Why Chop the Amazon Rainforest in Half?
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceAmazon, rainforest, road, BR-319, BR-174, Manaus, Porto Velho, habitat fragmentation, poaching, logging, fires, BR-163, Rio Negro Bridge, William Laurance, Philip Fearnside, land speculation, illegal mining
Brazil's Amazon Sellout Threatens Critical Indigenous Lands
PoliticsBill LauranceBrazil, indigenous groups, Michel Temer, corruption, ruralist, impeachment, Brazilian Congress, protected areas, forest roads, illegal land claims, land-theft, modern-day slavery, fires, illegal logging, illegal mining, G-7 Pilot Program for the Brazilian Amazon, rainfall recycling
New Danger: Invading Poachers Kill With Mega-Fires
ConservationBill Laurancefires, game species, Africa, Zimbabwe, local villages, frontier migration, social conflict, roads, logging, mining, industrial mines, traditional livelihoods, mega-fires, gold miners
Demise of the World's Forest Giants
ConservationBill Laurancebig trees, giant trees, big old trees, forest giants, deforestation, logging, drought, weeds, fires, habitat fragmentation, David Lindenmayer, William Laurance, Mountain Ash, Gamba Grass, Lantana, carbon storage, evapotranspiration, fruit, foliage, nectar, tree cavities
Brazil burning: Drought & legal changes imperil forests
Climate ChangeBill LauranceBrazil, deforestation, Forest Code, Dilma Rousseff, fires, El Nino, drought, Amazon, infrastructure, indigenous lands, Brazilian Congress, zero deforestation, Godzilla, climate change, Paris COP
Africa's Greatest Environmental Challenge -- Ever
ConservationBill LauranceAfrica, Sub-Saharan Africa, development corridors, African Development Bank, mining, agriculture, food security, population growth, Current Biology, roads, railroads, energy infrastructure, power lines, gas lines, colonization, poaching, hunting, deforestation, infrastructure, wildlife, elephant, fires
As Indonesia burns, its government moves to increase forest destruction
RainforestsBill LauranceIndonesia, Malaysia, Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries, Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries, oil palm, deforestation, fires, El Nino, drought, no-deforestation pledges, press release, respiratory distress, haze, air pollution, carbon emissions, peat forest, peatland, Bill Laurance, William Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Lian Pin Koh, Global Forest Watch, Greenpeace
Stealing the Rain from a Rainforest
Martine Marondrought, rainforest, Daintree Drought Experiment, Susan Laurance, James Cook University, Daintree Rainforest Observatory, tree survival, plant physiology, big trees, fires, canopy crane, Godzilla
The Indonesian Inferno: A Completely Preventable Crisis
Bill LauranceIndonesia, fires, haze, smoke, smog, school closures, airport closures, air pollution, carbon emissions, peatlands, peat fires, deforestation, Singapore, Malaysia, New Guinea, Sumatra, Borneo, Micronesia, President Joko Widodo, El Nino, drought, Erik Meijaard, fire ban, Brazil, remote sensing, Global Forest Watch, oil palm, Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries, zero deforestation
Choking on smoke: The growing curse of Indonesia's wildfires
Bill LauranceIndonesia, fires, smoke, smog, air pollution, wildfires, Malaysia, Singapore, Asia Pulp & Paper, deforestation, oil palm, wood pulp, slash-and-burn, corruption, Sinar Mas, Godzilla, El Nino, drought, air quality, school closures, peatlands
The scariest things about climate change are what we don't know
Bill Lauranceclimate change, global warming, environmental impacts, biodiversity, environmental synergisms, William Laurance, scientific uncertainty, global circulation models, precipitation, rainfall, rainforests, Amazon, Borneo, fires, heat waves, high-elevation endemics, cool-adapted species, thermal specialists, climate change deniers, habitat fragmentation, logging
Australia’s ‘Ecological Axis of Evil’ triggers native mammal collapse
Bill Laurancenorthern Australia, mammal declines, quolls, native rodents, bandicoots, smaller vertebrates, overgrazing, fire management, fires, feral animals, feral cats, dingoes, invasive species, livestock grazing, protected areas, species extinction, biodiversity crisis, Australia, Mark Ziembicki
Dramatic erosion of world's last intact forests
Bill LauranceIntact Forest Landscapes, road building, logging, fires, forest conversion, agriculture, Russia, Canada, Brazil, Greenpeace, University of Maryland, Transparent World, World Resources Institute, WWF-Russia, Global Forest Watch
Fire alert: Could 2014 be 'the year from hell'?
Bill Laurancefires, wildfires, ENSO, El Nino, drought, forest fires, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Amazon, Sumatra, Borneo, climatology, respiratory distress, asthma, smoke, smog
Top ecologist: New park only solution to Victoria forest 'disaster'
