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Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

Trump threatens NASA climate satellite missions as Congress stalls

Giovanni Ortolani 12 Jan 2018

10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jan 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018
A coral reef ecosystem in the Sulug Sea, Borneo. Photo courtesy of Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Reefscape: A global reef survey to build better satellites for coral conservation

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 2 Jan 2018

Combining computing power and people power to identify key deforestation hotspots

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 26 Dec 2017

New carbon maps of Sabah’s forests guide conservation in Borneo

John Cannon 29 Nov 2017

Long-term droughts are throttling growth in Hawaiian forests, finds airborne laser-based study

Alex Fox 27 Nov 2017

Where one predator meets another: tracking sharks and fishing effort

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Nov 2017

An early warning system for locating forest loss

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Nov 2017

More big mammals found in high-carbon forests, says new study

John Cannon 15 Nov 2017

Mapping how to feed 9 billion humans, while avoiding environmental calamity

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2017
The Amazon rainforest along southeastern Peru's Tambopata River, seen from above.

Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Nov 2017

Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 2 Nov 2017

New resource for planning camera trapping, acoustic monitoring, and LiDAR projects

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 Nov 2017

Parks and reserves ‘significant’ force for slowing climate change

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2017

Suite of free, open-source tools to help even non-experts monitor large-scale land use change

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Oct 2017

Deforestation drops 16% in the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Oct 2017

Amazonian manatee migration at risk from disruption by proposed dams

Claire Salisbury 19 Oct 2017

Trending tree cover loss spikes again in Queensland

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2017

At 2017 minimum, scientists ask: Is Arctic entering the Thin Ice Age?

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2017

Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

Ecologist wins Heinz environment prize for airborne mapping that informs policy

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2017

Deforestation from gold mining in Peru continues, despite gov’t crackdowns

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Five instances in which Peru won the battle against deforestation

Milton López Tarabochia 2 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses

Eduardo Pegurier 27 Jul 2017

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

John Cannon 24 Jul 2017

Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco

John Cannon 19 Jul 2017

Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions

Claire Salisbury 6 Jul 2017

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