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Sep 13

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Amazon forest guardians fight to prevent catastrophic tipping point

In Brazil's Maranhao State, indigenous groups are battling a powerful logging mafia to protect the region's remaining and fragile Amazon rainforest. After years of decline, deforestation is again on the rise, threatening a terrifying climate change tipping point. Special correspondent…

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Dec 13

Amazonian fish need tropical forests to survive

By Teresa Carey

Fisheries ecologists at Virginia Tech have found a link between tropical forest loss in the Amazon and declines in freshwater fish populations.

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Sep 28

Tropical forests now emit more carbon than they soak up

By Teresa Carey

Due to human destruction, tropical forests, long considered to be "carbon sinks," now produce more carbon emissions each year than all U.S. cars and trucks combined, according to a study published Thursday in Science.

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Sep 08

Where will wild things go once their land is gone?

By Leigh Anne Tiffany

In just two decades, the world has lost about a tenth of its wilderness, according to a new study.

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Aug 26

Can cash incentives reduce deforestation in rural Uganda?

By Making Sen$e Editor

A pilot program, which paid households in 60 villages to refrain from cutting down trees, put a significant dent in the pace of deforestation in the test area.

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Jun 30

Brazil aims to curb deforestation as part of climate pledge

By Josh Lederman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Brazil pledged Tuesday to restore millions of acres of forests and expand renewable energy use, as the United States and Brazil worked to build momentum toward a budding global climate treaty.

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Mar 02

World’s tropical forests vanishing more rapidly than previously thought

By Ariel Min

From the Amazon to the Philippines, world’s tropical forests are vanishing at a much faster rate than previously reported, says a new study of satellite images of 80 percent of the world’s tropical forests.

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Jul 06

Indonesia reaches highest deforestation rate in the world

By Xander Landen

Indonesia has the highest deforestation rate in the world, according to a study published in the journal "Nature Climate Change" in June.

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Dec 16

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Nations Pledge $3.5B to Cut Carbon Emissions, Deforestation

Six nations pledged $3.5 billion to cut carbon emissions and deforestation through a new program called REDD. Jonathon Miller of Independent Television News examines how the United Nations-sponsored plan will work.

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Dec 16

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In Copenhagen, Tensions Rise Inside and Outside Summit

Protesters outside the Copenhagen climate change summit clashed with police on Wednesday as more than 100 world leaders made their way to the Danish capital. Negotiators continue to battle over reaching a climate agreement in the conference's waning days.

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