Green prince, animated frog fight deforestation

Britain's Prince Charles has enlisted an animated amphibian in his campaign to protect the world's rainforests.

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NJ beach town ends fight over Amazon wood

A two-year battle over a New Jersey beach town's plan to buy boardwalk wood from the Amazon rain forest is ending.

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Brazil's New Forestry Law Draws Praise

New rules that allow sustainable logging of national forests in the threatened Amazon drew guarded praise from both environmentalists and loggers.

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Gold Rush Tears Up a Patch of the Amazon

It's a gold rush in the Amazon jungle, driven by the Internet. Speeding past unbroken walls of foliage, a motorboat packed with gritty prospectors veers toward the shore of the Juma river and spills its passengers into a city of black plastic lean-tos veiled by greasy smoke. All around them are newly dug pits, felled trees, misery and tales of striking it rich. This is Eldorado do Juma, scene of Brazil's biggest gold rush in more than 20 years.

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Canada Unveils Park to Protect Grizzlies

Canada unveiled a 16-million acre preserve Tuesday, including parkland covering an area twice the size of Yellowstone, teeming with grizzly bears, wolves and wild salmon in the ancestral home of many native tribes.

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In a stunning admission, Chevron`s top outside counsel on the Ecuador environmental case has publicly conceded that the company`s own lawyers met with a Chevron contractor regarding his secret video recordings just days before he taped a critical meeting in Ecuador about a purpo …

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The Age: " multinational company behind Victoria's $3.5 billion desalination plant was fined by environment authorities earlier this year for illegally logging Amazon rainforest during the construction of a hydro-electric dam".

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Love or hate the James Bond phenomenon, we bet you've had a hankering to get your hands on a nifty bit of kit that hides a secret camera or a magnet fit for unzipping ladies' dresses at some point in your fantasy life.

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This video shows us a unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships.

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Recent free trade agreements signed with the American and Canadian governments fueled the government to go ahead with changes to domestic laws that would seek to advance mineral, logging, oil and agricultural 'development' into previously untouched areas of the Amazon.

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A new analysis has shown that payments to reduce carbon emissions from the forests could generate more income than palm oil production on deforested land.

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The people who live in a remote region of Ecuador are suing Chevron, saying reckless oil exploration poisoned the most important rain forest on earth.

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THE acres upon acres of lush tropical forest in the Amazon and tropical Africa are often referred to as the planet's lungs.

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It is an environmental scourge that saddles local government with clean-up bills running into hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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Extensive spraying of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide has turned the War on Some Drugs into a War on the Rainforest

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Where does biodiversity come from and how can we preserve it? These are fundamental questions the answers to which conservation scientists now seek at a frenetic pace. Why? Because the planet - Canada included - is rapidly running out of diversity.

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NESTLED DEEP IN THE tropical rainforest on the island of Borneo, Pareh is a collection of about 60 weathered wooden houses perched on stilts and enfolded by coconut palms, banana trees, and the dappled green overhang of the towering forest.

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By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

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Review: The New California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)

Admittedly, I was a bit leery when I heard years ago that the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park was to be rebuilt--would we be losing the gators that greeted one at the entry? Or the round-about aquarium, truly a marvel to my childhood eyes.

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In the last few years a schism has occurred among biologists regarding the future of the tropics.

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...."Splintered, charred wood litters the outskirts of an expansive ranch that lies on recently cleared land in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Pope Benedict XVI has said that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.

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Companies could effectively buy areas of rainforest to protect them from destruction in return for being allowed to pollute after the UK brokered a groundbreaking deal on deforestation.

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Ecuador is the first country in the world to announce plans to leave the oil reserves beneath its rainforests in the ground. The country wants foreign businesses, including German companies, to compensate it for making this sacrifice.

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Night at the Aquarium

Unlike the hit comedy, "Night at the Museum" the exhibits at the National Aquarium in Baltimore really do come alive after hours. Well, okay they are alive during the day as well, but at night, you get to see them from a completely new perspective.

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The re-opening of the California Academy of Sciences

Last weekend, we went to the grand re-opening of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. The Academy is one of the oldest museums in the country having first opened in 1874, back when Levis jeans were $13.50 for a dozen.

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Scientists have found a new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant in the Amazon rainforest that is likely a descendant of the very first ants to evolve.

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After the Viacom-owned network finished filming their new treasure-hunt themed "Real World/Road Rules Challenge" on a remote, uninhabited island in the Republic of Panama, locals returned to find their beach tattered and abused.

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In 2006, Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo outlined an offer to place almost the entirety of Guyana's rainforest under international supervision as part of the world's battle against climate change.

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