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A new study attempts to place a value of goods and services afforded by the ocean, estimating that ...

A city-sized resort complex in Laos is facilitating large-scale wildlife trafficking for Chinese tourists, exacerbating commercial poaching in ...

Researchers are planning to use drones equipped with vegetation-penetrating lasers to scan the Amazon rainforest for signs of ...

The government of Madagascar has established the Indian Ocean island's first shark sanctuary in an area famous for ...

IOI Corporation officially committed to what its subsidiary, palm oil trader IOI Loders Croklaan, pledged last November: it ...

For the first time, Indonesia has sentenced an illegal manta ray trafficker to jail time and a fine, ...

Myanmar (commonly called Burma) is home to at least 1,114 bird species after researchers identified 20 previously undocumented ...

155 Chinese citizens have been arrested in Myanmar, commonly known as Burma, for illegal logging, reports Agence France-Presse.

Seven conservation societies have joined a campaign to push the Obama administration to end old-growth forest logging in ...

Agriculture has surpassed deforestation and land use change as a driver of greenhouse gas emissions, argues a paper ...

Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem says his government may stop granting new logging concessions, reports Malaysian state media.

Indigenous leaders are calling for the release of six tribesmen implicated in a raid on an oilfield in ...

Biologists describe upwards of 15,000 previously undocumented species every year. Some of these species are complete surprises, occasionally ...

Tomorrow the European Union will begin enforcing legislation that mandates labeling of specific vegetable oils on food products. ...

Forest-dependent peoples face grave threats from deforestation and other depredations, warns a new report that urges greater recognition ...

Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon increased significantly last year, says a top official.

Home products giant IKEA has made a time-bound commitment for eliminating palm oil linked to deforestation and human ...

A new initiative ranks the world's 25 largest publicly listed palm oil companies in terms of transparency around ...

Researchers have described a previously undocumented species of gecko in Madagascar. The species, named Paroedura hordiesi, lives among ...

Authorities in Belgium seized two containers of Brazilian timber in Antwerp following a demonstration by Greenpeace, which alleged ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has signed an agreement with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) ...

On Wednesday in Sydney, Australia, at the opening of the once-a-decade IUCN World Parks Congress, the Central African ...

Indonesia's newly elected president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has merged the country's ministries of forestry and environment into a ...

With scientists rapidly adopting and using a range of remote sensing tools for monitoring environmental change, tracking wildlife ...

Colombia has for the first time released an annual report on deforestation, revealing that forest loss during 2013 ...

On the heels of a report showing that the world is far behind on targets to halve habitat ...

To help fight illegal poaching and trafficking, INTERPOL, the world's largest international police organization, has launched an environmental ...