Mastodawn

What if we paid countries to NOT cut down their forests? Brazil and international partners are launching a $125 billion fund to do exactly that. Protecting nature is sound economic policy. 🌳 #TropicalForests #ClimateFinance

Conservation’s Hot Topics of 2...

Conservation’s Hot Topics of 2026: From Artificial Intelligence to Mirror Molecules • The Revelator

Forests, soil, plastic waste, war debris, and a darker ocean also appear on the annual ‘horizon scan’ addressing conservation priorities for the years ahead.

The Revelator

Jon Corsiglia Apr 21

Conservation’s Hot Topics of 2026: From Artificial Intelligence to Mirror Molecules • The Revelator

Forests, soil, plastic waste, war debris, and a darker ocean also appear on the annual ‘horizon scan’ addressing conservation priorities for the years ahead.

The Revelator

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Mar 10

Drivers Of Forest Disturbance In Southeast Asia [incl. spatial analysis]
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2026.105220 <-- shared paper 🔗
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https://github.com/shijuanchen/SEA_forest_dis <-- shared GitHub ‘data repository 🔗
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #vegetation #Forestdisturbance #Forestdegradation #Deforestation #remotesensing #SoutheastAsia #Asia #tropicalforests #timeseriesanalysis #geostatistics #disturbance #clearing #planting #agriculture #earthobservation #imagery #CCDC #changedetection #landcover #landuse #change #plantation #cultivation #slashandburn #planning #mitigation #catalogue #conservation #management #landmanagement #machinelearning #imageanalysis #AI

BellingenNSW Feb 5

Small persistent humid forest clearings drive tropical forest biomass losses

"Tropical forests store about half of the global forest above ground carbon (AGC), yet extensive areas are affected by disturbances, such as deforestation from agricultural expansion and degradation from fires, selective logging, and edge effects...Findings highlight the disproportionate impact of small clearings on tropical carbon losses, suggesting the need to curb land-use changes and protect young and recovering forests."
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Xu, Y., Ciais, P., Santoro, M. et al. Small persistent humid forest clearings drive tropical forest biomass losses. Nature 649, 375–380 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09870-7 (paywall)
#Deforestation #Climate #LoggingImpacts #degradation #FCNSW #NSWLogging #PostHarvestBurn #DeliberatelyBurningAForest #EPA #MicroClimate #bushfires #NativeForests #AGC #BookkeepingApproach #ESA #TropicalForests #biodiversity

GhanaPhenoPulse Jan 23

Have you seen our #Citizenscience image labeling project yet? Please check GhanaPhenoPulse at zooniverse.org available in #English and #Arabic. We are tracking the timing of #flowers, #fruits and #leaves in #tropicalforests in #Ghana!
#Phenology
#Opendata
@LacunaFund

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jan 15

Recovering #tropicalforests grow back nearly twice as fast with #nitrogen

https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/press-release/recovering-tropical-forests-grow-back-nearly-twice-fast-nitrogen

Recovering tropical forests grow back nearly twice as fast with nitrogen

A new study coauthored by Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies ecologist Sarah Batterman estimates that if recovering tropical forests had enough nitrogen in their soils, they might absorb up to an additional 820 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year for a decade.

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Oliver Brendel Jan 3

#ClimateChange is pushing #TropicalForests #Ecosystems into a new hypertropical climate with stronger summer droughts, where pinoneer trees with less dense wood are more likely to have a high mortality
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09728-y
#AcademicChatter
#Trees
#Drought

Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate - Nature

Thirty years of forest demographic data, combined with recent ecophysiological measurements, reveal that intense Amazon droughts sharply increase tree mortality once soil moisture falls below a threshold, and that these hot droughts will become more frequent and intense as Earth warms towards hypertropical conditions.

Nature

Quantum Splash Nov 9, 2025

🙏🏼 Please share before #COP30 tomorrow.

❤️ Indigenous youth are rising: Across #TropicalForests , a new generation speaks with a unified voice: 🌎🌍🌏 https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/79351/indigenous-youth-rising-tropical-forests-generation-speaks-unified-voice

#forest #RespectTheAmazon #rainforest
#Amazon #Borneo #CongoBasin #Papua
#ClimateChange

Indigenous youth are rising: Across tropical forests, a new generation speaks with a unified voice - Greenpeace International

Deep within the forest of Sira Village, West Papua, nearly 100 young Indigenous Leaders gathered for a Forest Defenders Camp.

Greenpeace International

Killer Rabbit 90 Nov 5, 2025

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/05/uk-opts-out-of-flagship-fund-to-protect-amazon-and-other-threatened-tropical-forests #UK #AmazonRainforest #TropicalForests #COP30 #CllimateChange #ClimateCrisis

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests

Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William

The Guardian

Enlite IAS Oct 26, 2025

Why in the News?
Tropical forests — Earth’s lungs — are losing biodiversity and releasing stored carbon at alarming rates.

From the Amazon to the Western Ghats, deforestation now threatens climate stability and livelihoods alike.

For UPSC, it bridges GS3 (Environment) with current affairs on carbon sinks, COP goals, and sustainable development.

#EnliteIAS #TropicalForests #ClimateChange #EnvironmentAndEcology #GS3 #UPSC2025 #UPSCPrep