Tag: Deforestation
Mexican communities manage their local forests, generating benefits for humans, trees...
David Bray, Florida International University
The United Nations is preparing to host pivotal conferences in the coming months on...
How would planting 8 billion trees every year for 20 years...
Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz
Curious Kids is a series for children...
Billions of cicadas may be coming soon to trees near you
John Cooley, University of Connecticut and Chris Simon, University of Connecticut
A big event in the insect world is...
Growing food and protecting nature don’t have to conflict – here’s...
Thomas Hertel, Purdue University
Growing food in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way – while also producing enough of it...
Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is...
Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University
Protecting forests is an essential strategy in the fight...
Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic...
Les Kaufman, Boston University
In a recent journal article, a team of biologists, medical scientists, environmental scientists and conservationists proposed a number of measures to...
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
The coronavirus...
Lemurs are the world’s most endangered mammals, but planting trees can...
Andrea L. Baden, Hunter College
Madagascar, the world’s fourth-largest island, is a global biodiversity hotspot.
Andrea BadenThe island of Madagascar off the southeastern coast of Africa...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
