Eco-Business

Recovering forests can offset around a quarter of the emissions generated from deforestation in humid tropical regions, according to a new study.

As theories circulate that climate change could benefit some farmers, one in China’s Northwest faces harsher realities.

Indonesia’s plan to build its new capital city on an expiring logging concession in eastern Borneo has sparked concerns among environmental and human rights observers about the larger eco-social impacts to the rest of the island.

In the wake of last year’s floods, when stores of wood were lost and gas supplies damaged, people across Pakistan have turned to forests for fuel.

By Isabella Kaminski

Thomson Reuters Foundation

By Hans Nicholas Jong

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Members of Indonesia's Conservation Response Unit working alongside endangered elephants in the Genung Leuser National Park

Strong legislation backed by science and technology could help protect Indonesia’s wildlife. By Noviar Andayani

Indigenous communities in Sarawak have been monitoring their forests for the past year, gathering data to counter a logging company's assumptions about the value of their traditional lands. By Fiona McAlpine

As indigenous communities in Sarawak deal with the second flooding of the year, they also face legal harassment by timber giant Samling in an unprecedented move that seems designed to silence criticism. By Fiona McAlpine

Forests cleared along Oregon’s Coast Range in the US

Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilise Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees. By Beverly Law and William Moomaw

By Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

By Jonathan Jennings and Kinari Webb

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