JPMorgan Chase has agreed to expand its policies addressing deforestation after pressure from shareholders, led by the investment group Green Century Capital Management.
Some of the province's biggest water guzzlers are paying as little as 28 cents for an Olympic-size swimming pool's worth of freshwater in a system that has little transparency and does little to track the overall impact of industrial water consumption.
In the heart of Indonesian Borneo, a dwindling population of orangutans is getting a new lease on life thanks to a group of wildlife rescuers and medical professionals who have joined forces.
The way humans have changed the forests of Central and South America may be making it impossible for subsistence hunters to continue their way of life, according to two conservation scientists.
Lax due diligence by European companies is driving the illegal harvest of timber in Ukraine, one of the largest suppliers to the continent, according to a recent report.
The findings place Asia Pulp & Paper squarely in the middle of an emerging debate about the presence of "shadow companies" among the holdings of the conglomerates that dominate Indonesia's plantation sector.
We found no evidence that advocacy campaigns on their own drive long-term forest conservation, though they do appear to be valuable in terms of raising awareness of environmental issues and driving people to take action.
