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A study shows how rising oil and gas demand is leading to major exploration in the Western Amazon, threatening the forest and indigenous people.

Mangroves are of great economic value to the Mexican fishing industry and should be protected, say researchers.

Brazil is set to launch a satellite, carrying a British-made high-tech camera, in 2011 for various applications including environmental observation.

Researchers have called for more planning and better collaboration to make two of China's environmental programmes more sustainable.

Protected conservation areas attract human settlement rather than drive people away, which could threaten biodiversity, finds a study.

According to the UN, destruction of mangroves in Myanmar contributed heavily to the damaged caused by cyclone Nargis last week.

An inadequate response to early warnings and destruction of mangrove forests worsened the devastation of cyclone Nargis, say experts.

Carefully designed reward schemes for reducing deforestation could prove lucrative for tropical forest conservation, say researchers.

Two environmental organisations have struck an investment deal that will help conservation and research in Guyana's rainforests.

A round-up of news from or about South Asia for the period 1–15 March 2008.

A round up of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 25 February–12 March 2008.

Two new research papers indicate that biofuel production can carry an unrecognised cost by indirectly increasing carbon emissions.

Two Latin American countries, Colombia and Costa Rica, have made the top ten of an environmental management rating.

After 15 years of negotiations, Chile has approved a law to promote forestry research and sustainable use of its native forest.

Developing countries will be helped to protect their forests from deforestation — and then sell the emissions cuts — under a new scheme.

Tackling deforestation can contribute positively to climate change, but effects on poor forest communities must be considered, says a report.

The Clean Development Mechanism must focus less on the market and more on actually tackling climate change, says an Indian organisation.

Little economic benefit has been gained from Indonesia's deforestation and land use change, according to a report.

Costa Rica's tropical forest will benefit from a plan to swap debt owed to the United States for funds to be spent on forest protection.

Plans to connect regions isolated by the Amazon rainforest for trade and development are putting the forest at risk, according to a report.