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One of Southeast Asia’s Conservation Areas Is Under Threat

Due to its size and location, the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra in Indonesia is hailed as one of the largest conservation areas in Southeast Asia and the last habitat for many endangered animals.

Hans Nicholas Jong

A trio of fly agarics (Amanita muscaria) growing near Loveland Pass, Colorado. These colorful mushrooms were used by native Siberian shamans for vision quests and, sliced into a bowl of milk, can also act as a fly poison, hence its name.

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These Mysterious Mushrooms Are Key to Our Planet’s Ecosystems

Interaction of forests and fungi plays a huge role in the Earth's global carbon cycle.

Bob Berwyn

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In Uganda, Paying People Not to Cut Down Trees Is Working

Researchers say a conservation initiative known as a payments for ecosystem services really paid off in terms of preventing deforestation.

Mike Gaworecki

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Green Pacific Northwest Sees an Unfamiliar Sight: Smoke and Fire

A NASA satellite image shows fires in the Pacific Northwest, which now hosts 10 times as many large fires as it did before 1960.

Francie Diep

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New DNA Extraction Techniques Are Helping Enhance Our Understanding of Elephants’ Biological History

Recent advances in laboratory methods are enabling scientists to recover very old or degraded DNA sequences from warmer places, where DNA degrades at a much faster rate.

Sue Palminteri

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Another Setback for the EPA’s Regulatory Rollbacks

EPA Chief Scott Pruitt suggested that his decision to reverse course reflects his willingness to work closely with state regulators.

Kate Wheeling

Indian villagers gather around a well to fill their pots with water at Natwargadh village.

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Humid Heat Waves Will Top Limits of Human Survivability

By the end of the century, deadly heat waves could become an annual occurrence in South Asia.

Kate Wheeling

A stretch of jungle, scorched for agricultural use, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Legislative Loopholes Could Be Helping Norway Fund Deforestation in Congo

A Rainforest Foundation UK briefing highlights very weak governance in the country, which means there is limited ability for the government to control its forest resources and to implement effective planning and management.

Morgan Erickson-Davis