Climate change & energy
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Coastal blue carbon from planted mangroves holds promise
Mangrove forests might account for only 0.5 percent of coastal areas worldwide, but they punch well above their weight when…
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Rising tides: Will mangroves keep up as sea levels climb?
Although mangroves will be able to withstand moderate sea level rise, the highest projections for the end of this century…
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Hunters, gatherers and all those gender roles
Inside the community center in the village of Roya, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, scientist Dawn Rodríguez-Ward hangs pie charts…
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Waiting to exhale: The politics of fire in Indonesia
Why are there more land fires in Indonesia before an election? Why are oil palm plantations burned also? Why does…
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“We” have a deal
Ursula Rakova is from the Carteret Islands, off the coast of Papua New Guinea. For Rakova and the community of…
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Paris Agreement: Not perfect, but the best we could get
COP21 in Paris delivered a part legally binding, part voluntary deal on climate change that has generated a mass of…
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Three areas to focus on to make REDD+ work
REDD+ might not have figured prominently on the agenda of the official climate negotiations in Paris, but experiences and visions…
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A new course for the Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to 10 percent of the world’s tropical forests. Vast and varied, these…
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REDD+ offers powerful lessons for green growth
Climate-smart economic development doesn’t have to start from scratch. With a decade of experience and a wealth of research to…
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COP21 could revitalize REDD+ … or not
The original vision for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) was ambitious yet simple: create both a supply…
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Work to avoid further fires starts now
The rainy season has begun in Indonesia, dousing most of the fires that have been burning across Sumatra and Kalimantan.…
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Beyond the blaze: What next for Indonesia’s forests?
More than 100,000 fires ravaged the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan throughout September and October 2015, producing a noxious…
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Climate negotiations have never looked like this
As the much-anticipated Paris climate conference draws closer, speculation is heightening over what the Paris Package might look like. In…
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A landscape picture from Cameroon
It’s a daunting challenge whose complexity only continues to intensify: How can we manage the land so that it can…
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Indonesia on fire again … and again?
The fires in Indonesia have been raging for more than two months, creating a toxic haze that has blanketed much…
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