After oceans, forests are the largest storehouses of carbon. But we're losing forests at an alarming rate. Two-thirds of global forest cover loss is occuring mainly in the tropics and sub-tropics, ...

In New Guinea, secondary roads contributed to 22.2 times more forest loss, and in the Brazilian Amazon they led to 305.2 times more deforestation and degradation compared with primary roads.

A round-up of news from around the region, including a PNG member of parliament calling on government to ban gambling to ...