Brazil has been accused of turning its back on its duty to protect the Amazon after fears over the fate of the rainforest were fuelled by the resignation of its award-winning Environment Minister, Marina Silva, who felt she was losing the battle.

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Saving an island: analysis of Woodlark Island's victory over palm-oil development. How Woodlark Island's plight went from local to global. In mid-January, Mongabay learned that the government of Papua New Guinea had changed its mind: it would no longer

In this age of expanding globalization, the Vatican is telling followers that sin is not just an individual act but can also be a transgression against the larger community. The Vatican's seemed to be reminding the world that sin has a social dimension.

After reporting a truck loaded with mahogany illegally logged from the Amazon rainforest, Don Julio Garcia Agapito, a Peruvian authority who worked to protect forests, was gunned down by Amancion Jacinto Maque, an illegal timber operator, on February 26th

It represents half of the world's rainforest and is home to one-third of Earth's species, yet the Amazon has one of the highest rates of deforestation. Jeff Tollefson looks at efforts to curb the problem

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The vast majority of scientists and other specialists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have withdrawn from a key labor-management partnership, citing rising distrust of the agency's chief Stephen Johnson...trade unions representing the wo

NASA is proposing a new Commercial Launch Facility on 200 acres of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge which could have significant environmental and visitor impacts. Merritt Island NWR is an overlay of the Kennedy Space Center and the Refuge manages

The sale went forward over the protest of conservation and Native Alaska groups plus objections by U.S. congressional members outside the state, who said the Minerals Management Service should have held up the sale until a decision is made on polar bears.