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Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.

Remote sensing is crucial for getting the measure of forest loss. Countries don't need their own satellites but they do need training.

China's profitable rubber industry is a boon for some rural communities, but the environmental costs could be much higher.

Growing forests might be easy but getting developing-country forests onto the carbon market is proving more difficult.

The palm oil industry needs to prove its sustainability and is turning to scientists for ways to minimise harm, reports Richard Stone.

Nepal is using plants and modern engineering to combat the landslides that regularly plague the nation. Badri Paudyal reports.

Leafy forests replanted by communities in Nepal are flying in the face of accepted conservation practice, reports T. V. Padma.

T. V. Padma reports on Bhutan's dilemma: how to reconcile conservation, economic development and happiness in a modern world.

The Mbendjele pygmies can now protect trees from loggers by mapping their positions using a GPS system, reports Michael Hopkin.

Dust storms in China have been increasing, but a project in Bayinhushu shows how to reduce them, reports Dennis Normile.

Indonesia's carbon-storing peatlands are interesting the world's carbon-traders. But that's news to the locals, reports Gillian Murdoch.

Climate change means Nicaragua's Miskito Indians can no longer rely on the weather to survive, reports Annie Kelly.

The popularity of palm oil as a biofuel is a disaster for Indonesia's forests, providing cover for illegal loggers and destroying biodiversity in the region, reports Ian MacKinnon.

Today's maps are sophisticated tools, helping developing countries track everything from drought to disease, reports TV Padma.

Scientists have embarked on an ambitious plan to restore the ecosystems of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest devastated by deforestation, reports Bernice Wuethrich.

Lucy Williamson reports on the problems faced by a project to rehabilitate Indonesia's depleted peatland rainforests.

New climate change models predict a heavy impact from global warming on Brazil's biodiversity, agriculture and health, reports Helen Mendes.

Conservation is seeing a surge in 'quick and dirty' biodiversity surveys with an emphasis on local participation. Thomas Hayden reports from the Amazon.

A Brazilian farming method that is greener and boosts growth is reaching its small farmers and maybe the world, reports Bernardo Esteves.