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Indigenous-wildlife ranger collaboration conserves rare Australian rainforests

Nick Rodway 18 Nov 2019

‘Timebomb’: Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra

Michael Standaert 15 Nov 2019

Deforestation preceded fires in ‘massive’ area of Amazon in 2019

John Cannon 14 Nov 2019

Fires and greenhouse gases fuel drying of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2019

‘Witnessing extinction in the flames’ as the Amazon burns for agribusiness

Ana Ionova 10 Oct 2019

New app tracks down forest fires in Bolivia

John Cannon 30 Sep 2019
Jaguar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Panthera: At least 500 jaguars lost their lives or habitat in Amazon fires

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Sep 2019

Indigenous communities, wildlife under threat as farms invade Nicaraguan reserve

Taran Volckhausen 17 Sep 2019

Mexican officials battle a tide of fire eating away at a protected reserve

Max Radwin 16 Sep 2019

Indonesian minister draws fire for denial of transboundary haze problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2019
CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

DiCaprio joins $5M effort to combat Amazon fires

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 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)

Greenpeace releases dramatic photos of Amazon fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2019
CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

How many fires are burning in the Amazon?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2019
Fire burning in an area of recent forest clearing in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Courtesy of Planet Labs Inc.

Satellite images from Planet reveal devastating Amazon fires in near real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2019

Forest loss threatens territorial gibbons in southern Borneo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2019

Forest soils take longer to recover from fires and logging than previously thought

Mike Gaworecki 22 Feb 2019

Research links specific 2017 extreme weather events to climate change

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2019

Absent for decades, zebras reintroduced to park in southern Tanzania

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

Indonesian government appeals ruling on tighter peat fire regulations

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2018

Grasslands may trump forests at carbon storage in a warming world

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jul 2018
Five years after the Rim Fire, abundant natural tree regeneration in the high-severity patches is contributing to carbon sequestration. Photo by Doug Bevington.

Backfire: How misinformation about wildfire harms climate activism (commentary)

Douglas Bevington 10 Jul 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

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

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

For Australia’s fire-starting falcons, pyromania serves up the prey

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2018

Study on economic loss from Indonesia’s peat policies criticized

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2018

Indigenous forests could be a key to averting climate catastrophe

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Nov 2017

Catastrophic fires sweep through iconic Brazilian national park

Anna Sophie Gross 2 Nov 2017

First real test for Jokowi on haze as annual fires return to Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2017

Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

‘Out of control’ wildfires damage protected areas in northern Peru

Benji Jones 17 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

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