Indonesia’s Peatland Restoration Agency is likely to have its tenure extended by four years. What has been achieved and what should the agency focus on for the next term?
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Fires that burn the forest burn crops and pastures alike. But farmers in the eastern Amazon are left with few good options.
Villagers of Sumatra and Kalimantan relunctant to participate in peatland restoration, contributing to the recent forest fires in Indonesia.
Indonesia’s forest fires forensics, Bambang Hero Sahardjo, receives a prestigious award, John Maddox prize, opening hope for scientists to use scientific evidence for law enforcement.
Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?
With her climate strike, Greta Thunberg has upended climate politics and posed the key question of who are the real radicals in current discussions.
We have developed an online tool to help authorities identify which areas they should focus on for reducing forest fires and haze in order to maximize overall health benefits.
The government has reportedly set aside 180,000 hectares of land for construction of a new capital in East Kalimantan.
A forest professor tells his experience on the hardships of putting out peat fires in Indonesia
While the world watches the Brazilian Amazon burn, across the border in Bolivia it’s also ablaze.
Don’t blame climate change for the 39,000 forest fires now incinerating huge tracts of the Brazilian Amazon. This environmental catastrophe is human-made and highly political.
The Indonesian government should improve transparency and public access to land-use data, make the ban on new plantations on primary forests permanent, and give communities access to forests.
Increasingly severe losses for insurers due to climate change could result in a global financial crisis.
Detailed fire history information isn’t available for Mount Kenya, satellite information can help fill the gaps.
Donald Trump has threatened to use funds allocated for disaster relief to fund his border wall. It’s time to rethink how we frame disasters to stop politicians from using them for political gain.
Fires and logging changes forest soil structure for at least 30-80+ years, affecting everything from regrowth to carbon storage.
A wealth tax would put a price on past emissions and could be used to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, including vulnerability to climate change.
Forest fires emit twice as much carbon in the Brazilian Amazon as deforestation, according to new research.
A balanced research program should focus on good and rational peat management efforts that minimise environmental impacts, and on water regulation that reduces the risk of fire.
Wildfires are expected to increase in a warming world, but there is another way humans are changing the patterns and intensity of fires: by introducing flammable plants to new environments.
Top contributors
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Professor of Forest Protection, IPB University
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Professeur écologie et aménagement forestier, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Tenured Scientist (IMB-CSIC, Spain) & Honorary Associate Prof. (SU, UK), Swansea University
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney
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Associated Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minho
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PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professeur-chercheur en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University