Index

1. A quick hello
2. Climate change alters the English language
3. They kill environment journalists, don’t they?
4. Borneo’s Husband-and-Wife Mountain Gods Look Down on Illegal Logging
5. The Song of the Dodo gets my vote
6. World’s most notorious wildlife smuggler caught in the act
7. Environmental or spiritual pollution – which is easiest to fix?
8. A challenge: To anyone who ever used the phrase “tree-hugger”
9. The best blogs on biodiversity?
10. Five vacant niches in the ecosystem of the biodiversity blogosphere
11. What gorillas can teach children about being human
12. The curious case of the BBC and climate change
13. Is it time to kill off ‘biodiversity’?
14. One act of stupidity and 5500 acts of reason
15. Malaysia’s million dollar question — where did the logs come from?
16. If we keep on biting the hand that feeds us, it will slap us in the face
17. When maps lie (Africa gets short-changed again)
18. Postcard from Japan: bamboo poetry in Kyoto
19. The Nazi threat and climate-change denial
20. Thank God for Fox News…
21. One great way to visualise climate change
22. More climate change but is it the right climate change?
23. The dark history and uncertain future of edible pink gold
24. You’ve got to be in it to win it
25. Ask not what you can do for nature… Ask what nature can do for you
26. 25 tips for climate change journalists
27. Postcard from Qatar: A rainbow of rabbits and soft fluffy chicks
28. One Year Under the Banyan
29. “We use arrows to kill outsiders who threaten us” — Really?
30. Climate change needs a Gandhi not a Gore
31. Mapping the moral high ground amid rising seas and sarcasm
32. Blacklisted by Canada… for drawing climate-change cartoons?
33. How to talk to the media… How not to talk to the media
34. Q: When is a forest not a forest? A: When no-one knows
35. One less star in Africa tonight
36. Please Queen, can Mr Cameron come out to play?
37. What does your government tell you about climate change?
38. Postcard from Durban: Greener football and tree-preneurs
39. Time for faith in our environment
40. Postcard from Jersey: Red sky at night
41. Tweet-by-tweet: COP17 Climate Communications Day
42. Game reveals complex links between poverty and threats to apes
43. Millions of long lost logs and a single special tree
44. Golden green grunge for rare red orangutans
45. Borneo’s eco-stranded apes with nowhere to call home
46. The near empty forest that proves conservation is failing
47. Rafts of rubber and a hotel for birds with spit that sells
48. A rare encounter between man and beast
49. The humbling history of the tiny wasps that upset a Jurassic Park narrative
50. A cautionary tale: Kony 2012 – The backlash
51. Guardian ‘international development journalism’ contest excludes journalists from developing nations — again
52. What trees tell us when we stand close and listen
53. Postcard from Hanoi: A city of a thousand fig trees
54. A tale of typhoons, trees and tiny creatures that stood between a community and climate resilience
55. Where honey means money and climate means change
56. Lost in a forest in search of a golden vale and black magic
57. Journalists are dying to tell stories of environmental plunder
58. What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing
59. Why following the herd can be good for journalists
60. An obituary for long-dead elephants
61. Postcard from London: Autumn leaves as autumn arrives
62. Southern Beasts: a story to spark climate conversations
63. Will Obama let the climate do all the talking?
64. Postcard from Jersey: Why a child played on ancient graves
65. Climate change communication: ‘A’ is for audience
66. Missing women might explain failure of UN climate change talks
67. A big thank-you to readers from 165 countries
68. Why blog? Ten things I learned about blogging this year
69. The mystery bird that called for a dictionary of vanishing voices
70. An unexpected encounter with a little devil
71. Confession: I ate shark fin soup
72. A job for conservation’s keystone cops
73. Who eats figs? Everybody
74. Mali’s giant trees and fortune-telling foxes
75. Q&A with Paul Glynn, author of King Bruno
76. King Bruno: A chimpanzee’s tale of tragedy and hope
77. Time to join the dots on environmental murders
78. In under three minutes, a year in a forest
79. Kill off the animals and you change the forest — fast
80. A bit naughty? Secret filming exposes murky world of rainforest politics
81. If we cook these tiny wasps, we put the heat on hundreds of other species
82. Can anyone identify the two birds in these paintings?
83. Unhappy endlings: What tales of the last days of extinct and dying species can bring to our own story
84. A changing climate demands change in narratives
85. Climate change: Teens teach where others don’t reach