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Beyond CO2, tropical forests a ‘cool’ solution to climate crisis, study finds

John Cannon 22 Apr 2022
Tree rings on a dead tree.

Tropical trees’ growth and CO2 intake hit by more extreme dry seasons

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2022

Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy

Caitlin Looby 21 Mar 2022

Australia’s rainforest species gain ground through landscape linkages

Amanda Freeman 24 Dec 2021

Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study

Aimee Gabay 19 Nov 2021

Math campus multiplies threats to Rio de Janeiro’s dwindling Atlantic Forest

Sarah Brown 15 Oct 2021

Human influence on tropics predates Anthropocene, holds clues to current crisis

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Oct 2021

New study shows where to focus efforts to save long-neglected small mammals

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2021

2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Aug 2021

Platform presents unpublished data on Brazilian biodiversity

Ronaldo Ribeiro | Alan Azevedo | Letícia Klein 11 Aug 2021
A buffy-headed marmoset

Meet the kitten-sized, clown-faced monkey that’s leaping toward extinction

Jeremy Hance 10 Aug 2021

Coastal Indonesian village adapts to life amid rising tidal floodwaters

Nuswantoro 5 Aug 2021

Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form

Claire Asher 7 Jun 2021

Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor a ‘missing link’ to giant rainforest reserve (commentary)

Jut Wynne 24 May 2021

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Gloria Dickie 29 Apr 2021

New map shows where the 80% of species we don’t know about may be hiding

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2021

BlackRock must commit to Indigenous rights — not just climate change (commentary)

David Hill 19 Mar 2021

Fruit-eating, seed-pooping animals can help restore degraded forests

Emily Harwitz 9 Feb 2021
rice field by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

6% of Earth’s protected land is used to grow crops, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jan 2021
Deforestation for soy in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Monitoring tropical deforestation is now free and easy

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jan 2021
Rainforest tree with magenta flowers

Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees

Liz Kimbrough 22 Dec 2020

Reforestation projects should include tree diversity targets, too (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 2 Dec 2020

Without planting more trees in the tropics, we can’t fix the climate (commentary)

Edward Mitchard 18 Nov 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

500 years of species loss: Humans drive defaunation across Neotropics

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Sep 2020

Game changer? Antarctic ice melt related to tropical weather shifts: Study

Gloria Dickie 1 Apr 2020

Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study

Gloria Dickie 27 Jan 2020

Study finds massive reorganization of life across Earth’s ecosystems

John Cannon 21 Oct 2019

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2019

Despite a decade of zero-deforestation vows, forest loss continues: Greenpeace

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

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