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Two natterjack toads (Epidalea calamita) in mating position. Image courtesy of Christoph Bühler.

If you build it, the amphibians will come: Swiss researchers show new ponds boost species at risk

Elissa Welle 9 Dec 2022
A mobile chipper making short shrift of freshly felled centenary beech trunks to produce wood chips that are burned “green,” with up to 50% moisture, in a local district heating system in February 2022.

Switzerland set to burn more trees to reach its climate and energy goals (commentary)

Lucie Wuethrich 6 Sep 2022
A bracelet with figurines carved from highly prized red coral.

New DNA test aims to help bust illegal trade in precious red coral

Kristy Hamilton 21 Jul 2022
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 21 Jan 2022

Debt deal with deforester BrasilAgro puts UBS’s green commitment in question

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 6 Aug 2021

The HFC challenge: Can the Montreal Protocol continue its winning streak?

Jane Palmer 5 May 2021

CITES to move wildlife trade summit from Colombo to Geneva this August

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 13 Jun 2019

A snapshot of camera traps reveals user frustrations and hopes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Feb 2019
Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra), a species that lives in northeastern Madagascar, where rosewood logging has been severe. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects Madagascar’s bid to sell rosewood and ebony stockpiles

Edward Carver 12 Dec 2017

Do the Locomotion: Bio-inspired technology creates amphibious robots that mimic salamander movement

Lalini Pedris 30 Mar 2017

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

Brazilian mining company connected to Belo Monte dam voted worst corporation

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2012

Top forest policies recognized

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2011

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