Claire Asher

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Claire has been working as a freelance science writer for over 6 years and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, BBC Future, Nature, Science, and The Scientist, among others. Her main interests are in ecology, conservation, animal behaviour and evolution, and she has written extensively for Mongabay about deforestation and land-use change in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado.

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Amazon trees may absorb far less carbon than previously thought: study

Claire Asher 21 Nov 2019

Camera trap study reveals Amazon ocelot’s survival strategies

Claire Asher 10 Sep 2019
Planet satellite image showing a mosaic of deforestation and rainforest in São Judas Tadeu, Xapuri in the state of Acre, Brazil in August 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

Amazon REDD+ scheme side-steps land rights to reward small forest producers

Claire Asher 3 Jul 2019

Shade or sun? Forest structure affects tree responses to Amazon drought

Claire Asher 17 Apr 2019

Brazil soy trade linked to widespread deforestation, carbon emissions

Claire Asher 3 Apr 2019

Brazil’s New Forest Code puts vast areas of protected Amazon forest at risk

Claire Asher 4 Mar 2019

Adapt to a changing Amazon now, or pay far higher price later, experts say

Claire Asher 25 Dec 2018

Amazon forests not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change: study

Claire Asher 19 Dec 2018

Extreme floods on the rise in the Amazon: study

Claire Asher 5 Dec 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

Saving the Amazon has come at the cost of Cerrado deforestation: study

Claire Asher 15 Nov 2018

Deforestation-linked Brazilian beef still flowing into international markets: report

Claire Asher 6 Nov 2018
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A river runs through it — and keeps the Amazon’s bird species diverse

Claire Asher 24 Aug 2018

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

Plant response to rising CO2 levels may alter rainfall patterns across tropics

Claire Asher 28 Jun 2018

Hunting, fishing causing dramatic decline in Amazon river dolphins

Claire Asher 13 Jun 2018

Brazil’s actual forest-related CO2 emissions could blow by Paris pledge

Claire Asher 19 Apr 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Natural World Heritage Sites in trouble, especially in the Tropics

Claire Asher 11 Jan 2018

Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study

Claire Asher 22 Dec 2017

Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

Zero tolerance of deforestation likely only way to save Amazon gateway

Claire Asher 7 Sep 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

A dam shame: the plight of the Mekong giant catfish

Claire Asher 30 Nov 2016

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Claire Asher 1 Aug 2016

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Claire Asher 21 Jul 2016

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