What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Deforestation
Displaying 1 - 20 of 343 articles
Nigeria’s forest resources have dwindled and are in danger of disappearing in a few decades if nothing is done to save them.
Research suggests these forests could disappear by the 2070s.
A recently published report sheds light on how 350 big companies and 150 financial institutions are falling behind with goals to halt and reverse deforestation.
Effective use of genomic identification could revolutionize the control of the illegal timber trade.
Green anacondas are the world’s heaviest snakes, and among the longest. it’s remarkable this hidden species has slipped under the radar until now.
Trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest depend heavily on primates for their survival, but agriculture and deforestation are threatening them both.
The most comprehensive Australian carbon budget assessment completed to date shows the nation flip-flops from source to sink of carbon emissions, depending on the prevailing conditions.
It might seem counterintuitive to suggest timber harvesting when the goal is to restore forests, but that gives landholders the economic incentive to protect and manage forests over time.
When forest communities have secure rights and tenure, the results can be miraculous.
Record emissions are fast shrinking the remaining amount of carbon dioxide we can emit if we are to limit global warming. At current rates, we’ll use up the budget for a 1.5°C outcome in seven years.
Food systems are increasingly disrupted by climate disasters, while also being a major contributor to climate change. World leaders at COP28 vowed to do something about it.
Diminishing forests reduces the capacity of the Amazon and Cerrado to regulate rainfall patterns. That’s bad for communities, but also bad for business and global food security.
Rubber plantations are replacing forests, particularly in tropical regions.
News about the growing ecological crisis may cause people to feel grief and fear. It is understandable to seek relief from these feelings and look for good news. But what if grief is the good news?
Smallholder farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa. Deliberate steps are required to support them and boost agricultural output,
Wars are multiplying – and the damage these conflicts do isn’t just immediate. They leave long-term environmental damage
Environmental degradation and altered landscapes, both due to human action and climate change, increase the incidence of already known diseases and the risk of new zoonoses emerging
New research identifies what needs to be done to stop failing forests.
Getting serious about protecting global biodiversity requires not just policy but a revolution in how we talk about, and with, our planet’s forests.
Top contributors
-
Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
-
Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
-
Professor, The University of Queensland
-
Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
-
Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
-
Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
-
Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
-
Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Manchester Metropolitan University
-
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
-
CGIAR System Organization
-
Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
-
Senior Research Associate in Tropical Forest Ecology, University of Oxford
-
Researcher in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
-
Reader in Conservation Science, University of Kent
