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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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Colombia’s bushmeat black market comes to light
The night her husband went hunting and brought home a large tapir, Elsa Vargas* was relieved. After she fed the family,…
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What came before the fire
Governments and corporations operating in Indonesia must understand the complex political economy fueling the recurrent land fires, if further catastrophes…
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10 views on the future of REDD+
It’s been a long and rocky road for the climate change mitigation scheme known as REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from…
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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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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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Don’t inhale: Scientists look at what the Indonesian haze is made of
The fires raging across Indonesia, and the hazardous smoke they create, are causing even greater damage to the environment, wildlife…
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The long road to ‘zero deforestation’ … whatever that means
A year ago today, the New York Declaration on Forests set a daring goal: a world without deforestation. But it…
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Men, women, dry forests and the power of food
When aid groups began encouraging women in the Gambia to plant gardens in the 1980s, the nutritional quality of household…
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WEST AFRICA SPECIAL: In Burkina Faso, small solutions and big returns
PABRE, Burkina Faso—A simple fence that protects against grazing livestock and bush fires is all it’s taken to transform three…
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