🇮🇩 Indonesia
Sumatran orangutan population drops 20% even as forest loss slows
The Sumatran orangutan population fell by nearly 20 percent between 2000 and 2015, even though the rate of for
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🇲🇽 Mexico
Mexico's avocado heartland faces a hidden crisis in drying soil
The soil beneath Mexico's avocado empire is drying out faster than anyone expected, and a new study warns that
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Small farms, not big projects, are the top threat to Tapanuli orangutans
The most immediate danger to the world's rarest great ape is not a giant dam or a massive mine. It is the quie
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Cutting vines helps Borneo's logged forests regrow faster
A simple act of cutting vines with a machete can help logged forests in Malaysian Borneo grow back faster. Res
🇧🇷 Brazil
Brazil's flying rivers depend on small patches of Amazon forest
A single tree in the Amazon can release more than 1,000 liters of water vapor into the air each day. That mois
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Mangroves Can Recover from Deforestation, Global Study Finds
Mangroves, the tangled coastal forests that store more carbon than tropical rainforests, can recover from defo
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Landslides killed 58 Tapanuli orangutans in Indonesia, study says
A single season of landslides in Indonesia may have killed nearly 60 of the world's rarest great apes. A new s
🇧🇷 Brazil
Gold Mining in the Amazon Wipes Out Dung Beetle Populations
Gold mining in the Amazon does more than scar the landscape. It also wipes out the insects that keep the fores
🇺🇸 United States
Scientists link deforestation patterns to future Ebola outbreaks
A growing body of research suggests that the next Ebola outbreak may be forecast not by a patient's fever, but
🇧🇷 Brazil
Amazon frogs vanishing before scientists can name them
The Amazon is losing frog species faster than scientists can find them. In Brazil, researchers estimate that d
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Farming drives most tropical peatland loss in Indonesia, Peru and DRC
Farming, not logging or mining, is now the single biggest reason tropical peatlands are disappearing in Indone
🌍 Ecuador
Climate change could erase most of South America's cloud forests
Up to 80 percent of South America's cloud forests could vanish by the end of this century. That is the stark f
