As Malaysia prepares to convert around 7,000 hectares of forest into an oil-palm plantation, ecologists are starting one of the biggest environmental...
Monday, October 20th, 2008 - 12:07:47 - Ehud Rattner
Supporting the rights of the world's forest-dwelling peoples has long been seen as an essential part of reducing deforestation. Yet policymakers have...
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 - 19:58:27 - Ehud Rattner
Old forests continue to accumulate carbon at a much greater rate than researchers had previously thought, making them more important as carbon sinks...
To the list of threats to tropical rain forests you can add a new one — trees. It might seem that for a rain forest the more trees the merrier, but a...
