The Overwhelming Value Of Trees
ConservationBill Lauranceheat islands, cities, megacities, trees, evapotranspiration, air pollution, cancer, cardiovascular disease, asthma, emphysema, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds, slums, environmental services, floods, carbon storage, biomass, global warming, shade, evaporative cooling, clouds, economic losses, disease, malaria, diarrhea, water pollution, deforestation, mosquitoes, heat stress, urban growth, urban expansion, population growth, developing nations, Africa, Latin America, Asia, drinking water, epidemic disease, green cities, urban ecology
Want to get sick? Just cut down more forest
Infrastructure ExpansionBill Laurancedisease, deforestation, malaria, leishmaniasis, yellow fever, AIDS, Ebola, hantavirus, truckers, roads, prostitutes, evapotranspiration, globalization, sandflies, mosquitoes
Could disease be driving extinctions of Australian mammals?
Bill LauranceAustralian mammal declines, Northern Australian mammal declines, disease, epidemic disease, foreign pathogen, bettongs, northern bettong, brush-tailed bettong, chytrid fungus, frog declines, rinderpest, white-nose disease, ebola, feral cats, overgrazing, fire regimes, Sandra Abell, Penny van Oosterzee, Noel Preece, James Cook University, Peter Daszak, Tasmanian Devil, facial tumor disease, Trypanosomiasis, Christmas Island, Northern Bettong, Woylie, Brush-tailed Bettong, Saiga antelope
