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Mother of God: meet the 26 year old Indiana Jones of the Amazon, Paul Rosolie


Penis snake' discovered in Brazil is actually a rare species of amphibian


Malaysia has the world's highest deforestation rate, reveals Google forest map


New dolphin discovered in the Amazon surprises scientists


Infamous pet and zoo supplier lost 3,500 animals a week (photos)


Singapore intercepts massive illegal shipment of Madagascar rosewood


Lady Gaga gets bitten by venomous primate, sparking outrage over loris trafficking


Revolutionary Google-backed system unlocks power of 'big data' to save forests


Goodbye to the Baiji


Edited Reality: What I Learned from Filming Eaten Alive


Visiting the rainforest - a practical guide


Discarded cell phones to help fight rainforest poachers, loggers in real-time


Python explodes after swallowing 6-foot alligator in Florida Everglades


Secrets of the Amazon: giant anacondas and floating forests, an interview with Paul Rosolie


The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood': authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders


Biggest new animal discoveries of 2013 (photos)


Rainforest news review for 2013


Scientists rebut NYTimes op-ed 'To Save the Planet, Don't Plant Trees'


In the shadows of Machu Picchu, scientists find 'extinct' cat-sized mammal


The quiet zoo revolution


Why conservationists need a little hope: saving themselves from becoming the most depressing scientists on the planet


Surprising reasons to be optimistic about saving forests


35 pictures of the sharkfin trade that will shock and dismay you


Investigation finds Chinese factory slaughters 600 whale sharks a year


287 amphibian and reptile species in Peruvian park sets world record (photos)


Indonesian sugar company poised to destroy half of island paradise's forests


Will zero deforestation commitments save Indonesia's forests?


Rhino with bullet in its brain and hacked off horn wanders for days before being put down


In precedent-setting case, palm oil company fined $30M for destroying orangutan forest


How did Ebola Zaire Get to Guinea?


The biggest new species discoveries in 2014 (photos)


After GAR expands policy, over 50% of world's palm oil bound by zero deforestation commitments


Leonardo DiCaprio donates $1M toward ending elephant poaching crisis


Indonesian activist wins Goldman Prize for fighting palm oil, deforestation


APP, environmentalists talk future of Indonesia's forests


Despite moratorium, Indonesia now has world's highest deforestation rate


Short-eared dog? Uncovering the secrets of one of the Amazon's most mysterious mammals


Through careful management, indigenous people have shaped Asian rainforests for 11,000 years


Scientists uncover six potentially new species in Peru, including bizarre aquatic mammal (photos)


Photos: Weird aquatic lizard discovered in mountain streams of Peru


Malaysian palm oil company stock drops after environmental complaint


Stuff of fairy tales: stepping into Europe's last old-growth forest


20 orangutan pictures for World Orangutan Day


In cutting deforestation, Brazil leads world in reducing emissions


30% of Borneo's rainforests destroyed since 1973


PHOTOS: Glowing fish - study finds widespread biofluorescence among fish


APP commits to conserve, restore 1M ha of Indonesian forest; WWF pledges support


Clash with palm oil company leaves one indigenous community member dead in Sumatra


Pity the pangolin: little-known mammal most common victim of the wildlife trade


Helping the Amazon's 'Jaguar People' protect their culture and traditional wisdom


The swan song of India's dancing bears


Scientists catalog the world's 10,000th reptile


New large horned viper discovered, but biologists keep location quiet


Powered by Google, high resolution forest map reveals massive deforestation worldwide


Rainforest Alliance to independently audit APP's zero deforestation commitment


Little elephant is the first scientific record of dwarfism in the wild


World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005


When cute turns deadly - the story of a wildlife biologist who was bit by a venomous slow loris, and lived to tell the tale


One quarter of sharks and rays threatened with extinction


Pictures: the top new animal discoveries of 2014


Photos of alleged blood-sucking chupacabra found in Texas


Indonesian law bars palm oil companies from protecting forests


Culling elephants leaves an impact on their social structure decades later


Scientists uncover new crocodile in Africa


Obama: palm oil destroying Malaysia's rainforests


Camera trap captures first ever video of rarely-seen bird in the Amazon...and much more


Scientists discover new whale species


Norwegian insurance giant blacklists palm oil companies


Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013


Forests in Indonesia's concession areas being rapidly destroyed


Palm oil giants announce deforestation moratorium -- effective immediately


Wilmar refutes Sarawak govt's claims on palm oil ban


NASA picture reveals shocking impact of California's drought


After 89-year absence a wolf returns to Iowa...and is shot dead


Ecologists are underestimating the impacts of rainforest logging


What does Nature give us? A special Earth Day article


Design of new Mercedes-Benz bionic car inspired by fish body shape


NASA data: 1997 all over again for Indonesia?


PepsiCo announces zero deforestation commitment for palm oil


Indonesia's forests increasingly empty of wildlife


Chinese poachers caught with 555 marine turtles, most dead (PHOTOS)


Saudi Prince kills two percent of global population of endangered bird


Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir


New forest map for Sarawak reveals large-scale deforestation, encroachment on indigenous territories


Amazing discovery in Antarctica: sea anemones found living upside down under ice (photos)


Grenades, helicopters, and scooping out brains: poachers decimate elephant population in park


Scientists name new endangered species after the company that will decide its fate


Weird aquatic lizard discovered in mountain streams of Peru


Monkeys reset camera trap, capture first-ever images of flat-headed cats in park


Stunning high-resolution map reveals secrets of Peru's forests


Community's push to clear forest for plantation challenges efforts to conserve in Indonesia


Protecting rainforests could sequester equivalent of a third of global emissions annually


Photos: mass turtle hatching produces over 200,000 babies


Google forest data now available for download


APP pledges to restore forests, if given the opportunity


NASA detects surge in deforestation in Malaysia, Bolivia during first quarter of 2014


Cargill commits to zero deforestation, but environmentalists have questions


Is Brazil's epic drought a taste of the future?


Mining company attacks scuba diving tourists in Indonesia


Photos: bizarre new mammal discovered in Vietnam


Next big idea in forest conservation? Integrating forest conservation, use, and restoration


Chinese officials seize nearly a thousand dead pangolins


Fracking: the good, the bad and the ugly


Population growth and associated food demand to take heavy toll on rainforests


Saving rainforests by buying them


In Girl Scouts vs. Kellogg's over palm oil, rainforests and orangutans win


Future threats to the Amazon rainforest


Can palm oil move past its bad reputation?


The Harry Potter wasp: public votes to name new species after soul-sucking ghouls


646-pound catfish believed to be world's largest fish


Remarkable new monkey discovered in remote Congo rainforest


Procter & Gamble's palm oil suppliers linked to deforestation (photos)


Hope in the Heart of Darkness: huge population of chimpanzees discovered in the DRC


When the orangutan and the slow loris met - and no one was eaten


Over 75 percent of large predators declining


Tree islands more effective way to replant the world's forests


Snow leopards and other mammals caught on camera trap in Uzbekistan (photos)


Despite campaign, Girl Scout cookies still aren't deforestation free, say scout activists


Incredible encounter: whales devour European eels in the darkness of the ocean depths


The lemur end-game: scientists propose ambitious plan to save the world's most imperiled mammal family


Scientists blast Australian government's moves to dismantle environmental protections


Malaysian palm oil giant loses PNG case, plantations declared illegal


Camera traps capture 'fantastically bizarre' animal behavior in South African park


Endangered tiger killed in Sumatra


On edge of extinction, could drones and technology save the Little Dodo?


Cargill commits to zero deforestation across entire global supply chain: all commodities


Jane Goodall: 5 reasons to have hope for the planet


Did the world's only venomous primate evolve to mimic the cobra?


Next big idea in forest conservation? Connecting forest fragments


U.S. proposes to list wolverine under Endangered Species Act


Despite falling palm oil price, premium for 'sustainable' product rises


Unrelenting population growth driving global warming, mass extinction


Lions face extinction in West Africa: less than 250 survive


Using Google Earth to protect uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rainforest


Giant ibis, little dodo, and the kakapo: meet the 100 weirdest and most endangered birds


Indonesia rejects, delays 1.3m ha of concessions due to moratorium


Is 20 millions tons enough? Scientists recommend plastic crackdown as oceans choke


Despite green pledge, Wilmar partner continues to destroy forest for palm oil


Dubai's artificial islands have high environmental cost


Land conflicts complicate effort to spare forests from palm oil in Borneo


Long lost mammal photographed on camera trap in Vietnam


Bizarre lizard newest victim of reptile pet trade


Isolated indigenous people and tourists collide in Peru park


Snickers, Twix to be deforestation-free


Shoot to conserve: Corey Knowlton's rhino hunt escalates the debate over trophy hunting and environmentalism


Next big idea in conservation? Recognizing we are our own obstacles


Scientists uncover new marine mammal genus, represented by single endangered species


Amphibian pandemic may have hit Madagascar, hundreds of species at risk of infection


What's an environmental journalist to do with so much good news?


Cambodian communities best placed to prevent illegal logging


Requiem or recovery?: the Sumatran rhino 200 years after its description


China to destroy ivory stockpile


Next big idea in forest conservation? Using drones to catch poachers, monitor forests


The dark side of new species discovery


Featured video: camera traps catch jaguars, anteaters, and a sloth eating clay in the Amazon rainforest


NASA photo reveals ongoing haze problem in Sumatra


Ecotourism pays: study finds lower poverty where nature-based tourism is prevalent


Trophy hunters auction off life of Critically Endangered black rhino


Feral creches: parenting in wild India


Bears, cats, and mystery mammals: camera traps in 'paper park' prove its worth protecting


Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade agreement to sacrifice wildlife, environment


Johnson & Johnson commits to zero deforestation for palm oil


558 dead: rhino poaching in South Africa on track to exceed last year's record


The next best thing: how well do secondary forests preserve biodiversity?


Palm oil's climate impact worse than thought due to methane emissions


New tapir? Scientists dispute biological discovery of the century


U.S. palm oil company fined $4.6m in discrimination suit


New Caledonia officially creates world's largest protected area (photos)


Key highland habitat for rare condor protected in Ecuador


Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve


Grocery giant commits to zero-deforestation policy for palm oil sourcing


Australia proposes removing old-growth forests from World Heritage Site


Children 'clean' oil spill with kitchen utensils in the Sundarbans


It's not just extinction: meet defaunation


Indonesian logger: cleared peat forest doesn't have high conservation value


No longer 'deaf as a stump': researchers find turtles chirp, click, meow, cluck


A path to becoming a conservation scientist


Underestimating global warming: gaps in Arctic temperature data lead scientists and public astray


Bromeliads may actually protect fruit trees from pest damage


Sloths, moths and algae: a surprising partnership sheds light on a mystery


Microsoft buys Madagascar carbon credits


Brazilian soy industry extends deforestation moratorium


Company accused of logging endangered rainforest trees in breach of timber legality certificate


Islamic clerics issue 'fatwa' against poaching, declare the illegal wildlife trade 'haram'


Olinguito, tinkerbell, and a dragon: meet the top 10 new species of 2013


Conservationists use social media to take on Peru's booming illegal wildlife trade


Illegal logging surges in Mozambique


Indonesia's haze from forest fires kills 110,000 people per year


Oil company breaks agreement, builds big roads in Yasuni rainforest


Good news: Refuge for last blue-throated macaws doubles in size in Bolivia


Indonesia pledges to protect manta rays


Over 2,500 wolves killed in U.S.'s lower 48 since 2011


Okapi-killing warlord shot dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo


Next big idea in forest conservation? Incentivizing keeping primary forests intact


South Africa loses nearly 150 rhinos to poachers so far this year


World's biggest palm oil company makes zero deforestation commitment


General Mills, Colgate-Palmolive announce deforestation-free policies for palm oil sourcing


Brazil strips protected status from 5.2M ha


Progressive palm oil group opens door to companies, NGO's adopting zero deforestation policies


Will tigers march ahead? Scientists find surprising connections between isolated populations in Central India


Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people


Indonesia politician gets 14 years in jail for illegal permits, forest corruption


Velociraptor spider discovered in Oregon cave (pictures)


The remarkable story of how a bat scientist took on Russia's most powerful...and won


Publishing industry dramatically reduces reliance on rainforest fiber


Cocaine: the new face of deforestation in Central America


RSPO calls for greater collaboration on zero deforestation commitments


If Indonesia can't protect its orangutans, why doesn't it just 'sell' them?


Weird and mysterious: scientists find new shark species


Ivory trade's shocking toll: 65% of world's forest elephants killed in 12 years (warning: graphic image)


Javan rhino population jumps by over 10 percent


Nearly a thousand environmental activists murdered since 2002


Reduced impact logging failing to cut emissions in Indonesia


Scientists uncover new species of Andean marsupial frog


Ranking the world's best - and worst - palm oil companies in terms of sustainability


Featured video: John Oliver skewers media 'balance' on climate science in viral video


Scientists urge ban on roads in intact wilderness areas


Frog creates chemical invisibility cloak to confuse aggressive ants


Alpine bumblebees capable of flying over Mt. Everest


Scientists release odd-looking, Critically Endangered crocodiles back into the wild (PHOTOS)


Exclusive: Stunning aerial photos reveal Ecuador building roads deeper into richest rainforest on Earth (Yasuní National Park)


Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)


Proposed rail and road projects could devastate Nepal's tigers and rhinos


Scientists discover new gecko hanging-on in single forest fragment


Plastic waste ingested by worms threatens marine food chains


Conservationists catch wild Sumatran rhino, raising hope for world's most endangered rhinoceros


Next big idea in forest conservation? Offer health care for forest protection


Tipping the scale: how a political economist could save the world’s forests


A Turtle's Tale: researchers discover baby turtles' kindergarten


Greenpeace stunt targets Procter & Gamble's Cincinnati headquarters over palm oil


REDD+ could fail without near-term financial support


Scientists blast Australian leader's proposed ban on parks


Bizarre, endangered bird discovered in high densities


Next big idea in forest conservation? Privatizing conservation management


Lemur expert becomes first woman to win top conservation prize


Camera trap catches rare feline attempting to tackle armored prey (VIDEO)


Next big idea in forest conservation? Work locally, relentlessly, and, if necessary, ignore the government


Next big idea in forest conservation? Empowering everyone to watch over forests




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