Europe’s forests are growing, but tropical areas are losing tree cover at a massive scale due to EU demand for imported products. Here’s how to redress the imbalance.
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Mangroves grow in saltwater along tropical coastlines, but scientists have found them along a river in Mexico’s Yucatan, more than 100 miles from the sea. Climate change explains their shift.
Observations collected since the 1980s in the Amazon, Central Africa and Southeast Asia show we are not giving tropical forests enough time to recover after logging.
Towering trees in African tropical mountain forests are a vital, overlooked carbon store threatened by deforestation.
For one of Earth’s most biodiverse forests, 21,000 years of natural change pale in comparison to modern, man-made climate breakdown.
Palm oil is responsible for widespread deforestation and labor abuses, but it’s also cheap and incredibly useful. That’s why many advocates call for reforming the industry, not replacing it.
Even this radical scenario wouldn’t be as effective as it may first seem.
Scientists in Malaysia monitored a forest for 20 years after deforestation.
But with chimps now endangered, we risk losing their forest-rebuilding abilities.
The coconut – an icon of unspoiled tropical idylls – causes more environmental harm than many people realise.
Mining strips nitrogen from the soil and means the forest struggles to grow back even after mines are abandoned.
A repeat of 2019’s disastrous fire season is possible in 2020, and it would have dire consequences.
Scientists behind a major new study explain how they discovered these forests are becoming less able to sequester carbon.
Trees in tropical forests are more than carbon sponges – they’re cultural artefacts.
Researchers found that palm oil plantations up to five years old were more harmful to the climate than already established ones.
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.
Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
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.
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Professor of Conservation Science, Bangor University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds and, UCL
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Emeritus Professor of Biotechnology, University of South Wales
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Honorary fellow, University of York
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Research scientist working on savanna and forest distribution, Université de Montréal
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Head of department of Conservation Biology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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Associate Research Professor, University of Vermont
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