World’s Largest Mangrove Forest Reels from Aggressive Development Conservation, Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceMarch 29, 2021Comment
The Path to Our Next Pandemic Most Popular, Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceApril 22, 2020 Comment
Hidden Risks of the Belt & Road: Financiers Beware! Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceSeptember 30, 2019Comment
Borneo Road-Building Spree Among ‘World’s Scariest’ Environmental Threats Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJanuary 28, 2019 Comments
Learning to Say ‘No’ to Risky Mega-Projects Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceDecember 13, 2018 Comments
Surging Development Dangers in Indonesian New Guinea Infrastructure Expansion, Editors PicksBill LauranceDecember 4, 2018 Comment
The Trouble with Environmental Impact Assessments Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceNovember 23, 2018 Comments
Should We Fear the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank? Infrastructure Expansion, Editors PicksBill LauranceJune 24, 2018AIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Transport Sector Strategy, roads, railways, ports, airports, sea ports, China, Belt and Road Initiative, greening infrastructure, carbon emissions, Pandora's Box effect, deforestatoon, deforestation, habitat fragmentation, poaching, illegal mining, land grabs, strategic land-use planning, SEAs, strategic environmental assessments, biodiversity hotspot, Important Bird Areas, Key Biodiversity Areas, Global 200 Ecoregions, corruption, governance, stranded assets, foreign debt, wilderness, threatened species, tigers, Saiga antelope, Giant Pandas Comments
Investors Beware: Infrastructure Projects Are Collapsing Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJune 3, 2018China, Belt and Road Initiative, One Belt One Road, high-speed railway, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, investors, infrastructure, railway, road, hydropower, dam, hydroelectric dam, PNG-LNG, Papua New Guinea - Liquid Natural Gas Project, Papua New Guinea, natural gas, tax avoidance, ExxonMobil, social violence, Amazon, Brazilian Amazon, deforestation, poaching, illegal mining, Michel Temer, President Lula, Brazil, corruption, bribery, risk-reward tradeoff, transparency, developing nations, Australia, Darwin Harbor, Darwin Port, Exim, Chinese Export-Import Bank, Xi Jinping Comment
China's Belt & Road is "Environmentally Riskiest Venture Ever" Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceMay 23, 2018Belt and Road Initiative, One Belt One Road, China, infrastructure, roads, Bill Laurance, Asia, Africa, Asia-Pacific region, Europe, habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, railroads, ports, extractive industries, global warming, fossil fuels, poaching, extinction, protected areas Comment
What a Giant Snake can Teach us About Designing Cities for the Future Infrastructure Expansion, Most PopularBill LauranceApril 20, 2018urban growth, urban planning, cities, megacities, wildlife, wildlife-friendly cities, Amesthetine Python, roadkill, urban biodiversity, cassowary, grizzly bear, connectivity, greenbelt, wildlife corridor, riparian vegetation, habitat fragmentation, pets, dogs, cats, feral animals, landscapes of fear, housing sprawl, urban islands, stepping stones, Singapore Index, proactive land-use planning, air pollution, flooding, water quality, carbon storage, heat-islands, epidemic disease, nature education, Cairns Comment
Is China so Big it Only Listens to Itself? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceFebruary 9, 2018China, One Belt One Road, Belt and Road Initiative, Polar Silk Road, 21st Century Silk Road, Chinese Academy of Sciences, big data, roads, infrastructure, extractive industries, mining, logging, Xi Jinping, public media, propaganda, Trump Administration Comments
Why Chop the Amazon Rainforest in Half? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJanuary 10, 2018Amazon, rainforest, road, BR-319, BR-174, Manaus, Porto Velho, habitat fragmentation, poaching, logging, fires, BR-163, Rio Negro Bridge, William Laurance, Philip Fearnside, land speculation, illegal mining Comments
New Roads Are Devastating The Congo Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceOctober 15, 2017Congo, deforestation, logging, mining, illegal logging, poaching, Cross River Gorilla, Cameroon, Nigeria, Eugene Dongmo, Louis Nkembi, Arend de Haas, GLAD data, time-series, infrastructure, roads, fragmentation, EIAs, protected areas, law enforcement, China, Chinese loggers, Chinese miners, remote-sensing data, cultural conservation, Africa, rainforest Comments
Mining Madness In The Amazon Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceSeptember 26, 2017Ecuador, mining, industrial mining, illegal gold mining, Michel Temer, John Seed, Philip Fearnside, Protected Forests, Bosques Protectores, mining concessions, PADDD, endemic birds, Andes, RENCA, roads, deforestation, garampeiros, illegal roads, Ruralist Comments
Deadly Din: The Growing Assault of Noise Pollution Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJuly 17, 2017noise, car noise, noise pollution, decibels, blood pressure, heart disease, stress, hearing impairments, immune effects, birth defects, developing nations, protected areas, USA, Europe, migrating birds, road avoidance, Henry David Thoreau, invisible habitat deteriorationComment
How Roads Can Cause Economic and Social Meltdown Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJune 3, 2017roads, highways, infrastructure, deforestation, carbon emissions, poaching, wildlife, wildfires, Pandora's Box, video, land-use planning, economic benefits, social stability, social benefits, jobs, politics, development policyComment
Road Rage: The Real Reason Roads Are So Dangerous Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceMay 25, 2017roads, highways, infrastructure, Asia, Africa, Amazon, poaching, deforestation, land-use planning, land-use change, climate change, global warming, James Cook University, TESS, ALERT, developing countries, developing nationsComment
Which Nations Are Causing The Most Environmental Damage? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceApril 4, 2017deforestation, foreign investment, AIIB, tropical deforestation, Latin America, South America, China, pollution havens, belt and road project, World Bank, carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, extinction, Yale Environment 360, poaching, wildlife poaching, illegal wildlife trade, ivory, ivory smuggling, rhino horn, pangolinComment
