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Leonardo Dicaprio Visits Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

While there, he has been finding how Palm Oil is destroying the habitat, and raising awareness of the problem of deforestation.
Dicaprio also visited Sumatran Oranguta...

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Environment

Designing A World Where Environmentalists Win

“Captain Planet! He’s our hero…”
If you’re a millennial, you can probably fill in the rest. While the green-mulleted eco-hero didn&rsquo...

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Dense Forests Lost; Increase In Net Green Cover: Forest Survey Of India 2015

India may have lost 2,511 sq km of prime forests, says the latest Forest Survey of India (FSI) report released on Friday, December 4. Prime forests are classified as very d...

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Health

Women's Rights Must Be A Major Part OF Any Climate Deal

This Human Rights Day is particularly significant. In Paris, negotiators are trying to come to agreement on a global climate treaty, and a lot is on the line -- especially ...

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Environment

There’s a New Plan to Save Madagascar’s Lemurs From the Brink of Extinction.

Lemurs are unique to Madagascar and there are around 100 different species, but a 2014 report by International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that nearly...

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Environment

A Huge Fire In The Amazon Threatens Thousands Of Indigenous People And An Uncontacted Tribe

The Arariboia indigenous territory is home to an estimated 12,000 people belonging to the Guajajara ethnic group, and to another 80 Aw?-Guaj? Indians, not previously contac...

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Environment

Forecasters In Indonesia Underestimated How Much El Ni?o Would Worsen Massive Forest Fires

Indonesia's forecasters underestimated the El Ni?o weather event that has worsened the country's massive forest fires, which are blanketing Southeast Asia in a noxious, car...

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Environment

Indonesia's Fires Are Emitting More Carbon Pollution Than The Entire US Economy

More than 115,000 fires are burning across the Southeast Asian nation, most of them on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, according to the Global Fire Emissions Databas...

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Environment

Every Forest Biome On Earth Is Actively Dying Right Now

But according to the latest issue of Science, which is devoted to forest health, every major forest biome is struggling. While each region suffers from unique pressures, th...

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Environment

It Turns Out Earth Has Seven Times as Many Trees as Previously Thought

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers describe using a combination of satellite imaging, boots on the ground trees-counting, and forest inventor...

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