution problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2018

More remote islands might be more susceptible to invasive species: study

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2018

From sink to source: Droughts are changing the Amazon rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Aug 2018

New orchid species discovered in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2018

Saving rare orchids that are ‘confusingly difficult’ to grow in labs: Q&A with orchid expert Marc Freestone

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2018

The superb mimicry skills of an Australian songbird

Mike Gaworecki 21 Aug 2018

In protecting songbirds, Indonesia ruffles owners & breeders’ feathers

Basten Gokkon 13 Aug 2018

Ecology monks in Thailand seek to end environmental suffering

Kiley Price 13 Aug 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Aug 2018

Soggier forest soils thwart the uptake of climate-warming methane

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2018

Tropical forest canopies get hotter than expected, putting wildlife at risk

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Aug 2018

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