Devastating floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Cyclone Senyar on Indonesia's Sumatra Island have drawn attention to broader environmental issues, with experts saying the scale of destruction ...

Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its ...

Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America have historically been guardians of nature, but their role could be more important than previously estimated. New research carried out in four Amazonian ...

New research, based on forest fires in Australia, proves there is a significantly higher risk of large-scale flooding when major deforestation has occurred in catchment areas. The chance of ...

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, popularly known as Jane Goodall, passed away at the age of 91. She was a primatologist, zoologist, and anthropologist, best known as a leading expert on chimpanzees. Jane ...

A delegate stands in front of a backdrop for the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) during the opening of the High-Level Leaders Summit in Addis Ababa, on Sept. 8, 2025. Credit - Luis Tato—Getty ...

The continent continues to lose forest cover due to a complex web of factors, including weak governance, land competition between economic sectors, poverty, and insecure land tenure. One of the main ...

The United States and European Union have penned a framework agreement on transatlantic trade, in which they agree US commodities – including cattle, soy and wood – pose zero deforestation risk. The ...

CIFOR-ICRAF receives funding from more than 50 donors, so I am not going to list them all. You can consult our annual financial reports Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty ...

In boardrooms around the world one critical threat remains off the radar as risk managers fixate instead on geopolitical shocks, supply chain disruptions, and inflation. And that rarely prioritized ...