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Scientists to Rio+20: save biodiversity to save ourselves

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2012

Indigenous rights rising in tropical forests, but big gaps remain

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2012

Groups urge President Obama to attend Rio+20 Sustainability Summit

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2012

Consumption, population, and declining Earth: wake-up call for Rio+20

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2012

Featured video: the oceans and Rio+20

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2012

‘The real Hunger Games’: a million children at risk as Sahel region suffers punishing drought

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2012

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2012

How best to monitor biodiversity in REDD+ projects?

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2012

United Nations meets clean water goal

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

Six nations, including U.S., set up climate initiative to target short-term greenhouse gases

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2012

Girl Scouts activists win forest heroes award for challenging organization on sustainability

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2012

Another food crisis looming in Africa: nearly 5 million South Sudanese lacking food

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2012

Global food prices set record in 2011

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2012

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011

Jeremy Hance 22 Dec 2011

Droughts could push parts of Africa back into famine

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

REDD advances—slowly—in Durban

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Dec 2011

Harsh words for Canada after it abandons Kyoto Protocol

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2011

Mixed reactions to the Durban agreement

Analysis Jeremy Hance 12 Dec 2011

Current emission pledges will raise temperature 3.5 degrees Celsius

Jeremy Hance 6 Dec 2011

Global carbon emissions rise 49 percent since 1990

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2011

Africa, China call out Canada for climate betrayal

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2011

Top 20 banks that finance big coal

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2011

Another record breaker: 2011 warmest La Niña year ever

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2011

Carbon credit market for HFC-23 racked by fraud

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2011

For poor, climate change “a matter of life and death”

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2011

Deforestation could be stopped by 2020

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2011

UN calls for secure contraceptives as wildlife group hands out Endangered Species condoms

Jeremy Hance 6 Oct 2011

Tribal leader to the UN: Indigenous peoples of the Amazon are in danger

Almir Surui Narayamoga Of The Surui Tribe 22 Sep 2011

UN: private sector engagement needed to save forests

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2011

Oil horror in Nigeria: 30 years, one billion dollars to clean-up

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2011

Rainforests in Sumatra, Honduras added to UN’s danger list

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2011

New record in global carbon emissions ‘another wake-up call’

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2011

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