Villagers of Sumatra and Kalimantan relunctant to participate in peatland restoration, contributing to the recent forest fires in Indonesia.
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Indonesia’s forest fires forensics, Bambang Hero Sahardjo, receives a prestigious award, John Maddox prize, opening hope for scientists to use scientific evidence for law enforcement.
Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?
With her climate strike, Greta Thunberg has upended climate politics and posed the key question of who are the real radicals in current discussions.
We have developed an online tool to help authorities identify which areas they should focus on for reducing forest fires and haze in order to maximize overall health benefits.
The government has reportedly set aside 180,000 hectares of land for construction of a new capital in East Kalimantan.
A forest professor tells his experience on the hardships of putting out peat fires in Indonesia
While the world watches the Brazilian Amazon burn, across the border in Bolivia it’s also ablaze.
Don’t blame climate change for the 39,000 forest fires now incinerating huge tracts of the Brazilian Amazon. This environmental catastrophe is human-made and highly political.
The Indonesian government should improve transparency and public access to land-use data, make the ban on new plantations on primary forests permanent, and give communities access to forests.
Increasingly severe losses for insurers due to climate change could result in a global financial crisis.
Detailed fire history information isn’t available for Mount Kenya, satellite information can help fill the gaps.
Donald Trump has threatened to use funds allocated for disaster relief to fund his border wall. It’s time to rethink how we frame disasters to stop politicians from using them for political gain.
Fires and logging changes forest soil structure for at least 30-80+ years, affecting everything from regrowth to carbon storage.
A wealth tax would put a price on past emissions and could be used to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, including vulnerability to climate change.
Forest fires emit twice as much carbon in the Brazilian Amazon as deforestation, according to new research.
A balanced research program should focus on good and rational peat management efforts that minimise environmental impacts, and on water regulation that reduces the risk of fire.
Wildfires are expected to increase in a warming world, but there is another way humans are changing the patterns and intensity of fires: by introducing flammable plants to new environments.
It took 11 years after the treaty came into force for Indonesia to ratify the agreement in 2014. But two years in, Indonesia has yet to enact regulations at the national and local level.
Italy, Portugal and Spain have all gone up in flames in recent weeks, highlighting the need to rethink how Mediterranean countries protect people and save ecosystems.
Top contributors
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Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Investigadora Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (Universidad de Oviedo - CSIC)
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Associated Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minho
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Professor of Forest Protection, IPB University
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Professeur-chercheur en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
