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Reporting from the world's last wild places.

PlanetNexa covers forests, wildlife and climate with the same care the field deserves — clear, sourced, and free of noise. New reporting published every week.

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The Fundamentals

Why forests still set the terms

Three reasons the health of forested land continues to shape the systems everyone depends on.

Carbon storage

Standing forest — trunks, roots and soil together — holds carbon that took centuries to accumulate and only moments to release when a stand is cleared.

Biodiversity refuge

Intact canopy and understory layers support species webs that fragmented, single-species plantations simply cannot replicate.

Watershed regulation

Root systems and forest soils slow runoff, recharge groundwater, and buffer the floods and droughts that follow clearance.

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Coverage Areas

Wildlife, climate and the field between them

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Wildlife

Field reporting on the species returning, struggling, and adapting as habitat shifts around them.

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Climate

How a warming climate is reshaping forest range, fire risk, and the policy responses trying to keep up.

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Conservation

The people, funding models, and community projects doing the slow work of restoration.

Opinion & Analysis, from PlanetNexa Editorial

Longer-form arguments and perspective pieces from our editorial desk — where the reporting ends and the analysis begins.

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