Before you stock the pantry with chocolate this Easter, think twice about whether it's ethically produced.
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Mennonites settled in Paraguay's arid Chaco forest a century ago, fleeing religious persecution. Their agricultural success is now driving deforestation, social change and rapid development.
A new study finds 70% of Amazonian dung beetles were killed by the severe fire and droughts of 2015 to 2016. By spreading seeds and poop, dung beetles fertilize forests and aid regrowth of vegetation.
COVID-19 is not the first – nor likely the last – to emerge from the two continents.
Insects are essential to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems but species populations are being lost at a rapid rate globally.
Village Forests under the Social forestry Scheme can not only reduce poverty but also deforestation, study finds.
Researchers found that palm oil plantations up to five years old were more harmful to the climate than already established ones.
Building connections and grassroots efforts will sustain conservation over the long term.
New research shows that slowing deforestation is the most essential step for saving Madagascar's lemurs, and can help protect them against the longer-term threat of climate change.
About 24,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest have been deforested over the last decade.
Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
Politicians and the media often stoke tensions between the city and the country. Nowhere is this more common than on the issue of land clearing – and the consequences can be tragic.
Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this 'superfood' save Paraguay's tropical forests, too?
The cleared land of Paraguay's Chaco forest produces everyday products like charcoal and leather that are sold abroad to consumers who may never know the unsavory origins of their purchases.
California's new plan to fight global climate change is innovative. But it raises tricky ethical questions with no easy answers.
Himalayan villages are growing food in the forests, a traditional model that can fight both land clearing and world hunger.
There are studies showing that farmers can have economic benefits from palm oil. However, they can also be impoverished by the commodity.
Humans have never known a world without the Araucaria. But rising temperatures and changing rainfall mean that the extinction of these majestic trees may be just a generation or two away.
Rainforest fires heat the planet, but the degraded forest left behind has far more consequences for the local environment.
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.
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor, University of Melbourne
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Researcher in Ecology, Federal University of Pará
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Master of University House and Professor of Forestry, Australian National University
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Director of Food Innovation, University of Adelaide
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Bob Pressey adalah Sahabat The Conversation.
Professor and Program Leader, Conservation Planning, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor in ecology and environment, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland
