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PHOTO: The Cutest Sloth Of The Week

Posted 06.09.2013 | Green

Last week, we wrote about Monique Pool, a woman in Suriname who rescued 200 sloths after cattle farmers destroyed their forest home in the Guiana Shi...

PHOTO: A Sloth In A Bowl!

Posted 06.02.2013 | Green

Sloths are a major part of our animal coverage here at HuffPost Green, and a recent story about Monique Pool, a woman in Suriname who rescued 200 of t...

WATCH: Hundreds Of Sloths Rescued After Home Destroyed

Posted 05.30.2013 | Green

One woman's efforts to save homeless sloths has landed her with hundreds of the cuddly forest dwellers, leading her to become "slothified," a word she...

Hillary Clinton Weighs In On Climate Change

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.17.2013 | Green

"We are in a race against time," former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday night, in an interview with actor Harrison Ford. "We st...

Protecting Nature Is Critical to Maintain Global Security

Peter Seligmann | Posted 06.03.2013 | Green
Peter Seligmann

The world's growing population -- expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050 -- is predicted to double demands on our planet's dwindling supply of food, fresh water, energy and other resources we can't live without.

PHOTOS: Stunning Animal Portraits Captured In Massive Camera Trap Network

Posted 02.26.2013 | Green

In an effort to provide comprehensive, real-time data about the health of the planet's forests, a group of scientists has set up a vast network of cam...

Mapping the Mangroves with Tablets and Tethrs in Al Khor, Doha, Qatar

Chris Abraham | Posted 02.21.2013 | Home
Chris Abraham

In Al Khor, along the coast just north of Doha, students gathered with tablet computers and waded out into the salt marsh to garner data transmitting from wireless sensors positioned in the mangroves.

Diving With the Dream Team

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 11.06.2012 | Green
Jennifer Schwab

I am scuba diving in the South Pacific, about six hours due south of Hawaii by air. As exotic and remote a locale as this is, the real story is not where I am but whom I have the honor to dive with.

Language Diversity Is Highest in Biodiversity Hotspots

Russell Mittermeier | Posted 05.10.2012 | Green
Russell Mittermeier

These biodiversity hotspots and wilderness areas must be among our top priorities for terrestrial conservation if we hope to preserve Earth's natural ecosystem services and biodiversity for future generations of people.

A Sea Change in Ocean Conservation

Peter Seligmann | Posted 05.15.2012 | Green
Peter Seligmann

Marine conservation is not just critical for the health of our oceans.

Conservation 2.5 -- An Essential Upgrade for Human Survival

Peter Seligmann | Posted 04.02.2012 | Green
Peter Seligmann

If we can get decision makers to value nature's services, if we can help them understand that this is in their enlightened self-interest, then we can transition to sustainable development.

PHOTOS: Armored Catfish And Cowboy Frog Among 1,300 Species Documented In Suriname

Posted 01.25.2012 | Green

An armored catfish, a Pac-Man frog and a cowboy frog were some of the 1,300 species documented during a scientific survey conducted by Conservation In...

The Most Dangerous Places To Live If You're A Sea Turtle

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Christian | Posted 11.29.2011 | Green

Sea turtles be warned: A new report has found nesting sites in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are some of the most dangerous places in the world for ...

PHOTOS: Good News For Hawksbill Sea Turtles In Eastern Pacific ... They're Not Extinct!

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 10.31.2011 | Green

Scientists have for some time now assumed that the hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) was functionally extinct in the eastern tropical Paci...

PHOTOS: The Secret Lives Of Animals

Posted 10.16.2011 | Green

Finally -- the chance to be a fly on the wall in the secret lives on animals. No film set, no circus, no desperate YouTube video. Just animals in thei...

Partnerships for the Planet: Why We Must Engage Corporations

Peter Seligmann | Posted 07.19.2011 | Green
Peter Seligmann

Conservation International's corporate engagement practices have been attacked recently in a so-called "sting." At CI, we take our mission to protect the environment very seriously. Here are the facts.

Tom Zeller Jr.

Green Group Duped By Video Sting

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 07.17.2011 | Green

For some environmental advocates -- including prominent supporters like the actor Harrison Ford and the band the Dixie Chicks -- Conservation Internat...

PHOTOS: The Coolest New Animal Discoveries -- 'Yoda Bat,' 'Walking Shark,' 'Dinospider' And More

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.13.2011 | Green

Conservation International (CI) is celebrating two decades of its successful Rapid Assessment Program (RAP), which has led to the discovery of over 1,...

Fashioning Change in the Big (Green) Apple and Beyond

Susan Cohn Rockefeller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Susan Cohn Rockefeller

The worlds of fashion, art and the environment don't often collide, even in New York City. But that is exactly what's happening on March 29 at the second annual Christie's Green Auction.

A Technology Pioneer's Top 10 of Davos

Carol Realini | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Carol Realini

I thought I would create my own list of "bests" for Davos. Not to contradict the top 25 award, but to see Davos through a different lens. So here is one Technology Pioneer's Top 10.

PHOTOS: Mozart, 'Ventriloquist' And Other Frogs Found After Missing For Decades

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

When an expedition team set off to Haiti in search of a missing frog, little did they know that they would rediscover six other frog species instead. ...

The Most Powerful NGO You've Probably Never Heard of

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Andrew Winston

Stepping away from the old-style NGO approach to companies, the CDP and its leaders are both optimistic and relentlessly pro-business.

PHOTOS: Hundreds Of Incredible New Species Discovered

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

SYDNEY (AP) -- A thumbnail-sized frog with a long snout, a brilliant green katydid with bright pink eyes and a mouse with a white-tipped tail are amon...

Fighting Global Warming by Saving British Columbia's Old Growth Forests

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Dr. Reese Halter

The Western Climate Initiative, a group of seven western states and four Canadian provinces, have joined forces in a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fools Day: Environmental Activists In 30 Cities Take On Corporate Polluters

It's Getting Hot In Here | Matt Wilkerson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

More than 30 cities throughout North America have organized demonstrations against the fossil fuel industry, corporate banks and big environmental org...