- Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers—"The last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique have been wiped out by poachers apparently working in cahoots with the game rangers responsible for protecting them, it has emerged."
- There's a country that will pay $300,000 per rhino horn to cure cancer and hangovers, and it's wiping out rhinos
- Elephant 'tramples to death suspected poacher'
- Gabon steps in to help protect elephants from ivory poaching at Central African Republic site
- China is plundering the planet's seas—and it's doing it 12.5 times more than it's telling anybody
- 'Victory for bees' as European Union bans neonicotinoid pesticides blamed for destroying bee population
- DiCaprio's Movie Pals Aid Tiger in $39 Million Auction
- Indonesia's tropical forests set to benefit from further clearing ban—"Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expected to sign extended deal to help restore habitat of tigers and orangutans." Related: Can Ecotourism Save Indonesia's Disappearing Forests?
- Study links insecticide use to invertebrate die-offs—"Dutch research reveals correlation between water polluted with imidacloprid and low numbers of aquatic insects."
- Lion tacos spark outrage in Florida but will remain on menu—" Serving lion meat is legal in the US because lions are 'threatened,' but not 'endangered.'"
- Don't cry climate-change wolf—"For now, blaming the Moore, Okla., tornado on global warming is bad science and bad politics." Salon
- Oklahoma Senators Jim Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Face Difficult Options On Disaster Relief—Inhofe claims it's "totally different." (Maybe because it happened in his state.)
- Tornado had winds over 200 mph
- How could so many have survived Okla. monster tornado?—Bill Nye says that "it's going to happen again."
- Wolf Blitzer Asks Tornado Survivor If She Thanked the Lord; Tells Him She's an Atheist
- Alaskan villages try "climigration" in the face of climate change
- Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study
- Zombie climate sceptic theories survive only in newspapers and on TV
- Tribes vow to fight-to-the-death to save Amazon rainforest
- Peru spares Amazon rainforest from oil and gas push
- DENR's new mission takes wrong course—"DENR, prior to Gov. Pat McCrory, had a straightforward mission to conserve and protect North Carolina's natural resources. When McCrory became governor, the DENR revised its mission statement to fundamentally change its role."
- The GOP Walkout on Obama's EPA Pick Shows Senate Is as Polluted as Earth
- Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark—"Daily measurements of CO2 at a US government agency lab on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million for the first time."
- China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
- Texas to take BP and Halliburton to court—"Texas, alleges the companies and others 'engaged in wilful and wanton misconduct' in the 2010 Deep Horizon oil spill."
- AR to Residents Sick From Exxon Oil Spill: You're On Your Own
- A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit—"Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block."
- Greenpeace blames Coke for Channel 9 'choke'
- China wrestles with stubborn air polluters
- 19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the World's Oceans
- Amy Meyer's Ag-Gag Charges Have Been Dropped!—She was filming on public property.
- TN Governor to veto 'Ag-Gag' bill—"The governor released a statement saying his decision is based, in part, on the state attorney general’s opinion that the law would be constitutionally suspect. It also appears that it could repeal portions of Tennessee’s Shield Law, which protects news reporters from incursions by law enforcement."
- Opinion: The terrible price of ag-gag laws—"Rather than shutting observers out of slaughterhouses, we should open the doors even wider."
- Ag-Gag Laws Could Make America Sick
- How undercover animal rights activists are winning the Ag-Gag war
- State official pleads guilty in Butterball farm raid leak—"The state's top poultry veterinarian pleaded guilty Wednesday to tipping off officials at Butterball before a December raid on one of its turkey operations in Hoke County."
- Australia halts cattle exports to Egypt over 'cruelty'
- Rat meat sold as lamb in Shanghai, police say
- China arrests 900 in fake meat scandal—"Chinese authorities seize 20,000 tonnes of illegal meat products and detains gang passing off fox, mink and rat as mutton."
- Potato price-fixing costs consumers millions
