Why Chop the Amazon Rainforest in Half? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJanuary 10, 2018Amazon, rainforest, road, BR-319, BR-174, Manaus, Porto Velho, habitat fragmentation, poaching, logging, fires, BR-163, Rio Negro Bridge, William Laurance, Philip Fearnside, land speculation, illegal mining Comments
Brazil's Amazon Sellout Threatens Critical Indigenous Lands PoliticsBill LauranceNovember 13, 2017Brazil, indigenous groups, Michel Temer, corruption, ruralist, impeachment, Brazilian Congress, protected areas, forest roads, illegal land claims, land-theft, modern-day slavery, fires, illegal logging, illegal mining, G-7 Pilot Program for the Brazilian Amazon, rainfall recyclingComment
New Danger: Invading Poachers Kill With Mega-Fires ConservationBill LauranceOctober 23, 2017fires, game species, Africa, Zimbabwe, local villages, frontier migration, social conflict, roads, logging, mining, industrial mines, traditional livelihoods, mega-fires, gold miners Comments
Demise of the World's Forest Giants ConservationBill LauranceJuly 12, 2016big trees, giant trees, big old trees, forest giants, deforestation, logging, drought, weeds, fires, habitat fragmentation, David Lindenmayer, William Laurance, Mountain Ash, Gamba Grass, Lantana, carbon storage, evapotranspiration, fruit, foliage, nectar, tree cavities Comment
Brazil burning: Drought & legal changes imperil forests Climate ChangeBill LauranceJanuary 19, 2016Brazil, deforestation, Forest Code, Dilma Rousseff, fires, El Nino, drought, Amazon, infrastructure, indigenous lands, Brazilian Congress, zero deforestation, Godzilla, climate change, Paris COPComment
Africa's Greatest Environmental Challenge -- Ever ConservationBill LauranceNovember 28, 2015Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, development corridors, African Development Bank, mining, agriculture, food security, population growth, Current Biology, roads, railroads, energy infrastructure, power lines, gas lines, colonization, poaching, hunting, deforestation, infrastructure, wildlife, elephant, fires Comments
As Indonesia burns, its government moves to increase forest destruction RainforestsBill LauranceNovember 24, 2015Indonesia, Malaysia, Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries, Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries, oil palm, deforestation, fires, El Nino, drought, no-deforestation pledges, press release, respiratory distress, haze, air pollution, carbon emissions, peat forest, peatland, Bill Laurance, William Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Lian Pin Koh, Global Forest Watch, GreenpeaceComment
Stealing the Rain from a Rainforest Martine MaronNovember 15, 2015drought, rainforest, Daintree Drought Experiment, Susan Laurance, James Cook University, Daintree Rainforest Observatory, tree survival, plant physiology, big trees, fires, canopy crane, Godzilla Comment
The Indonesian Inferno: A Completely Preventable Crisis Bill LauranceOctober 24, 2015Indonesia, fires, haze, smoke, smog, school closures, airport closures, air pollution, carbon emissions, peatlands, peat fires, deforestation, Singapore, Malaysia, New Guinea, Sumatra, Borneo, Micronesia, President Joko Widodo, El Nino, drought, Erik Meijaard, fire ban, Brazil, remote sensing, Global Forest Watch, oil palm, Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries, zero deforestation Comments
Choking on smoke: The growing curse of Indonesia's wildfires Bill LauranceSeptember 30, 2015Indonesia, fires, smoke, smog, air pollution, wildfires, Malaysia, Singapore, Asia Pulp & Paper, deforestation, oil palm, wood pulp, slash-and-burn, corruption, Sinar Mas, Godzilla, El Nino, drought, air quality, school closures, peatlandsComment
The scariest things about climate change are what we don't know Bill LauranceAugust 2, 2015climate change, global warming, environmental impacts, biodiversity, environmental synergisms, William Laurance, scientific uncertainty, global circulation models, precipitation, rainfall, rainforests, Amazon, Borneo, fires, heat waves, high-elevation endemics, cool-adapted species, thermal specialists, climate change deniers, habitat fragmentation, loggingComment
Australia’s ‘Ecological Axis of Evil’ triggers native mammal collapse Bill LauranceFebruary 26, 2015northern Australia, mammal declines, quolls, native rodents, bandicoots, smaller vertebrates, overgrazing, fire management, fires, feral animals, feral cats, dingoes, invasive species, livestock grazing, protected areas, species extinction, biodiversity crisis, Australia, Mark Ziembicki Comment
Dramatic erosion of world's last intact forests Bill LauranceSeptember 7, 2014Intact Forest Landscapes, road building, logging, fires, forest conversion, agriculture, Russia, Canada, Brazil, Greenpeace, University of Maryland, Transparent World, World Resources Institute, WWF-Russia, Global Forest WatchComment
Fire alert: Could 2014 be 'the year from hell'? Bill LauranceMarch 27, 2014fires, wildfires, ENSO, El Nino, drought, forest fires, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Amazon, Sumatra, Borneo, climatology, respiratory distress, asthma, smoke, smogComment
Top ecologist: New park only solution to Victoria forest 'disaster' Conservation, WildlifeBill LauranceFebruary 21, 2014mountain ash forests, Great Forest National Park, David Lindenmayer, Leadbeater's Possum, Victoria, Logging, fires, world's tallest treesComment
