Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Deep in the heart of the forests of Myanmar, a massive trade in illicit charcoal to neighboring China is feeding a multi-million dollar industry that connects the forests and its people to industrial warehouses in China and the products they make for the world.
The bottom line is that if we’re smart and plan carefully, we can still increase food production and human equity across much of the world.
It is possible to produce enough food to feed a growing population without another tree being felled, according to new research. But there’s a catch.
We will continue to plant the trees together with Malawi’s communities, and we have a joint responsibility to see they survive.
A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the felling of tropical forests creates optimal conditions for the spread of mosquito-borne scourges, including malaria and dengue. Primates and other animals are also spreading disease from cleared forests to people.
An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of “core forest”…are vanishing even faster.
It’s getting harder and harder to separate nature’s role in disasters from our own, and the dire water predicament confronting São Paulo, Brazil, is no exception.
Just after Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the ebola outbreak "completely out of control," the government of Sierra Leone ordered its citizens to stay indoors for three days.
It has long been my contention that one of the chief symptoms of the age of constraints we have now entered would be the decline of public health systems globally.
Expanding and strengthening the community forest rights of indigenous groups and rural residents can make a major contribution to sequestering carbon and reducing CO2 emissions from deforestation, according to a new report.
Over the past nine years, the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped by 70 percent.
The forests stretching from Mexico through Central America have some of the richest species diversity on the planet. But despite expansive conservation efforts, this region continues to face staggering rates of forest destruction…there has been much less attention devoted to the environmental impacts from the region’s drug trafficking.
