It is clear that there will be no restrictions on oil drilling in Uganda. Four of the ten National Parks and 8 of the 12 Wildlife Refuges are slated for oil exploration and drilling in the next few years.

What do 21% of mammals, 30% of amphibians, 12% of birds, and 28% of reptiles, 37% of freshwater fishes, 70% of plants, 35% of invertebrates have in common?

The campaign received major support last week when Norway announced a $30 million commitment on Monday for the small South American nation to implement an "avoided deforestation" plan. If the program demonstrates success, Guyana will receive an additional

In many ways plastics are simply synthetic compounds that mimic and try to improve upon substances we find widespread in nature--polymers such as you might find in wood, leaves, seeds and fur.

Imagine staring into the sky and seeing a tiny yellow dot, gradually getting closer. That dot doubles in size every second, until it slowly darkens the sky.

The Dutch government is playing an active role to have GMO crops accepted and introduced to Europe. Part of this is the financial and political support for the Round Table on Resposible Soy (RTRS)

Scientists have unravelled the mechanism by which the fungal disease chytridiomycosis kills its victims.

How many miles does your food travel before it hits your dinner plate? Not so long ago, the majority of our food came from our local environment or at least from within our own countries.

Coral reef species are facing an escalating danger of extinction as a result of rising temperatures. Up to one-third of the small animals could be wiped out in the coming years due to warmer ocean waters, increasing acidity in the sea, and the compounding

Conservation groups based in Alaska have accused the Obama administration of repeating the mistakes of George Bush after it gave the conditional go-ahead for Shell to begin drilling offshore