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Forests are a solution to climate change. They’re also vulnerable to it

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2020

One-two punch of drought, pandemic hits Madagascar’s poor and its wildlife

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Jun 2020

Conservation insights from an enormous aspen clone: Q&A with ecologist Paul Rogers

James Dinneen 5 Jun 2020

Green alert: How indigenous people are experiencing climate change in the Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 27 May 2020

Soy made the Cerrado a breadbasket; climate change may end that

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 5 May 2020

China held water back from drought-stricken Mekong countries, report says

Michael Tatarski 30 Apr 2020

Extreme El Niño drought, fires contribute to Amazon insect collapse: Study

Taran Volckhausen 13 Mar 2020

Painting with fire: Cerrado land managers learn from traditional peoples

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 3 Mar 2020

Amazon Tipping Point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk: Top scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2020

Severe drought and other climate impacts are driving the platypus towards extinction

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2020
Waura man in Brazil. Photo by Sue Wren.

Indigenous, protected lands in Amazon emit far less carbon than areas outside

John Cannon 28 Jan 2020

Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020
Forest canopy in Volcano on the big island of Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests in 2020: 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

‘The tipping point is here, it is now,’ top Amazon scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 20 Dec 2019

Paris accord ‘impossible to implement’ if tropical forest loss not stopped

Taran Volckhausen 19 Dec 2019

Warming of Indo-Pacific waters disrupting weather worldwide, report finds

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2019

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2019

As climate change disrupts the annual monsoon, India must prepare (Commentary)

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 Sep 2019

Climate adaptation begins with how we manage water (commentary)

Claudia Sadoff 12 Sep 2019
Copernicus / Landsat image of the Amazon River as seen via Google Earth.

A healthy and productive Amazon is the foundation of Brazil’s sovereignty (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2019

Venezuelan crisis: Caring for priceless botanical treasures in a failed state

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Jul 2019

As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes

Saul Elbein 1 Jul 2019

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

Claire Asher 17 Apr 2019

Cloud seeding bears no rain in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 12 Apr 2019

Dust and blood: Climate-induced conflict fuels migration, study finds

Nina Finley 29 Mar 2019

Study identifies climate-resilient trees to help orangutan conservation

Taran Volckhausen 15 Mar 2019

Termites help to protect tropical forests during drought, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2019

Research links specific 2017 extreme weather events to climate change

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

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