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Trees are dying much faster in northern Australia - climate change is probably to blame

The rate of tree dying in the old-growth tropical forests of northern Australia each year has doubled since the 1980s, and researchers say climate change is probably to blame.

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Palm oil: What′s the big deal?

Palm oil has become an ingredient in so many of our daily staples. But its link to deforestation makes it unpopular. Is it as bad as we are led to believe?
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The Congo rainforest is losing ability to absorb carbon dioxide. That’s bad for climate change.
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The Congo rainforest is losing ability to absorb carbon dioxide. That’s bad for climate change.

Like the Amazon, the Congo Basin rainforest is turning from carbon “sink" to source, a new study says.

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Ecologists are racing to restore the world's tropical rainforests

Replenishing depleted rainforests is an urgent global imperative.

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