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A therapist shares advice for harnessing your stress over climate change and other environmental harms and putting it to work.
REDD+ is a UN program to fight deforestation. But, have local and indigenous communities received their equitable benefits?
The UN ‘30 by 30’ biodiversity strategy aims to set aside 30% of land as protected areas. New research shows these areas do support biodiversity, but big parks also increase it outside their borders.
Plantations of exotic trees from the mid-19th century onwards devastated Indian ecosystems.
Forest fragmentation is causing the deepest and darkest parts of the world’s forests to shrink.
A realistic look at forest management on the Nitassinan of Pessamit, based on data from the Québec government’s forest inventories.
Too much red meat – and especially processed meat – is linked to cancer and heart disease. But moderation is the key – alongside better farming practices
Côte d’Ivoire’s nanosatellite is the first step towards applications that monitor environmental harm and illegal activities and assist in planning for development.
Only fragments of Britain’s “temperate rainforest” remain – here’s some tips to help you identify one when you come across it.
Timber parks, where the paperwork for loads of timber is inspected, can help stem the financial losses from illegal exports.
Deforestation rates are lower in tiger reserves.
The remoteness and small size of old-growth boreal trees should not make us forget their high ecological importance and the many threats they face.
By generating new high-resolution maps, researchers found cocoa plantations were causing far worse forest destruction in West Africa than previously thought.
We know industrial farming needs to change. But regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs.
It’s quite common to see whole Indigenous families on bikes – including pets and tiny children.
Typically, humanitarian concerns are prioritised following a war. But the environment must also get attention so that societies can produce food and goods to rebuild their lives.
Calling the Amazon “the lungs of the world” overlooks the forest’s vital role in the water cycle.
Zambia has progressively incorporated green-based policy interventions since the 1960s.
How to reforest the Emerald Isle without simply turning it into a conifer plantation.
Top contributors
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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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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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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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CGIAR System Organization
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Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Researcher in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
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Senior Research Associate in Tropical Forest Ecology, University of Oxford
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Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, Concordia University
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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 Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
