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A perfect storm: Fire, haze and a global health crisis
Southeast Asian nations are preparing for the possibility of an environmental emergency, exacerbated by the health crisis brought on by…
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Miombo woodlands: ‘Forgotten’ southern African dryland forests
This story was originally published on Landscape News. When Paula Whyte, a technical advisor for Tanzania-based non-governmental organization Mpingo Conservation…
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Are REDD+ donors learning quickly and deeply enough to make a difference?
To address urgent, complex and intertwined problems like climate change, deforestation and global inequality policymakers need to learn from various…
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CIFOR at COP 25: A simple idea, REDD+ meets a complex reality
See events CIFOR and ICRAF are hosting at COP 25 here. A key idea of REDD+ was to pay those…
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Getting real about restoring the Earth at GLF New York
Autumn Peltier has taken the weight of the world’s water on her shoulders. As Chief Water Commissioner for the Anishnawbek…
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The Papua Atlas: New tool tracks development on remote island, as-it-happens
The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, has often been seen as…
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New tool shows decline in oil-palm related deforestation in Borneo
In a welcome “good news” story for the world’s carbon stocks and biodiversity, the felling of old-growth forest for oil…
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From the frontlines: Fighting Bolivia’s forest fires
When firefighter Daniela Azero and her team first saw the extent of the uncontrolled forest fires in eastern Bolivia near…
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What should we make of the fires in the Amazon and Indonesia?
In the past week, images of fires flattening forests and smoke shrouding cities have dominated news feeds and pulled on…
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Use it, don’t lose it!
“Food in the Anthropocene represents one of the greatest health and environmental challenges of the 21st century,” begins the EAT-Lancet…
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