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Environmental science and conservation news. Large-scale monoculture plantations have devastated tropical forests worldwide, but a recent study finds that creating islands of native trees can be a ...
Studies link stronger dengue outbreak in Bangladesh to climate …
17 hours ago · In 2023, Bangladesh recorded 1,705 dengue-related deaths, the highest annual toll to date. This contrasts sharply with 281 deaths reported in 2022 and 179 in 2019. A typical consequence of climate ...
Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay
Feb 22, 2024 · Image courtesy of Marizilda Cruppe/RAS. Technically defined as an enormous fire burning more than 100 square kilometers (38 square miles) of forest that occurs at the same time, in the same region ...
A father and son duo fight invasive lionfish on a Honduran reef
4 days ago · To protect Tela’s embattled coral reef, Motiño and his father, Mario Motiño Sr., both industrial engineers, are mounting a single-minded lionfish hunting effort to limit the fishes’ spread ...
COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save …
Oct 30, 2024 · TFFF, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, is designed to be “a fund unlike any other.”. The fund’s innovative design is structured to deliver $4 billion year-after-year to tropical nations ...
A Ramsar site in Bangladesh fast loses its fish diversity amid ...
4 days ago · Born and raised in the locality of one of Bangladesh’s Ramsar site Tanguar Haor, 58-year-old farmer Bazlur Rahman says he feels proud to belong to the scenic swamp.A wetland that the country’s ...
Action against forest biomass subsidies gains momentum at COP16
Oct 29, 2024 · The forestry industry, of which forest biomass is a small part, receives a collective $155 billion in “ perverse subsidies,” as they are called at COP16. Lahiri sees both paragraph 14 and ...
‘Extinct’ Guam kingfisher takes flight again after nearly 40 years
Sep 25, 2024 · Six Guam kingfishers, known locally as sihek, were released into the wild on Sept. 23, marking their return from nearly four decades of being extinct in the wild. Sihek became extinct in the wild ...
Here’s how to reform multilateral funding to get more money …
Oct 23, 2024 · Solution: Provide flexible, and responsive funding wherever possible. This can involve flexibility in a disbursement window and enable greater community autonomy, which can multiply the benefits ...
Carbon credit land grab dispossesses Global South communities: …
Sep 26, 2024 · Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new ...