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Mengwe Carvers Market

Using innovation to assist Tanzania's craft firms

Tanzanian government funding aims to help weavers, wood carvers and furniture makers profit from science, says George Achia.

18 April 2013 | EN

Guide and glossary to CBD

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has spawned a series of agreements and technical phrases.

10 October 2012 | EN | ES

Synthetic biology researcher

Developing countries face up to synthetic biology challenges

As commercial synthetic biology production gathers speed, there are growing calls for greater regulation, reports Yojana Sharma.

27 April 2012 | EN | ES

African farmers

Enriching African soils key to boosting crop yields

The key to tackling hunger in Africa is enriching its soil, according to a story in Nature. The big debate is how to do it.

Source: Nature

10 April 2012 | EN

Rainforest canopy

Biodiversity: Facts and figures

Laura Hood summarises the latest data on the world's biodiversity, with facts and figures on its value and efforts to conserve it.

8 October 2010 | EN | ES

Reducing forest emissions: Facts and figures

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

8 July 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

An eye in the sky watching forests disappear

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

8 July 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Chinese rubber rush leads to 'ecological credit crunch'

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

Source: Nature

22 January 2009 | EN | 中文

Growing money on trees?

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

Source: Nature

13 January 2009 | EN | 中文

A palm oil plantation and oil mill in Malaysia

Palm oil tries to show its sustainable side

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

Source: Science

20 September 2007 | EN | 中文

Landscape and road, Nepal

Landslide victory: Bioengineering in Nepal

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

16 August 2007 | EN

Commuity forestry aims to mix pine with more broad leaf plants

Community forestry: the regreening of the Himalayas

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

16 August 2007 | EN

Bhutan is becoming increasingly urbanised

Bhutan's balancing act: Happiness vs. development

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

16 August 2007 | EN | 中文

Pygmy houses in northern Republic of Congo

Congolese pygmies use GPS to save trees

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

Source: Nature

27 July 2007 | EN

A car caught in a dust storm in Beijing

Getting to the root of killer dust storms

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

Source: Science

24 July 2007 | EN | 中文

Indonesia's Gunung Palung National Park houses peatlands

Indonesia's peatlands: A golden carbon ticket?

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

Source: Reuters

5 July 2007 | EN | 中文

Miskito Indians live in the Nicaraguan rainforest

'Frontline' Nicaraguans hit hard by climate change

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

Source: The Guardian

30 May 2007 | EN | ES

Palm oil monocultures are unable to support biodiversity, say conservationists

The bad side of biofuel: palm oil in Indonesia

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.

Source: Guardian

5 April 2007 | EN | 中文

Deforestation has altered the water cycle in Brazil

Seeds of change: rebuilding a Brazilian rainforest

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

Source: Science

23 February 2007 | EN

A logging road in Kalimantan, Indonesia

How to rehydrate a peatland rainforest

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

Source: BBC Online

14 February 2007 | EN | 中文