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How Scientists And Indigenous Groups Can Team Up to Protect Forests and Climate
A collaboration between Smithsonian researchers and the Emberá people of Panama aims to rewrite a fraught narrative
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Humans Threaten Over 100 Precious Natural Heritage Sites
Forest loss and humans’ footprint are endangering the very sites humans want to preserve
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Meet the Researchers Who Scour the World’s Most Dangerous Corners in Search of Biological Riches
Militants, malaria and pirates are just some of the challenges these scientist-explorers face in their quest to map the world’s diversity
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The Best Way to Protect the World’s Forests? Keep People in Them
Instead of kicking indigenous groups out, let them continue to manage these lands effectively, argues a new report
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Another Weird Facet of America’s Strangest National Park: The Conscience Pile
People mail stolen rocks back to Petrified Forest National Park, but they can’t be returned to their original sites
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Dallas Proposes the Country’s Largest Urban Park
A 10,000-acre Nature District could turn the Trinity River into the city’s centerpiece
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A New Report Says We’re Hunting the World’s Mammals to Death. What Can Be Done?
Solutions are multifaceted and region-specific, but conservation researchers have some ideas
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Madagascar’s Mangroves: The Ultimate Giving Trees
Locals already use the trees for food, fuel and building materials. Now they’re burning them to make lime clay
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This Music Was Composed by Climate Change
Dying forests make magnificently melancholy listening
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How Climate Change Will Transform the National Parks’ Iconic Animals and Plants
Dramatic changes may force park managers to choose which species will live, and which will die
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An Insect Could Make Ash Baseball Bats a Thing of the Past
The invasive emerald ash borer is threatening the forests where Rawlings and Louisville Sluggers come from, putting the bats in jeopardy
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Peru Cracks Down on Illegal Gold Miners
A boom in outlaw mining activity in the last five years is polluting rivers, poisoning people and destroying forests in the Peruvian Amazon
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India Plants a Record 50 Million Trees in 24 Hours
More than 800,000 volunteers planted saplings in public spaces in the state of Uttar Pradesh hoping to reduce greenhouse gases and reforest the countryside
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Unfortunately, Reducing Deforestation Isn’t Enough To Protect Amazon Biodiversity
Logging, wildfires and other human disturbances lead to species die-offs
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New Agreement Will Help Protect the Amazon Basin
Earth’s largest tropical rainforest just got a slew of new allies
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Researchers Discover World’s Tallest Known Tropical Tree in Sabah’s “Lost World”
A 293.6-foot endangered yellow meranti tree on the island of Borneo was discovered by scanning its forests
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‘Sleeping’ Birch Trees Rest Their Branches at Night
Using laser scans of trees in Finland and Austria, researchers tracked interesting arboreal behavior
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What’s the Best Way to Help the Amazon’s Indigenous People?
Can a pioneering computer model save the rainforest’s residents from our best intentions?
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What Does a Dying Forest Sound Like?
As temperatures rise, scientists scramble to pinpoint trees in danger of drought
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Is This the Quietest Square Inch in the U.S.?
An acoustic ecologist reveals his findings
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