Australia is at the epicentre of this world's 6th greatest extinction. Australian forests are being slaughtered. All within them is being destroyed. Forests are being crushed, felled and burnt...

In this NASA timelapse, satellite images show the rapid deforestation of the amazonian rainforest.

The Alberta Oil Sands (Saudi Arabia of the North) as it is proudly refered to in the oil industry has proven to be a financial boom to the Canadian economy. It has also proven to be an environmental nightmare!

One of the world's most extensive built environment portals, all courtesy of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Architects can keep up with professional matters, and a members only area offers exclusive services to members.

Take the fact that in the next 12 years, we're projected to add another billion people. Since a billion seconds equal 31.7 years, at the rate people are arriving, we can't even count them.

Industries in north-eastern China have released large quantities of an ozone-depleting gas into the atmosphere in violation of an international treaty, according to scientists..

Vietnamese companies have been ruthlessly taking advantage of Laotian locals and their environment to create vast rubber plantations. The "rubber lords" are also getting support for the land grabs from Germany's Deutsche Bank, which is violatin...

If you want to see what our failing governments are doing to protect our well-being as well as our one and only planet, check this out.

There are more and more reasons to Say No to Plastics. Most plastic bags are used an average of 12 minutes, yet their real life span, unless recycled, is many hundreds of years. The plastic trash building up in our oceans is a ticking time bomb.

The IUCN helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges.