Forests contribute to human well-being by providing a wide variety of ecosystem services to the society. The boreal biome is experiencing rapid changes both with the highest rates of warming on the ...

Dr. Zaiton Samdin is an Associate Professor in the School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and currently a Deputy Director, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products ...

Block plantations like these may look efficient, but research shows that more diverse and randomised tree arrangements boost forest productivity and ecosystem health. A new paper published in Nature ...

The initial contribution was announced by President Lula. He invited partners and other countries to make “equally ambitious” ...

Last week, we dealt with a new concept of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) – a market-based tool for better management of ecosystem services. PES is a simple idea with powerful implications ...

FORESTS in Tanzania, particularly on the Mainland, play a vital role in sustaining life and driving development. They not ...

Sea level rise is causing ghost forests to expand along the east coast, with hotspots in New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina. Salt marshes are migrating to take the place of wetland forests, ...

Through the commodification of nature, the framing of the environment as a 'natural resource' or 'ecosystem service' has become increasingly prominent in international environmental governance. The ...

Environmental Conservation, Vol. 43, No. 4, Thematic section. Forest Ecosystem Services (DECEMBER 2016), pp. 397-406 (10 pages) Andean grasslands (páramos) are highly valued for their role in regional ...

Covering a third of the planet’s land surface, forests are massive carbon sinks, absorbing and storing carbon dioxide and keeping it out of the atmosphere where it would contribute to global warming.