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Feb. 11, 2021 A survey of more than 18,000 land parcels spanning 2 million square miles across 63 countries shows that a 'protected area' designation reduces the rate of deforestation but does not ...
June 3, 2022 Could the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use's ambitions be too ambiguous? An international team of researchers looked into this ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometers away to get warmer, suggests a new study. The research suggests that tropical forests play a critical role in cooling the ...
May 9, 2023 A new tool helps show how growing cities can remain carbon ...
May 17, 2021 Humans leave their 'footprints' on the land area all around the globe. These land-use changes play an important role for nutrition, climate, and biodiversity. Scientists have now combined ...
July 13, 2021 Scientists have published a global study on the effectiveness of protected areas in preventing deforestation. The study explored the success of country-level protected areas at reducing forest loss, ...
Oct. 1, 2022 Tropical deforestation causes widespread degradation of biodiversity and carbon stocks. Researchers have now tested the relationship between land tenure and deforestation rates in Brazil. Their ...
Mar. 22, 2022 Using multiple high-resolution satellite datasets, researchers found that tropical carbon loss has doubled over the past two decades due to excessive forest removal in the tropics. The tropics are an ...
Oct. 26, 2022 Over the last two centuries, human actions have resulted in rising temperatures, a massive carbon imbalance, and tremendous biodiversity loss. However, there are cases in which human stewardship ...
Aug. 19, 2021 New research shows how deforestation and population growth have greatly impacted landslide risk in the Kivu Rift. This is what researchers established from an analysis of six decades of forest cover ...