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Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests

Aurora Solá, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2021

With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics

Justin Catanoso 20 Apr 2021

European public roundly rejects Brazil trade deal unless Amazon protected

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2021

More meat and playtime can calm your killer kitty

Liz Kimbrough 15 Feb 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

Nearly one-third of all oak species threatened with extinction, report says

Liz Kimbrough 12 Feb 2021

Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy?

Justin Catanoso 4 Feb 2021
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How to turn climate ambitions into reality: Q&A with Nigel Topping

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2021
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, a remote archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Photo by Subiet via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong

Liz Kimbrough 8 Dec 2020
Victoria amazonica. © Sir Ghillean Prance

Amazon botanist Sir Ghillean Prance: ‘The environmental crisis is a moral one’

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2020

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Justin Catanoso 31 Aug 2020
Microsoft Zoom Earth photo of Western Scotland.

Book Review: Cottongrass Summer – the book every eco-anxious conservationist should read

Erik Meijaard 17 Aug 2020

Sharks contaminated with plastic are ‘cause for concern’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Aug 2020

Prized as pets, are ball pythons being traded out of wild existence?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 May 2020

Insects decline on land, fare better in water, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 8 May 2020
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

UK military beef supplier buys from sanctioned Brazilian farmers, investigation shows

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2020

Flamingos form lasting friendships, a new study finds

Liz Kimbrough 28 Apr 2020

As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, NGOs urge the same for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 17 Apr 2020

Study finds huge potential for urban gardens to feed city dwellers

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2020

Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2020

Plastic trash kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands each year

Grace Dungey 28 Feb 2020

Iridescence helps these ‘living jewels’ hide in plain sight

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jan 2020

Tool use in puffins may point to ‘underestimated’ intelligence in seabirds

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2020

COP25: Wood pellet CEO claims biomass carbon neutrality, despite science

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2019

UK supermarkets criticized over pesticide use, lack of transparency

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2019

British armed forces supplied by Brazilian meat firm linked to Amazon deforestation, corruption: Report

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2019

Massive protected area around ‘Atlantic Galapagos’ one step closer to becoming reality

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2019

UN and policymakers, wake up! Burning trees for energy is not carbon neutral (commentary)

Mary Booth 16 Sep 2019

Thousands of endangered snails raised in captivity returned to natural habitat in Bermuda

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2019

Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 19 Jun 2019

Climate change spurs deadly virus in frogs in the U.K.

Mongabay.com 13 May 2019

Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers

Lakshmi Supriya 12 Apr 2019

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