Landscapes
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Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blueprint for a healthy planet
Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus COVID-19 and Ebola can emerge due to ecosystem imbalances…
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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ‘empty forests’ when animals disappear
“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all is well.” Kent Redford’s cautionary…
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Characterizing and evaluating integrated landscape initiatives
The pressing environmental and social challenges driven by deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, poverty and food insecurity often intersect in…
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Q+A: Research findings offer framework for effective carbon management
In current conditions, the world’s total carbon budget will be spent in roughly eight years, increasing emissions-related global warming, and…
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No time to waste: Tropical forests become source of global warming
Terry Sunderland, a collaborating author of the Nature article “Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests,” is…
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Recipe for slowing species loss and cutting extinction risk in half
Limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius and conserving 30 percent of terrestrial area could halve the risk of plant,…
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Canadian caribou hunting ban highlights challenges of wildlife management
It could be a hundred years before the number of caribou in the George River Caribou Herd reach levels seen…
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Miss Environment and ‘green champions’ amplify nature-based solutions in Kenya
As International Women’s Day nears on March 8, UN Women is celebrating people who are driving actions to create the…
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New resource hub will offer evidence-based solutions for land restoration
Analyzing the range of variables involved in land management and land restoration management is a daunting task for even the…
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Q+A: Natural climate solutions could reverse emissions in 30 tropical countries, scientists say
Although natural climate solutions offer one of the best climate mitigation opportunities, they are as yet under-represented in national climate…
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So long tumultuous teens: High hopes for forests in the 2020s
Throughout the last decade (2010-2019), tropical deforestation escalated at an alarming rate despite a raft of international commitments, including the…
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Kalomo District diary: Resolving competing claims through integrated landscape approaches
Freddie Siangulube and Malaika Yanou are researchers and Ph.D. candidates with the Collaborating to Operationalize Landscape Approaches for Nature, Development…
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Smallholder farmers in Cameroon benefit from landscape restoration efforts
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH’s Forest and Environment Programme (ProPFE) piloted several community-based reforestation projects across Cameroon’s Far…
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