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Analysis
- 8 Jul 2020
Reflections on landscape challenges and opportunities in Kalomo
Ubiquitous loss of quality in landscape resources
News
- 17 Jun 2020
Kenyan farmers adopt new agroforestry strategies through research in development program
Transforming land and livelihoods
In-depth
- 27 May 2020
The world’s largest desert lake and a disappearing way of life
This is part three in a series of three stories that look at forests, trees and how they are used in East Africa.
Event Coverage
- 13 May 2020
World Agroforestry gene bank germinates a future for healthy ecosystems
Banking on biodiversity
Headlines
- 4 Mar 2019
Baffled scientists, boreal forest wipeout and Norway ditches dirty palm oil
Forests News delves into last week's headlines from around the globe
News
- 10 Aug 2015
The Atlantic Ocean holds the key to western Amazon rainfall
Scientists may have discovered root causes of Amazonian droughts and fires.
News
- 11 May 2015
Best predictor of severe fires in the Western Amazon? Drought
New research uses ocean temperatures to predict drought - and therefore fire conditions.
News
- 10 Feb 2015
As climate change and poor habits parch Central Asia, can policy changes help?
As the Aral Sea dried up, local farmers struggled to adapt.
Analysis
- 29 Jan 2015
The science is clear: Forest loss behind Brazil’s drought
While politicians remain skeptical, the problem will only worsen.
Feature
- 5 Dec 2014
Researchers study future of Kenya’s ‘last big mountain forest’
When the Mau Forest suffers, so do an estimated 6 million Kenyans who depend on it for their water.
Event Coverage
- 18 Sep 2014
Amazon forest could become an ‘impoverished savannah’ under climate change
The stark warning comes from Carlos Nobre, a member of the UN Secretary General's High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
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