September 13, 2024
Regrowing tropical forests emit significantly lower soil carbon dioxide than cattle pastures.
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Agua Salud
December 29, 2023
A steady income stream incentivizes tropical landowners to reforest.
October 10, 2022
Can smart reforestation lessons from the Smithsonian’s Agua Salud Project in the Panama Canal watershed benefit Indigenous communities on deforested land in Western Panama?
January 11, 2022
Deforestation scenarios show the importance of secondary forest for meeting Panama’s carbon goals.
November 11, 2021
Analyses of microbial communities in streams across different land use types suggests that passive reforestation rapidly restores water quality in lowland tropical watersheds.
April 28, 2021
How can science help to restore deforested land, reduce the risk of flooding and combat climate change? Find out in a virtual chat with Jefferson Hall, director of STRI’s Agua Salud Project, Katherine Sinacore, post-doctoral fellow and Edwin Garcia, master’s degree student, moderated by STRI Interim Director, Oris Sanjur and Associate Director for Communications Linette Dutari.
