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World Temperature Rise Nears Danger Level - The Good Men Project
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Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing
Deforestation is increasing in forest-rich regions in Indonesia, even as the government claims the national average has gone down, a new report shows.
The NGOs behind the report attribute the decline in the national deforestation rate to the fact that there’s virtually no forest left to clear in parts of Sumatra and Borneo.
Instead, deforestation has moved east, largely to the Papua region, home to nearly two-fifths of Indonesia’s remaining rainforest an area the size of Florida where companies are clearing land for oil palm and pulpwood plantations and mines.
26 February 2021
by: Adam D. Cohen Travis York speaking at a Hope Center for College, Community and Justice meeting prior to joining AAAS. | Courtesy of Travis York Travis York speaking at a Hope Center for College, Community and Justice meeting prior to joining AAAS. | Courtesy of Travis York
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has hired two new program directors to lead its ongoing work promoting international scientific relationships and diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education and the wider STEM community.
Kimberly Montgomery, a science policy expert with more than a decade of experience on Capitol Hill and at international organizations, will serve as AAAS’s director of international affairs and the Center for Science Diplomacy. Travis York will apply his background in higher education administration and policy as the association’s director of Inclusive STEM Ecosystems for Equity and Diversity. Both began their roles in the