Why EU might delay a law to slow deforestation DW 11/13/2024
The EU Deforestation Regulation is crucial for combating global deforestation, yet its rollout faces potential delays that could exacerbate forest loss.
An Elegant' Idea Could Pay Billions to Protect Trees
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility aims to incentivize forest preservation financially, addressing deforestation more effectively.
Why EU might delay a law to slow deforestation DW 11/13/2024
The EU Deforestation Regulation is crucial for combating global deforestation, yet its rollout faces potential delays that could exacerbate forest loss.
An Elegant' Idea Could Pay Billions to Protect Trees
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility aims to incentivize forest preservation financially, addressing deforestation more effectively.
Global efforts to address climate change require systemic adaptations across industries, including renewable energy, deforestation prevention, and financial market innovations.
This 'scuba diving' lizard has a self-made air supply
A small lizard in Costa Rica uses an air bubble to breathe underwater, showcasing an extraordinary adaptation.
Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests - Nature
Approximately 25 million km of new roads expected by mid-century, posing environmental and societal challenges.
Ghost roads, not included in major road datasets, threaten tropical forests and wildlife, constructed illicitly by various groups.
Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities - Nature
The latitudinal gradient in tree species diversity is significant, particularly in tropical moist forests due to specialized enemies creating a stabilizing mechanism through negative density dependence.
Conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) mediated by specialized enemies is a key hypothesis for explaining the maintenance of greater local tree species diversity in tropical forests.
Pattern found in world's rainforests where 2% of species make up 50% of trees
Just 2% of rainforest tree species account for 50% of the trees found in tropical forests across Africa, the Amazon and south-east Asia.
Understanding the commonest tree species in tropical rainforests can help predict how the entire forest will respond to environmental changes.
Brazil proposes global forest fund at Dubai climate talks DW 12/01/2023
Brazil proposed a new global fund called the 'Tropical Forests Forever' fund to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests
The fund would assess forests based on their area and pay residents and landowners who help preserve forested areas