Human alteration of the natural environment will make malaria increasingly difficult to control in the years to come.
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International and local demand have brought Madagascar’s palm species to the brink of extinction.
A new survey has identified millions of hectares of forest in dryland areas, a finding that boosts the total global forest cover by 9% and has significant consequences for carbon budgets.
A new report calls U.S. forests an undervalued asset for slowing climate change. It warns that they are being degraded by logging for wood, paper and fuel, particularly in the Southeast.
Climate change, deforestation, overfishing and hydrocarbon exploitation threatens one of Africa’s oldest lake’s, Lake Tanganyika.
Eat less meat, save the world
Unless they trust climate change programmes, communities will continue to plunder forests rendering such interventions redundant.
A time-series analysis of tree cover loss before, during and after road construction reveals a strong relationship between infrastructure development and accelerating deforestation.
Areas like the Flinders Ranges have provided refuge for flora and fauna when the climate has changed. But rapid temperature increases and human intervention may stop them doing so again.
You’d hope we wouldn’t flatten the pyramids to build a highway. But that’s exactly what’s happening to the world’s natural heritage sites.
How can we feed a growing world population while protecting the environment? One key strategy is to improve yields on small farms, which produce much of the food in the world’s hungriest countries.
The region faces some of the world’s highest rates of habitat loss, as well as direct over-exploitation of species.
Given that cities may be home to 80% of humanity by the end of the century, they can only be sustainable if eco-friendliness is one of their core features.
A new mapping study shows that roads have sliced and diced almost the entire land surface of Earth, leaving huge areas prone to illegal logging, mining and hunting.
Since 1992, an area of land two-thirds the size of Australia has been converted to human use.
The island’s latest mining boom threatens a critically endangered lemur – and puts human lives at risk.
Recurrent fires in Kenya’s Chyulu Hills have been linked to illegal activities and are often attributed to squatters who live in the hills.
Our appetite for avocados affects more than just our choice of sandwich filling.
With the economy in its worst slump for decades, environmental protection may be on the chopping block.
Saving the world’s forests and oceans means putting an end to slavery run by criminal gangs.
Principales colaboradores
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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CGIAR System Organization
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Associate in Tropical Forest Ecology, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
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Reader in Conservation Science, University of Kent
