The climate emergency can’t be addressed with simplistic solutions. A network of Indigenous communities in Brazil invites us to reorient colonial approaches and embrace deeper change.
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Towering trees in African tropical mountain forests are a vital, overlooked carbon store threatened by deforestation.
The decline of forest creatures like the Chapman’s chameleon are warning signs that forests are losing integrity.
For one of Earth’s most biodiverse forests, 21,000 years of natural change pale in comparison to modern, man-made climate breakdown.
Australians should see the rainforest as a cultural landscape – one that has been managed and maintained by people, rather than just a relic unchanged since the dinosaurs.
Planting trees can sometimes be a carbon-offset box-ticking exercise, but reforestation is a long-term commitment that supports communities, promotes biodiversity and tackles the climate emergency.
Join The Conversation as we answer children’s questions on the rainforest.
The projected loss of water storage on land as global temperatures rise is especially alarming in the Southern Hemisphere – and in parts of the US.
In the Amazon, beetles and flowering trees have developed a tight bond. Hundreds of beetle species thrive off of and pollinate blossoms, helping to maintain some of the highest biodiversity on Earth.
Humans have caused ecosystems to collapse on purpose for millennia, to grow food or build settlements. But unplanned collapses are a different matter.
To understand the barriers endangered species face when trying to traverse their habitat, it helps to think of their environment like an electrical circuit board.
Massive study looked at more than half a million trees in 813 forests across the tropics.
Two hundred years of forced dispossession cannot erase millennia of land ownership and connection to country.
A new method of using camera traps has brought good and bad news for conservationists.
Population growth and attendant human activities are destroying a freshwater ecosystem.
About 24,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest have been deforested over the last decade.
As deforestation rates in Brazil rise, it’s worth asking whether the country can repeat the successes of the last decade. Current trends don’t bode well.
After five centuries of extraction, the Amazon region stands on the brink.
Not only can plants survive fire, they can use the experience of being burned to prepare themselves for future blazes.
Play and learning are one and the same for Mbendjele children.
Principais colaboradores
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Lecturer in Statistical Ecology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Professor of Sustainability, Bangor University
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Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond
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Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of British Columbia
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Sydney
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Honorary fellow, University of York
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Research Fellow, University of York
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds, UCL
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Professor, Interim Director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC and Incoming Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria., University of British Columbia
