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Apr 30, 2021 Metro photo Today is Arbor Day, a day when trees are traditionally planted across the United States, but there’s more to growing trees than planting them. Editor’s note: The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Today’s piece is by Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Pedro Brancalion, Universidade de Sao Paulo. (THE CONVERSATION) For 149 years, Americans have marked Arbor Day on the last Friday in April by planting trees. Now business leaders, politicians, YouTubers and celebrities...

The Maya Forest is the second-largest continuous rainforest in Latin America after the Amazon. And like so many other tropical forests around the world, it’s disappearing. Since 2000, the forest has shrunk by 15%. The good news is that there’s still a lot of forest left: the Maya Forest spans 35 million hectares of land sprawling across Belize, Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico. However, the size of the forest also makes it difficult for any one government agency or NGO to protect. It’s hard to overstate how important forests are. They’re a critical part of mitigating climate change,...

April 21st, 2021, by Jan Rocha Biden versus Bolsonaro: Brazil’s deforestation has set it at odds with the US. Image: By Jami Dwyer (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons President Biden’s climate summit, starting tomorrow, will see him aiming to bring Brazil’s leader Jair Bolsonaro into line. SÃO PAULO, 21 April, 2021 − Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, is a climate change denier. What the US is demanding from him at Joe Biden’s climate summit, being held on April 22 and 23 with 40 world leaders invited, is a clear strategy to reduce Amazon deforestation th...

An online platform that provides near-real-time data and tools for monitoring forests. Global Forest Watch utilizes cutting edge satellite and remote sensing technology to show near real-time data on tree cover loss.

Apr 15, 2021 Caqueta, Colombia – The dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia’s tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country’s most deforested regions, illegal and informal roads fan out in an ever-expanding network, bringing visitors, commercial interests and farmers and ranchers who clear and burn the land. The result is the steady decay of Colombia’s Amazon. A Reuters map of the region shows a lattice of lines that crisscross one another and creep sou...