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Understanding the status of tropical insects in a changing world
A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
A New Satellite Will Map the Carbon Content of Rainforests From Space, and It’s Set to Launch This Month
The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...
Mongabay News on MSN6d
How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share
About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...
Chowhound on MSN2d
Where Can You Still Find Rainforest Cafes In The US?
Rainforest Cafe was a rare and exciting treat for many of us as children. But now, there just aren't that many left to visit ...
Rainforest Alliance's Gowland: 'Every cup of coffee should give back more than it takes'
Companies and major NGOs have been strangely loath to go public about how their climate and nature programmes have been affected by President Donald Trump’s evisceration of USAID and climate funding.
Escape room experience opens in a tropical zoo
A tropical zoo is inviting all-comers to come and take on a challenge "bringing conservation to life". Plantasia, located in ...
Irish Examiner on MSN9d
Fears over world’s largest deforestation project in Indonesia
The government proposal seeks to clear forests for in order to produce bioethanol from sugarcane and food crops.
World's largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia
Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive ...