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Over 700 species added to the threatened categories on the IUCN Red List (photos)

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2013

Warming world hits fig wasps and figs

Adam Andrus 19 Jun 2013

Difference within common species may predict the presence of rare animals

Jenny R. Isaacs 5 Jun 2013

Loss of big fruit-eating birds impacting trees in endangered rainforests

Mongabay.com 31 May 2013

Plants re-grow after five centuries under the ice

Tanya Dimitrova 27 May 2013

Climate change to halve habitat for over 10,000 common species

Jeremy Hance 13 May 2013

The Hawaiian silversword: another warning on climate change

Zach Fitzner 6 May 2013

A new tool against illegal logging: tree DNA technology goes mainstream

Tanya Dimitrova 22 Apr 2013

Future generations to pay for our mistakes: biodiversity loss doesn’t appear for decades

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2013

Greener neighborhoods have less violent crime

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

An insidious threat to tropical forests: over-hunting endangers tree species in Asia and Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

By 2050 much of the Arctic could be green

Jeremy Hance 1 Apr 2013

Invasive plants hurt locals in Mauritius

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

Logging studies plagued by sampling problems

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

Dozens of tropical trees awarded new protections at CITES

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2013

Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaughtered elephants taking rainforest trees with them

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

New illegal logging ban in EU could sever all ties with companies working in DRC

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2013

Selective logging changes character of tropical forest

Jeremy Hance 28 Feb 2013

Rate of tree die-off in Amazon higher than conventionally believed

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Feb 2013

Brazil to inventory the Amazon

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2013

Presence of trees may mitigate cardiovascular and respiratory disease

Jeremy Hance 17 Jan 2013

Biofuel boom could lead to life-threatening ozone pollution

Jeremy Hance 9 Jan 2013

Botanists discover cave-dwelling plant

Alex Hatheway 7 Jan 2013

Mountain pine beetle threatening high-altitude, endangered trees

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2013

Some Amazon trees more than 8 million years old

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2012

Global decline of big trees in old-growth forests worrying, argue scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2012

Featured video: turning yards and neighborhoods into wildlife habitat

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2012

Foreign loggers and corrupt officials flouting logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jeremy Hance 8 Nov 2012

Happy Halloween: nine new species of tree-climbing tarantula discovered

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2012

Wax palm can be sustainably harvested

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Extremely rare plant region left unprotected in the Yucatan Peninsula

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Bird diversity at risk if ‘agroforests’ replaced with farmland

Caillie Mutterback 13 Sep 2012

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