"If we want to know what we are doing to ourselves as well as the rest of life on Earth, we must engage in long term ecological research," conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy says.
Forests around the world are absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but they still can't keep up with the sheer volume of the global-warming gas being emitted through human activity, a new study has found.
Critics worry that policies looking to grow Colombia's palm oil production further will come at big costs to the country's small farmers and indigenous groups.
