A new study shows the causes of deforestation are changing. Industry has become the primary driver of deforestation, but the shift may offer opportunities for conservation.

Malaysia's Land Development Authority FELDA has announced plans to immediately establish 100,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in the Brazilian Amazon. The establishment of oil palm plantations in the Amazon will be seen by environmentalists as a new t

Mongabay reports that the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is coming under increasingly harsh criticism [ark]. Ecological Internet (EI) and many others believe FSC is imploding as claims of environmental and social benefits of ancient forest logging...

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

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

The Turkana people of northern Kenya, thrown into prominence by the war in neighboring Sudan, may be in danger of being forgotten again. Now, with hostilities in South Sudan diminishing and the U.N. winding down operations for Sudanese refugees, the Turka

Soil ingestion helps chimps protect themselves from malaria, reports a new study published in the journal Naturwissenschaften. Apparently geophagy, as the deliberate behavior is known, "increases the potency of ingested plants with anti-malarial propertie

A few weeks ago, over 10,000 politicians, scientists, NGO representatives, and academics inundated Bali, Indonesia. The goal was to negotiate, lobby, and struggle through the increasingly complex web of international climate change policy. At the end of i

Massive glaciers extended across 50-60 percent of Antarctica some 91.2 million years even as crocodiles roamed the Arctic and surface temperatures of the western tropical Atlantic Ocean climbed to 37 degrees Celsius (98 degrees Fahrenheit), reports a stud

The Atlantic forest of Brazil boasts South America's largest primates, the Southern and Northern Muriqui. The muriqui are unique among all primates, because they are not territorial and do not display aggressive behavior. The IUCN has classified the South