Cash Me Outside: Transfers to the Poor Linked to Eco-Benefits
In a new study, researchers recently discovered that Indonesia’s national anti-poverty program reduced deforestation by about 30%.
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Why are we still failing to stop deforestation?
A new study calls for a radically different approach to managing deforestation that focuses on our understanding of how individuals make choices.
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Deforestation Drives Disease, Climate Change and It’s Happening at a Rapid Rate
Deforestation is not an issue dominating headlines in the U.S. right now, but perhaps it should be, according to UC San Diego research. Deforestation has been linked to both the spread of infectious disease and climate change, and what is most alarming, it’s happening at a rapid rate.
Read moreSAS and IIASA call for crowd-driven artificial intelligence to help track deforestation
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, SAS and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis join forces to transform crowdsourced knowledge into actionable intelligence to help protect the planet.
Read moreMore than 60 per cent of Myanmar’s mangroves has been deforested in the last 20 years: NUS study
New research from the National University of Singapore showed that between 1996 and 2016, substantial mangrove forests have been converted to agricultural use in Myanmar.
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Native Americans did not make large-scale changes to environment prior to European contact
Contrary to long-held beliefs, humans did not make major changes to the landscape prior to European colonization, according to new research conducted in New England featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York. These new insights into the past could help to inform how landscapes are managed in the future.
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