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IUCN’s GFCCP has launched a call for abstracts on “Achieving deforestation-free commitments through forest landscape restoration.”

Mangroves   are among the world’s most productive ecosystems and, have an impressive capacity to sequester and store carbon at high rates.

The world’s nations met at Marrakesh in 2016 to map out implementation of the Paris Agreement. The implications for Southeast Asia’s forests were discussed.

Application-focused book with the findings of international research on sustainable land management presented at the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Peter Holmgren of CIFOR says: if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and meet our climate targets, we have to find a new way of doing things

While the importance of carbon stored by forests is widely recognized, carbon stored by trees on agricultural land has been much ignored.

Greenland acted as one of Earth’s biggest air conditioners. Since rising temperatures turned Greenland grey, dark snow attracts heat rather than repels it.

“Tenure-secure” indigenous lands generate billions of dollars’ worth of benefits in the form of carbon sequestration, reduced pollution, and clean water.

An online, interactive map, the Global Wetlands Map, was launched last month that invites researchers and other experts to help map the world’s wetlands.

In 2013, Matthew Hansen and his colleagues used satellite data to produce the first global, high-resolution maps of where trees are growing and disappearing

The Congo Basin rainforest is one of the most important forests in the world boasting some 10,000 animal species and more than 600 species of trees.

The Paris Agreement has now been ratified by the largest emitters, China and the United States, as well as one of the largest forest emitters, Brazil.

Land used for palm oil production could be nearly doubled without expanding into protected or high-biodiversity forests, according to a new study.

Climate change is one of the most powerful forces affecting agricultural landscapes today and will only be more so in the future.

While tropical forests continued to decline, a remarkable change is happening: tree cover on agricultural land has increased across the globe.