Here’s something for you to ponder the next time you’re in the bathroom: American’s love for soft toilet paper is ecologically hard on forests! … fluffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin American countries, including some percenta...

  We spent most of the weekend complaining about how peeved we were to be missing the New Orleans Mardi Gras, mainly venting to people standing next to us at New York's many Mardi Gras parties. It would've helped ease our guilty conscience over not supporting the Katrina-ravaged economy...

Mongabay: Last week Brazil unveiled plans to cut deforestation substantially from a 1996-2005 baseline of 19,533 squaure kilometers per year. The announcement met a mixed response from conservationists. Some applauded the decision to set hard targets for reducing deforestation, others say the target...

Click here to view the embedded video. So your organization worked your collective butts off, applied pressure, deluged politicians with postcards, filled the streets with demonstrators and finally achieved your goal: the government sat down with you and hammered out a deal. You both signed on the d...

Monitor: Without shame, and respect to public opinion, government is back to its old schemes to give away about 7,100 hectares of a national treasure- Mabira tropical rainforest- to Mehta Group for sugarcane growing. But the most bizarre aspect of this latest government plot is the uncoordinated and...

The wild and free Xingu River is critical to maintaining intact the Amazon, its peoples and the Earth we share TAKE ACTION! The Brazilian government is planning to build what would be the world´s third largest dam on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon [search]. The Xingu River in northeast Bra...

TAKE ACTION: Dam construction must not damn opportunity for protection of one of Asia's last intact, fully functional natural ecosystems. The Cardamom Mountains [search] in Southwest Cambodia -- one of the worldÂ’s priceless ecological treasures -- contain the region's last true wilderness with unto...

Associated Press: Federal agents swooped in to close sawmills and confiscate wood in a government crackdown on illegal logging less than three months ago. But now tractors are moving logs again in this Amazon town and locals are back to turning wood scraps into charcoal, an example of the difficulty...

Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia have pledged to stop expanding plantations into rainforests [ark]. In late 2006 Ecological Internet was the first to launch a large international protest campaign on this matter -- bringing to the world's attention how oil palm plantations on carbon rich tro...

The last two mornings a lovely bird has greeted me on the stairs by flying up and landing on my finger. No, really. If it weren't for that exploding bird scene in Shrek, I would have broken into song. Yesterday's greeting came after a rough night due to the hubby being on-call. Conveniently, he had ...