El Niño
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Living with fire: Why the Pan-Amazon needs prevention, not just suppression
As El Niño intensifies, evidence from Bolivia, Brazil and Peru shows how Indigenous knowledge, community action and integrated fire management…
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Peatland fires in Indonesia can be predicted by new evaluation approach, scientists say
Indonesia’s peatland fires are better explained by a newly developed approach that considers climate-change impacts and helps predict hotspots of…
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Researchers urge multi-level action to tackle climate-to-local pressures on forests
Understanding how tropical forests and coral reefs respond to climate extremes — and how they interact with other stressors —…
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Borneo’s carbon sink
The decimation of Borneo’s forests over the past half century is well known. Every tree lost releases carbon into the…
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Turning cropland into forest
First the land was baked dry, then the torrential rains came – sweeping away homes, crops, forests and human lives.…
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Q&A on fires and haze in Southeast Asia
Editor’s Note: An updated fact file on the fires and haze was published on 30 October 2015. Read it here.…
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New maps reveal more complex picture of Sumatran fires
Extreme episodes of trans-boundary haze in Southeast Asia in 2013 and 2014 — and an anticipated El-Niño-induced drought during the…
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