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

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

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

Australia’s rainforest species gain ground through landscape linkages

Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study

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

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

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

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

Platform presents unpublished data on Brazilian biodiversity

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

Coastal Indonesian village adapts to life amid rising tidal floodwaters

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

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

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

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

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

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

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

Monitoring tropical deforestation is now free and easy

Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees

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

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

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

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

500 years of species loss: Humans drive defaunation across Neotropics

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

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

Study finds massive reorganization of life across Earth’s ecosystems

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

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

The Great Insect Dying: How to save insects and ourselves

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