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New journal maps threats for tropical peatlands

The 2015 El Nino event in Indonesia triggered what some have called “the worst environmental disaster of the 21st century.”

Scientists hope that if the media can help publicize their research on mitigating climate change and balancing livelihoods on degraded peatlands.

A conversation with Ann Jeannette Glauber, Lead Environment Specialist at the World Bank, during the Global Landscapes Forum thematic event Peatlands Matter

Science discussion on “Peatland fires, haze and health” at the Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter in Jakarta.

Abdul Agus Nuraini, Muara Siran community member, speaks during the Forum's plenary session on community perspectives and priorities in peatlands.

Scientists have recently discovered the existence of huge, previously unknown areas of peatland in central Africa and South America.

Tropical peatlands are massive carbon sinks. But what happens when they are depleted of the water that sustains them, or subject to other land-use changes?

The destruction of forest cover on peatlands delivers a blow for carbon emissions with losses from standing biomass and from the drying of peat soils.

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

Today, we have more data about forests than ever before, but we still can’t seem to agree on where, when and why forests are changing around the world.

In Indonesia, getting kids to eat healthy foods is a vital step toward overcoming problems of stunting and child mortality.