Topic - Forests, page 8

A Callery pear tree on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Interview

How Listening to Trees Can Help Reveal Nature’s Connections

By Diane Toomey

E360 Video Contest Winners

On Our Lands: Indigenous Bolivians Take Control Of Their Forests

E360 Video Contest Winner

Island in the Fires: A Forest Sanctuary for Orangutans Hangs On

For Japan’s Eagles, Hope Lies in ‘Rewilding’ Long-Tamed Forests

By Winifred Bird

Receding forest on a mountainside in West Kalimantan province in Borneo.

Field Notes

Vanishing Borneo: Saving One of the World’s Last Great Places

By Alex Shoumatoff

A winery in California's Napa Valley, where about 500 acres are being converted annually into vineyards.

In Napa Valley, Vineyards and Conservationists Battle for the Hills

By Alastair Bland

An area of recently cut Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil.

Analysis

Business as Usual: A Resurgence of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

By Philip Fearnside

Ecologist Stefan Schnitzer with a liana, a type of woody jungle vine, on Panama's Barro Colorado Island.

Field Notes

The Strange Case of the Liana Vine and Its Role in Global Warming

By Daniel Grossman

Helping China Rethink Its Approach to Conservation

By Diane Toomey

Supporters of Bill Kayong outside the court at the trial of three men charged in his murder.

Murder in Malaysia

How Protecting Native Forests Cost a Southeast Asian Activist His Life

By Fred Pearce

Seeds of Commerce: Saving Native Plants in the Heart of Appalachia

By Nancy Averett

Giant sequoias in Sequoia National Park.

In the Sierras, New Approaches to Protecting Forests Under Stress

By Janet Marinelli

Forests cleared for oil palm plantations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Solutions

How Tracking Product Sources May Help Save World’s Forests

By Fred Pearce

Living World

Are Trees Sentient Beings? Certainly, Says German Forester

By Richard Schiffman

Ecologist David Kaplan surveys dying coastal trees in the Withlacoochee Gulf Preserve in Yankeetown, Florida.

Ghost Forests

How Rising Seas Are Killing Southern U.S. Woodlands

By Roger Drouin

Video Contest Winner - Runner Up

An Amazon Tribe’s Deadly Fight To Save Its Land From Logging

By Adam Spencer

Video Contest Winner - Runner Up

Chocolate in the Jungle: The Battle To Save a Disappearing Rainforest

By Denise Dragiewicz

Trouble in Paradise: A Blight Threatens Key Hawaiian Tree

The 'ōhi'a is Hawaii’s iconic tree, a keystone species that maintains healthy watersheds and provides habitat for numerous endangered birds. But a virulent fungal disease, possibly related to a warmer, drier climate, is now felling the island’s cherished 'ōhi'a forests.

By Richard Schiffman

An area of forest in Indonesia that was cleared to make way for an oil palm plantation.

Deforestation

How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease

By Jim Robbins

Will Indonesian Fires Spark Reform of Rogue Forest Sector?

Massive fires in Indonesia caused by the burning of forests and peatlands for agriculture have shrouded large areas of Southeast Asia in smoke this fall. But analysts say international anger over the fires could finally lead to a reduction in Indonesia’s runaway deforestation.

By Lisa Palmer

The High Environmental Cost Of Illicit Marijuana Cultivation

Marijuana growers are ravaging forests in northern California to produce their lucrative crop. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, biologist Mary Power talks about the massive ecological footprint of marijuana growing and why nationwide legalization could help alleviate it.

By Diane Toomey