Limited time and resources remain to constrain the climate crisis. Natural climate solutions
represent promising options to protect, manage and restore natural lands for additional …

If current trends continue, the tropical forests of the Anthropocene will be much smaller,
simpler, steeper and emptier than they are today. They will be more diminished in size and …

A humid tropical forest disturbance alert using Sentinel-1 radar data is presented for the
Congo Basin. Radar satellite signals can penetrate through clouds, allowing Sentinel-1 to …

Advancements in satellite-based forest monitoring increasingly enable the near real-time
detection of small-scale tropical forest disturbances. However, there is an urgent need to …

This study examines the political economy of decarbonization in eight countries over the
period 2000 to 2021/2022 that have already achieved a national net-zero transition. These …

Selective logging causes at least half of the emissions from tropical forest degradation.
Reduced-impact logging for climate (RIL-C) is proposed as a way to maintain timber …

Road development has affected many remote tropical forests around the world and has
accelerated human-induced deforestation, forest degradation and biodiversity loss. The …

In the face of accelerating forest degradation and deforestation, forest certification emerged
in the early 1990s as a voluntary and market-based mechanism to promote environmentally …

Several key international policy frameworks involve forests, including the Paris Agreement
on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). However, rules and …

Tropical forests support two-thirds of the world's biodiversity, contribute to global climate
regulation, and support the culture and livelihoods of forest-dependent people. Much of …