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Researchers from the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program are involved in the recently launched EU-funded Trees4Adapt project. The project focuses on tree-based solutions for climate ...

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The cultivation of oil palm is here to stay. However, a five-year study indicates that creating islands of native trees within oil-palm monocultures increases biodiversity and ecosystem functioning ...

Lush landscape of the Amazon Rainforest in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. As an ecologist, the most frequent question I get asked is: Can nature really help in the fight against climate change? The ...

My childhood home in Vermont included a backyard that opened up to a trail through the woods. Perhaps it was an old logging or sugaring trail. After school, that road led me into a separate world, one ...