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Consumption habits cause rich countries to outsource emissions

Why seed dispersers matter, an interview with Pierre-Michel Forget, chair of the FSD International Symposium

UN mulls global environment organization

How that cork in your wine bottle helps forests and biodiversity, an interview with Patrick Spencer

With increased protection, Gulf of California marine life could recover

How free trade has devastated Africa’s farmers and poor

Chinese farming practices are acidifying soils

Certified palm oil sales accelerate

EU: rainforests can be converted to palm oil plantations for biofuel production

Could special bonds fund the green revolution and stabilize the climate?

China leaves US (and Europe) in the dust on renewable energy

Will it be possible to feed nine billion people sustainably?

Iceland leads world on environmental issues, but China, US, and Canada plummet

Target stops sales of farm-raised salmon, citing environmental concerns

New report: world must change model of economic growth to avert environmental disaster

Sixty corporations volunteer to measure full lifecycle emissions of products

Dams a ‘monument of corruption’: Baru Bian, new leader of Sarawak’s People’s Justice Party

Consumers should help pay the bill for ‘greener’ palm oil

Could space technology save our planet?

Rainforest conservation: a year in review

Agreement reached in Copenhagen, although ‘not sufficient to combat the threat of climate change’

New tropical wood substitute could save rainforests worldwide

Is the US sinking climate change talks at Copenhagen?

Pope Benedict: environmental crisis requires review of world’s economic model

REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions

Obama administration about to declare carbon dioxide a danger to the public, allowing regulation

Americans throw away enough food every year to feed 200 million adults

Land of plenty: 50 percent rise in the amount of food wasted in America worsens global warming, consumes freshwater

Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

Using fish as livestock feed threatens global fisheries

Oceans’ ability to sequester carbon diminishing

Coastal habitats may sequester 50 times more carbon than tropical forests by area

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