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Amid price cuts, companies struggle to make bottled-water profitable
Photos: snow leopard in Afghanistan
Oil spill off Australia potential ‘disaster’ for marine wildlife
Mining and biodiversity offsets in Madagascar: Conservation or ‘Conservation Opportunities?’
New Amazonian reserve saves over a million acres in Peru
World’s rarest duck flies closer to extinction’s edge
Retailers Costco and Amazon.com flunk sustainable paper use, WalMart and Target fare little better
Cost of climate change adaptation to be 2-3 times higher than current estimates
The mysterious, fascinating, and lightning-quick mantis shrimp: An Interview with Maya deVries
Maya deVries is a graduate student studying integrative biology at Berkeley. Mongabay.com's fourth in a new series of interviews with 'Young Scientists'.
The Pope: “creation is under threat”
Pope Benedict XVI spoke today on environmental issues, singling out the importance of a September U.N. summit in New York to work on negotiations for an international framework to tackle…
Trees sprout across farmland worldwide
Snails learn from fear
Start your engines with watermelon juice
World’s largest bat threatened with extinction due to legal hunting
Tiger brutally killed in zoo, body parts taken to sell for Chinese medicine
Solar powered conservation
Militarization of scientific research could spawn deadlier weapons
The prestigious international science journal Nature recently exposed the issue of the militarization of scientific research. While research into chemical and biological compounds and weapons has been supported by many…
Unique acacia tree could play vital role in turning around Africa’s food crisis
20,000 orangutans killed or poached in 10 years without a single prosecution
Conservation group calls on birders to look for extinct species
A new effort to save global biodiversity? Just ask E.O. Wilson
Gold mining threatens world’s most infamous reptile, the Komodo dragon
World’s rarest camel survived nuclear tests but today threatened by hunger for its meat
Update: John Hare died January 28, 2022 at the age of 87. An interview with John Hare of the Wild Camel Protection Foundation Camels are among the most recognizable animals…
Environmental disappointments under Obama
Little hydroelectric dams become all the rage, but do they harm the environment?
New Zealand dairy industry contributing to rainforest destruction, says Greenpeace
Fonterra, the world's largest dairy exporter, is contributing to destruction of rainforests in Southeast Asia through its consumption of palm kernel as animal feed, alleges Greenpeace. The environmental group says…
Destruction worsens in Madagascar
Plastic Vortexes Leaching Chemicals into World’s Oceans
While scientists have acknowledged the existence of billions of pounds of plastic containers, Styrofoam, and similar waste have created massive oceanic trash vortexes (floating islands of garbage), little is known…
Lion population in Kenya could disappear in 10 to 20 years
The Kenyan Wildlife Service recently announced that massive declines in lion population may lead to their disappearance from the region within less than 2 decades. Kenya currently has an estimated…