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The age of a forest can influence how effectively it offsets our emissions.
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In general, the larger the tree, the more carbon it stores.
Pangolins have been found with covonaviruses that are genetically similar to the one afflicting humans today.
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Yellow fever, malaria and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical forests. The new coronavirus is the latest zoonosis.
Forests around the world are changing, affecting unique biodiversity.
Malkolm Boothroyd
New findings show how changes in land use have complex effects on animal and plant species.
A forest cat.
Captured by the project's camera trap.
The conventional view is that Madagascar has no native cats. Yet, cats are plentiful.
An Amazonian man surveys the swollen river.
Daniel Tregidgo
Local people are caught in an impossible situation – stay home and starve or venture out to buy food, potentially bringing the virus home too.
Ghana’s forests require better care if cocoa farming is to be sustainable.
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The rising demand on the world market for cocoa has put pressure on Ghana’s forests.
Omo Forest, a home for elephants, in Ijebu East and North Local Government Areas, Ogun State, Nigeria
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Protected areas in Nigeria are generally hampered by limited funds and resources.
Forest in Gunung Leuser National Park.
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Declaring conservation areas is meant to preserve nature. Why is this approach still failing?
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The forestry industry wants to remove damaged logs from native forests after the bushfires. But our wildlife needs them now more than ever.
The Rim Fire burned 256,000 acres of the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park in 2013.
(USDA Forest Service, Chris Stewart)
Wildfires reduce the reliability of city water supplies in North America. But active forest management provides a key to the solution.
EPA-EFE/Martin Alipaz
A new study revealed that indigenous territories store more than half the carbon in the Amazon forest.
Breathe in the fresh forest air.
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Without care, reforestation projects can damage ecosystems and be useless as carbon stores. Here’s how to go about it the right way.
Indigenous Marind in West Papua consider the forest and its plants and animals as kin. These culturally valued multispecies relations, however, are being disrupted by oil palm development projects.
Sophie Chao
Indigenous Marind in West Papua consider the forest and its plants and animals as kin. These culturally valued multispecies relations, however, are being disrupted by oil palm development projects.
A toucan eating a fruit in the tropical wetlands of the Pantanal, Brazil.
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In the absence of animals to help larger trees reproduce, forests are suffering.
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Restoring Britain’s woodlands and peatlands isn’t just a utopian dream.
The El Segundo Chevron oil refinery, left, and the Bom Futuro National Forest, right.
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California’s new plan to fight global climate change is innovative. But it raises tricky ethical questions with no easy answers.
Prescribed fires are often done to eliminate weeds and renew the grasses in pastures for ranching across the Amazon.
Paulo Massoca
Reversing the damage from fires in Brazil’s rainforest is not as simple as allowing trees to grow back. Decades of research shows how fires degrade their long-term health and utility.
Active fire hotspots detected by S-NPP/VIIRS on September 7 2019.
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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.
Smoke from wildfires in Siberia drifts east toward Canada and the U.S. on July 30, 2019.
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A researcher based in Fairbanks, Alaska, links 2019’s record-breaking wildfires in far northern regions of the world to climate change, and describes what it’s like as zones near her city burn.