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Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018

Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2018

Scientists reveal yet another reason fig trees are titans of biodiversity

Mike Shanahan 6 Jul 2018

Nearly four decades of cycling race video reveals climate change’s effects

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Delhi residents protest against axing of the city’s green cover

Mayank Aggarwal 4 Jul 2018

City forests store rainforest-levels of carbon, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Jun 2018

After logging, activists hope to extend protections for Bialowieza Forest

Jeremy Hance 28 Jun 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar: Yet another anti-trafficking activist convicted

Edward Carver 19 Jun 2018

Climate change could be killing Africa’s giant baobabs

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2018

As biomass energy gains traction, southern US forests feel the burn

Rachel Fritts 11 Jun 2018

Study reveals China’s new forests aren’t really forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Jun 2018
A view up at the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Taller, older trees fare better during Amazon droughts, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Jun 2018
Banner image: A blue coua (Coua caerulea) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar court upholds sentence for environmental activist

Edward Carver 31 May 2018

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2018

‘We are going to self-destruct’: Development plans threaten Malaysian island

Kate Mayberry 30 Apr 2018

‘Shocking and worrying’: Selective logging has big, lasting impact on fish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2018

US urban areas are losing 36 million trees every year, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2018

Island logging must go beyond current ‘best practices’ to avoid erosion: New study

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Scientists discover carbon ‘fingerprint’ in tree rings

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Apr 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

‘A real surprise’: Study reveals low phosphorus doesn’t hinder rainforest growth

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Mar 2018

Carbon credit prices too low to protect forests from rubber, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Mar 2018

Europe’s beetle species plummet as trees disappear

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Mar 2018

Tropical forest fragmentation nearing ‘critical point,’ study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Feb 2018

Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Feb 2018

The ozone layer is still getting thinner, new study finds

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2018

Cattle invade Colombian national park

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Feb 2018

Scientists find ‘surprising’ connections between tropical forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Feb 2018

Study reveals forests have yet another climate-protection superpower

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Jan 2018

Ancient human sites may have distorted our understanding of the Amazon’s natural ecology

Kimber Price 16 Jan 2018

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2017

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2017

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