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Fracas over Costa Rican shark-fin exports leads American Airlines to stop shipping fins

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 24 Apr 2015

Can shade-grown cocoa help conserve sloths?

Darcy Widmayer 22 Apr 2015

Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2015

Innovative community fisheries initiative wins top social entrepreneurship prize

Mongabay.com 13 Apr 2015

Anti-mining activist shot dead in Guatemala

Jeremy Hance 13 Apr 2015

Discovery of ‘Lost City’ spurs conservation pledge

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2015

Meet Biomuseo: the world’s first biodiversity museum

Alexander Montoro 12 Mar 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Pollution from fossil fuels decreased rainfall in Central America

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2015

With local help, hawksbill sea turtles make a comeback in Nicaragua

Shayna Wilson 28 Jan 2015

Suspects acquitted in shocking murder of sea turtle conservationist

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2015

Scientists rediscover Critically Endangered streamside frog in Costa Rica

Victor Montoro 26 Dec 2014

Conservation conflicting with local ways of life in Mexican reserve

Anna Ikarashi 23 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

Ocelots live in super densities on Barro Colorado Island

Jeremy Hance 18 Dec 2014

New poison dart frog needs immediate conservation plan

Brittany Stewart 15 Dec 2014

New film highlights local resistance to Nicaragua’s canal

Jeremy Hance 11 Dec 2014

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2014

Is the Gran Canal really a ‘big Christmas present’ for Nicaraguans?

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Surprising reasons to be optimistic about saving forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2014

Leaf bacteria are important to tree health, may help forests adapt to climate change

Anna Ikarashi 13 Nov 2014

Indigenous uprising earned tribe territories, but greatest challenges lie ahead

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 6 Nov 2014

Between the Forest and the Sea: The Yarsuisuit Collective – Part II

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 31 Oct 2014

Between the forest and the sea: life and climate change in Guna Yala – Part I

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 27 Oct 2014

Scientific association calls on Nicaragua to scrap its Gran Canal

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2014

Balu Wala, or the Kuna ‘good life’: how one indigenous tribe is passing on its traditions (photos)

Ruxandra Guidi 3 Oct 2014

What makes the jaguar the ultimate survivor? New books highlights mega-predator’s remarkable past and precarious future

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2014

Reintroduction program ups Mexico’s scarlet macaw population by 34 percent in one year

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Sep 2014

Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Fragmented forests hurt some bat species, may benefit others

Anna Ikarashi 23 Sep 2014

REDD+ versus indigenous people? Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their carbon-rich forests

Ruxandra Guidi - Mongabay.org Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 4 Sep 2014

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2014

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