New report highlights progress on sustainability in sugarcane production
The expansion of cropland for agricultural commodities such as sugar, soy, and palm oil is an important driver of deforestation in the... Read More
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Preventing an Amazon forest dieback
What is the future of the Amazon rainforest? If current trends continue, forest fire during periods of extreme drought combined with deforestation... Read More
How to help Brazilian farmers save the Amazon
When I moved to the Amazon “Wild West” town of Paragominas in northern Brazil in 1984 as a young scientist studying forest... Read More
In many countries, natural climate solutions can be the biggest climate solutions
Natural climate solutions comprise the largest share of all potential solutions to climate change in more than three dozen tropical countries, according... Read More
Tropical forests and climate in 2019: hopes fulfilled, hopes dashed, hopes delayed
Back in January I wrote about my 13 hopes for tropical forests and climate change in 2019. As the year draws to a... Read More