Read this excerpt from Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines to find out what makes rainforests so valuable for our planet.
Photos from the book Rainforest showcase the beauty and diversity of our planet's rainforests.
After some seven decades of mixed results in development assistance, there is a growing consensus that the greatest challenge is governance—in both the recipient and the donor countries.
Whenever we hear about stories like these, stories of such immense exploitation and predation, there is a tendency to think: How can this happen? How can obscenely rich investors run roughshod over the land, livelihoods, and rights of impoverished...
This blog originally appeared on JunauEmpire.com and is reposted with permission.
Change is not for the risk...
Island Press is pleased to be co-sponsoring the 2104 Chico Vive conference at American University in DC this weekend. The conference brings together grassroots activists, NGOs, students, engaged scholars, applied...
If you've been following Olympics news, you know it's not just quad throws, Yolo flips, and medal counts.
The President’s groundbreaking speech on climate change was as an historic step to follow up on his message to Congress that if they don’t take action on climate change, he will. But will he now follow suit by taking even bolder actions on forests?
This August I traveled to Glasgow to keynote a symposium on temperate rainforests at the European Congress of Conservation Biology (...
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