Earth’s tropical regions lost 12.2 million hectares of tree cover in 2020, including 4.2 million hectares, an area the size of the Netherlands, within primary forests. Carbon emissions resulting from this primary forest loss (2.64 Gt CO2) are roughly the same as the annual emissions of 570 million automobiles. This primary forest loss was 12% higher in 2020 than the year before, the second year in a row of worsening primary forest loss in the tropics. Indonesia’s rate of prim

Marcus Rosten, an aquatic ecology teacher in Buffalo, NY, inspires his students to understand their local ecosystems and history.

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In 2019, consumers tossed away nearly 1 billion tons of food or 17% of all food they bought. In 2019, 690 million people were undernourished