Forests News
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Boreal forest fires can be forecast by monitoring warm and dry air masses, study finds
Forests in eastern Siberia and Alaska are prone to widespread fires when warm and dry air masses from lower latitudes…
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New toolbox offers methods to support integrated landscape approaches in multiple contexts
One size does not fit all when implementing integrated landscape approaches (ILAs), so a new toolbox is offering a number…
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Rethink diet-land use connections to prevent future pandemics, scientist says
Terry Sunderland on CBC radio’s “The Current”
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Navigating conflicts in La Cuenca
“El Rio Cravo Sur is born in the Andes at 3,800 meters above sea level,” says Camila Cammaert who leads…
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Making space for women and Indigenous Peoples at the decision-making table
When CIFOR researchers Iliana Monterroso and Kristen Evans began investigating how to improve inclusivity in multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs), they had…
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Circular bioeconomy, what next?
Rocio Diaz-Chavez and Sylvia Kuria share their views on the circular bioeconomy, sharing several examples of countries in the global…
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Reducing haze and protecting peatlands in the digital age
At a recent workshop, 83 key stakeholders gathered with “Measurable Action for Haze-Free Sustainable Land Management in Southeast Asia” (MAHFSA)…
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Crowd-sourced – but from whom? Profiling citizen scientists in a Kenyan water monitoring project
In the Sondu-Miriu river basin in Western Kenya, locals are sometimes seen pulling out their cellphones as they pass water…
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Pongamia: Potential benefits for restoration and bioenergy in Indonesia
Its native stomping-ground stretches across a broad swathe of Asia and the Pacific – from India in the west to…
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Undisturbed forests could cease to exist in large tropical humid regions by 2050, study says
Satellite data show that undisturbed forests will completely disappear in large tropical humid regions by 2050 under current disturbance rates,…
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Cocoa in Ivory Coast to benefit from ‘companion trees’
Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, is moving toward embracing a new “cocoa agroforestry” model,” according to a leading…
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Why almost half the global population lacks clean and sustainable energy for cooking
From stoves to open fires, gas to electric cookers and everything in between: what families cook on — and why…
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Africa’s vast forest potential untapped, circular bioeconomy could help
Africa has enormous potential to derive more value from its forests without producing more wood, and could thus provide a…
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Britain’s Prince Charles says circular economy powered by nature crucial for recovery
The crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic offers a chance to shift from a fossil-fuel based economy to a nature-based…
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