Climate change to kill off many of Australia’s cloud forest species
One degree of warming would drastically reduce the habitat of nearly all of the region's endemic vertebrates, according to a recent study.
Articles by Jeremy Hance
Jeremy Hance is a senior correspondent for Mongabay as well as being a blogger for the Guardian and a freelance journalist. He started his journalism career with Mongabay in 2009 and served as an editor on the site for six years. He's the author of "Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac," and in 2010, Mongabay published a book of his articles entitled "Life is Good: Conservation in an Age of Mass Extinction." He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife, his daughter, his miniature schnauzer and lots and lots of books.
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- Global coral beaching now underway looks set to be largest on record
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Amazon Conservation
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- Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground
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Endangered Environmentalists
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Indonesia's Forest Guardians
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Conservation Effectiveness
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- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
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- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
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