Editor's Note: A weekly roundup from our friends over at TreeHugger. Enjoy! Bucking the Trend, Stern & Pachauri Maintain a Global Climate Deal Still Possible in Copenhagen With the needle of expectation tilting towards no full climate deal...

This news is particularly relevant heading into Copenhagen...for those who think conservation of any kind is impossible or unattainable or out of keeping with American goals. The US Geological Survey released a study today showing that Americans...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva earlier this month announced that Brazil will cut its deforestation rate by 80 percent by 2020, a move he said would reduce the country's carbon dioxide emissions by 4.8 billion tonnes. That's significant,...

Mark Schapiro's story from our November/December issue, "GM's Money Trees," on a controversial carbon-offset in Brazil, has just gone live online. Traveling with Mark in the Amazon was a team from Frontline/World, the PBS investigative series, which...

These tiny, playful primates are nicknamed squirrel monkeys. You can see them chattering and roughhousing with each other in the video below, which co-stars some befuddled, middle-aged Americans vacationing in Costa Rica.  The mono titi is one of...