Papua’s Special Autonomy Needs a Bottom-Up Governance Overhaul, Study Argues
A new study argues that Papua's stalled development under Special Autonomy requires institutional transformation through a bottom-up, cross-provincial governance agency ...
Tag: deforestation
Subsistence Mining and Deforestation Top the List of Threats to a Colombian River Basin
A DPSIR-based assessment of the Combeima river basin in Colombia scored sixteen ecological threats, finding subsistence mining and deforestation pose ...
Borneo’s Forest Frontier Faces a $74 Billion Carbon Bill by 2050
A modeling study of Kapuas Hulu Regency in Indonesian Borneo projects that an extractive land-use pathway would impose USD 74.3 ...
Fires and drought push Amazon carbon balance to 0.32 PgC per year
A 15-year analysis of aircraft measurements shows the Amazon emitted an average of 0.32 petagrams of carbon per year, with ...
Tanzania’s Charcoal Transition Requires More Than Clean Technology
A peer-reviewed briefing identifies affordability, cultural resistance, institutional support and deforestation as interconnected challenges in Tanzania’s transition from charcoal to ...
Clean Energy Finance, Deforestation and Disaster Risk Show Asymmetric Links in Pakistan
A study of quarterly Pakistani data from 2001 to 2024 finds nonlinear, asymmetric relationships between clean energy finance, human capital ...
Brazil’s presidents steered three decades of forest loss, satellite maps reveal
A University of Cambridge-led satellite analysis of three decades and seven presidencies finds that Brazilian election outcomes were directly linked ...
Research report: Forest loss and greenhouse gas emissions associated with charcoal production and supply to Bonga town in the Kafa Biosphere Reserve southwestern Ethiopia
A 2020 field study estimated that Bonga Town’s charcoal supply involved 27,244 tonnes of dry wood, the felling of 355,354 ...
Spiny Lizards of Central Mexico Are Running Out of Room to Live, Landmark Study Warns
A new study integrating ecological niche modelling, fragmentation metrics and land-use analysis reveals that 17 spiny lizard species in Mexico's ...
Back From the Brink: Critically Endangered Bolivian Killifish Rediscovered After 20 Years
A Critically Endangered Bolivian annual killifish feared extinct for more than 20 years has been rediscovered in a temporary pond, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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