How does promoting modern seed varieties impact forest conservation?
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A study shows changed patterns of deforesation.
A study shows changed patterns of deforesation.
Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon…
I’ll preface this post with a caveat — the data herein are a few years old (certainly pre-COVID), so things have likely changed…
Betts et al. 2022 Forest degradation drives widespread avian habitat and population declines. Nature Ecology and Evolution DOI…
What COP26 Means for Forests and the…
New technology put to good use.
Dans un rapport publié la semaine dernière portant sur les « Évènements majeurs de déforestation (EMD) 2019 » au Cameroun, on…
Dans un rapport publié la semaine dernière portant sur les « Évènements majeurs de déforestation (EMD) 2019 » au Cameroun, on…
This is something people not familiar with the fires worry about. If we don't stop them in time, won’t these fires sweep across…
Our history and culture are intimately tied to the planet’s forests and the services they provide to all living beings. In…
Africa is projected to be home to nearly 2.8 billion people by 2100, but rapid population growth will cause widespread…
Almost a decade ago, I (co-) wrote a paper examining the socio-economic correlates of gross, national-scale indices of…
Six years ago, I invited readers to guess the most-cited ecology paper published in the previous 10 years. Ecology’s most-cited…
Together, aesthetic awareness and scientific analysis puts us in direct, sensory relationship with the forest and gives us the…
Fifty football pitches worth of forest were apparently lost every minute between 2000 and 2012 according to a recent paper by…
Lista non esaustiva di cause, effetti e colpevoli di un processo, quello della perdita di foreste pluviali, che ci coinvolge…
SPECIALE GIUGNO – Brasile, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Indonesia: è qui che si concentra il 60% delle foreste pluviali…
To curb climate change, we need to protect and expand US forests.
Land use changes in French Guiana make it possible for a potentially debilitating bacteria to thriveContinue reading on Pacific…
You can't fool satellites.
Tropical conservation benefits the world, but we’ll fund it only if we’re convinced that deforestation will really happen
Nicaragua is home to what is perhaps the last wild frontier of Central America. The nation boasts over one-quarter of the region…
It started, as many things do, with a rumor. In 2013 Matt Finer, a researcher with the Amazon Conservation Association, heard…
Environment Photo credit: Along with their beauty, rainforests shape the local climate, and without them less…
In the last few years, there has been heartening news, based on new scientific data, about progress in reducing global…
New research suggests there are just over 3tn trees on Earth, which is eight times more than scientists previously thought.
By the end of the century, the world’s remaining tropical forests will be left in a fragmented, simplified, and degraded state.
Environment Photo credit: Beautiful scenes like this may soon be a thing of the past. The Whiteview/Shutterstoc…
In our recent series on the top climate change papers, we brought you which ones scientists think are the most influential…
Monitoring tree cover and tree cover losses from 2001 – 2012 has delivered valuable new data. Photo courtesy of Vahur Puik …
According to a report by Survival International, the existence of the isolated Ayoreo Totobiegosode people is critically…
From the Chronicle (What the Year's Most-Noticed Research Papers Tell Us About Ourselves): Skim the 100 most-discussed…
A rare strain of malaria is beginning to take hold in Malaysia, driven by increasing contact between humans and monkeys.
Unilever and WRI have worked together to increase transparency in agricultural supply chains in order to stall the pace of…
By Peter Kanowski, Australian National…
Borneo's tropical forests have fallen at twice the rate as the rest of the world's felled rainforests
Earth Engine is a tool produced by the developers at Google to help scientists process the numerous satellite images taken of…
Una plataforma 'online' creada por el Instituto de Recursos Mundiales, Google y la ONU, entre otros, permitirá monitorizar en…
In appreciation for all the benefits forests provide for us, the United Nations has announced today, March 21, be recognized as…
From a Joint Announcement: The World Resources Institute (WRI), Google, and a group of more than 40 partners launched Global…
By Crystal Davis and Dave Thau By the time we find out about deforestation, it’s usually too late to take action. Scientists…
Tree cover (green), loss (red) and gain (blue), per Hansen et al. (2013). “A total of 20 terapixels of data were processed…
This is a little bit of a bandwagon – the ‘retrospective’ post at the end of the year – but this one is not merely a rehash I’ve…
Via Science This was a good year for map lovers. The Internet is increasingly awash in awesome visualizations, charts, old…
It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers (and other stuff…
In Georgia, northern Florida, and other southern states, landowners harvest trees for timber and quickly plant their…
by Michael…
This month a team of scientists published a paper in Science that quantifies global forest change, releasing a phenomenal…
Shutterstock A little more than 300,000 square miles of forest was established or replanted worldwide between 2000 and 2012.
Want to know where we're destroying the world's forests? Here's the very first high-resolution map showing the change in the…
Large swaths of Brazil’s Amazon have been wiped out, but deforestation there is starting to slow. Photo by Kate Evans for…
Forests are disappearing globally, a fact that unfortunately shouldn't surprise you. But it's also not a particularly helpful…