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Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

Sustainable Palm Oil Manifesto group’s High Carbon Stock forests study would continue business as usual, environmentalists say

Mike Gaworecki 16 Oct 2015

Failure to engage local communities is costing investors big money, according to a new analysis

Mike Gaworecki 9 Oct 2015

Could canned fish soup stop government-community conflict in Sumatra?

Taufik Wijaya 9 Oct 2015

Opponents of Malaysian dam project cautiously optimistic about moratorium

Mike Gaworecki 23 Sep 2015

Agroforestry in spotlight ahead of Jokowi’s trip to New York

Ethan Harfenist 19 Sep 2015

India poised to drive a shift towards sustainable palm oil

Sarah Hucal 25 Aug 2015

Employing shame for environmental change

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2015

Norway sovereign fund drops coal, tar sands, gold-mining companies

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Accounting for natural capital on financial exchanges

Sarah Friedman 26 Jan 2015

Initiative to restore 50M acres of degraded Latin American ecosystems by 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2014

Central Kalimantan to set up palm oil monitoring system to in bid cut deforestation 80%

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Oct 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? The ‘double-edged sword’ of democracy

Dr Liz Kimbrough 3 Jul 2014

Zero-deforestation commitments pose acute challenges for commercial giants in the palm oil industry

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 22 May 2014

The beef with beef: how 12 strategies could drastically cut agricultural emissions

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2014

Climate change solution? UN touts ambitious (but cheap) investment in renewable energy

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2014

Australia proposes banning environmental boycotts

Jeremy Hance 7 Apr 2014

How locals and conservationists saved the elephants of Mali amidst conflict and poverty

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2014

Ecotourism pays: study finds lower poverty where nature-based tourism is prevalent

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2014

Assassination 25 years ago catalyzed movement to protect the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2013

Africa to build world’s largest dam, but who will benefit?

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Dec 2013

Scientists: well-managed forest restoration benefits both biodiversity and people

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 16 Dec 2013

Average American consumes 50,000 pounds of raw materials annually for the stuff they buy

Tanya Dimitrova 10 Dec 2013

Lao ecotourism project wins responsible travel award for innovation

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2013

Solving ‘wicked problems’: ten principles for improved environmental management

Jaboury Ghazoul 23 Jun 2013

Building a new generation of local conservationists: how improving education in Uganda may save one of the world’s great forests

Jeremy Hance 20 Jun 2013

Millennium Development Goals falling short on environmental ambitions

Fred Boltz Of Conservation International 30 May 2013

Water crisis widening: 4.5 billion people live near ‘impaired water sources’

Fiona Harvey 28 May 2013

Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2013

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2013

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