Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

May 02, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

The forests of the Russian Far East are being pushed to the brink of destruction due to pervasive, large-scale illegal logging, largely to supply Chinese furniture and flooring manufacturers, according to ...

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Apr 17, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1

There may one day soon be another way to fight those annoying prerecorded phone pitches known as robocalls.

Technology - Telecom

Apr 02, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 percent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 13, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Governments agreed Tuesday to step up efforts to protect threatened tree species from illegal loggers amid warnings that criminal gangs are plundering the world's forests.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 12, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Many parks and protected areas around the world are being assailed by poachers and encroachers, but a new study suggests scientific research in the parks helps to reduce such threats.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The European Union is cracking down on the timber trade in an effort to curb illegal logging, blamed for a host of ills from social upheaval to environmental and economic damage.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 01, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The preservation of the world's forests "is in China's hands", a top environmental campaign group said Thursday, accusing the biggest wood importer and consumer of fuelling the illegal timber trade.

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 29, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed nine articles of a new forestry code approved by Congress that environmentalists said would lead to further deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 18, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Father-of-five Alex Lesber patrols one of the Philippines' most important forests carrying a cheap pistol and memories of a pastor being shot dead in front of him.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 02, 2012 not rated yet 1

A unique species of near-toothless rat that lives off earthworms and doesn't chew or gnaw has been seen in Indonesia.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 23, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

Google on Saturday unveiled a cultural map of Brazil' Surui indigenous people, a digital tool that will help the Amazonian tribe share their vast knowledge of the forest and fight illegal logging.

Technology - Internet

Jun 17, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

A tribe that calls the Amazon rainforest home is urging the Brazilian government to stop the illegal logging of its land, a watchdog said Friday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 09, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 0

Brazil said Monday it was working hard to stop illegal logging in Amazon rainforest land inhabited by the ethnic Awa people, a group said to be threatened with extinction.

Space & Earth - Environment

May 22, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Greenpeace launched its latest weapon in the fight against environmental destruction Friday -- a multi-million-euro purpose-built campaign ship named Rainbow Warrior III.

Space & Earth - Environment

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