BEAR RAINFOREST ALLIANCE: On Monday, First Nations, environmentalists, foresters, and government officials came together to announce a deal to protect the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. Logging will be allowed on only about 550,000 hectares of 3.65 million hectares.

 ADIOS DAMS: Despite resistance from Congress, federal officials and the states of California and Oregon will move forward with the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River.  

OILY DEAL: The government of Ecuador sold the oil exploration rights to 500,000 acres of pristine rainforest to China. Indigenous groups strongly oppose the deal.  

EYE IN THE SKY: In Lima, Peru, vultures fitted with GoPros and GPS are being used to find illegal trash piles. Around 80 percent of the city's trash ends up in the streets or illegal dumps. 

JAPANESE ROBOT FARM: The Japanese vegetable-producing company Spread has announced that by mid 2017 it will have the world's first automated farm. All but one of the functions to grow tens of thousands of lettuce indoors will be completed by robots.