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Throwing our food away: Up to 50% of the food produced worldwide is wasted

Sonia Gandiaga 10 Jan 2013

Wealthy nations’ fossil fuel subsidies dwarf climate financing

Jeremy Hance 5 Dec 2012

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

A new way to rescue Africa’s struggling soils: Planting perennials with crops

Ryder Diaz 20 Nov 2012

Wolves, mole rats, and nyala: the struggle to conserve Ethiopia’s highlands

Jeremy Hance 20 Nov 2012

World Bank: 4 degrees Celsius warming would be miserable

Jeremy Hance 20 Nov 2012

Hurricane Sandy pushes Haiti toward full-blown food crisis

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2012

Over 100,000 farmers squatting in Sumatran park to grow coffee

Jeremy Hance 6 Nov 2012

From ‘fertilizer to fork’: food accounts for a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2012

One in eight people suffer from malnutrition worldwide

Jeremy Hance 16 Oct 2012

Conflict and perseverance: rehabilitating a forgotten park in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 19 Sep 2012

Innovative conservation: bandanas to promote new park in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 16 Jul 2012

Soccer lights up kids’ lives: new technology produces cheap, portable power

Julie Freydlin 16 Jul 2012

Wealthy consumption threatens species in developing countries

Jacob Munger 11 Jul 2012

Poaching in the Serengeti linked to poverty, high legal hunting prices

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2012

Agricultural area larger than Texas has been ‘land-grabbed’

Jeremy Hance 26 Jun 2012

Cowards at Rio?: organizations decry ‘pathetic’ agreement

Jeremy Hance 20 Jun 2012

Rio+20 and economic perils in Europe: opportunity for linkage

Richard Blaustein 19 Jun 2012

Experts: ignoring climate change at Rio+20 makes other goals “meaningless”

Jeremy Hance 18 Jun 2012

Featured video: the Rio speech heard round the world

Jeremy Hance 14 Jun 2012

Scientists: if we don’t act now we’re screwed

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2012

The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and livelihoods in the desert

Linda Leila Diatta 4 Jun 2012

Indigenous group paid $0.65/ha for forest worth $5,000/ha in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2012

Groups urge President Obama to attend Rio+20 Sustainability Summit

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2012

Charting a new environmental course in China

Mark Szotek 21 May 2012

Consumption, population, and declining Earth: wake-up call for Rio+20

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2012

‘The real Hunger Games’: a million children at risk as Sahel region suffers punishing drought

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2012

High-tech hell: new documentary brings Africa’s e-waste slum to life

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2012

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2012

Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view from the ground

Katy Ashe 15 Mar 2012

Scientists say massive palm oil plantation will “cut the heart out” of Cameroon’s rainforest

Jeremy Hance 15 Mar 2012

Without data, fate of great apes unknown

Ingrid Schulze 12 Mar 2012

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