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This further incentivizes deforestation. For small landholders ... the ecosystem services provided by rainforests — such as air and water purification, climate stabilization, and biodiversity ...

After Donald Trump's inauguration, his administration began purging environmental security reports from the public record.

“By compensating landholders for the services their forests provide, we recognize their true value and offer a pragmatic response to deforestation ... landholders for growing forests was ...

Meanwhile, in remote villages of Sokoto State, farmers abandoned ancestral lands as advancing desertification rendered once-fertile soils barren, joining the estimated 4,000 environmental migrants ...

For instance, despite their reliance on forests, the need for fuel, grazing livestock and growing more crops to earn an ...

But there is a huge challenge to prevent their degradation and deforestation,” said Rittl ... the forest was already important for maintaining water, biodiversity, and for local communities and ...

We have made great improvements in treating cancer. I have friends, and probably you do as well, who are still alive with cancers that just a few years ago would have quickly killed them. They have ...