The greatest emerging threat to Amazon rainforests and communities is industrial soy plantations. Huge mechanized, soy monocultures destroy tropical ecosystems, accelerate climate change and cause human rights abuses primarily to produce agrofuel and

Sustaining the supply of natural materials isn't a new idea in the musical instrument industry, which depends on old-growth wood to achieve the best tonal quality. "The paradox is that musicians as a group tend to be pretty progressive and ecologically

Tell the Bush administration to halt the oil and gas project in the Baca National Wildlife Refuge until a thorough study of its potentially devastating environmental impacts is carried out.

Though many blame the transfer of land and grains to biofuel production, its impact has been outweighed by the demand from a new middle class in China and India for meat and other foods previously viewed as luxuries.

For more than seven months, the nation's top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially

their absence is signaling a silent alarm bell about the state of our ecosystem. According to a report by the National Audubon Society, the numbers of some species of birds have plummeted by 60 percent to 80 percent. The video above explains some o

The Fish & Wildlife Service has just made it easier to kill wolves in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Rockies region -- even while they remain protected under the Endangered Species Act. Federal officials changed the so-called "10j" rule today, ...

The major tissue manufacturers are not offering enough recycled toilet paper, towels and napkins to European consumers and must be more responsible when sourcing their wood, according to a new WWF report

The Yazoo Pumps project is a boondoggle of the highest degree. If built, the pumps would cost American taxpayers over $211 million dollars and would drain over 200,000 acres of wetlands. ..harm two wildlife refuges and part of a national forest

We're in a situation where we cohabit the earth with 30,000 nuclear weapons. Of these, 4400 to 5000 are on alert and can be launched in 15 - 30 minutes