Commentary / World Feb 16, 2015

Your toothpaste is destroying Asia's rainforests

by Adam Minter

You probably had some palm oil today, which is found in roughly half of the products sold in modern supermarkets. It is the cause of one of the world's biggest environmental catastrophes, the decimation of Southeast Asia's rainforests.

Environment Jan 25, 2013

Can the discovery of oil save Ecuador's rainforest?

by John Vidal

American biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in. One is a harvester, or daddy-long-legs, another a jumping spider that leaps onto a leaf where two beetles are mating. This is the Tiputini ...