Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires and the election of anti-environmentalist president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazilians took to the streets …
Palm oil is everywhere today: in food, soap, lipstick, even newspaper ink. It’s been called the world’s most hated crop because of its association with deforestation in Southeast Asia.
Researchers at the University of Leeds in Britain published new research Tuesday — World Rainforest Day — showing that massive swaths of the eastern Amazon are at risk of severe drying by the end of…
Gabon has become the first African country to receive payment for reducing carbon emissions by protecting its rainforest.
The UN-backed Central African Forest Initiative (Cafi) has handed over $17m…
Campaigners say plans for a new tailings dam threatens wilderness that should be declared a heritage area.
Four days before the Morrison government was due to decide the future of a mining…
The Paris-based company says it will engage more with companies to push them to be more sustainable.
AXA SA’s investment management arm will stop investing in companies that contribute to…
Forest degradation has become the largest process driving carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon, according to a recent study using ESA satellite data.
While both deforestation and forest degradation…
Court ruling gives go-ahead for sugar plantation in Bugoma forest, home to endangered chimpanzees.
Conservationists in Uganda have condemned as “shallow and absurd” a court ruling that authorised…
International team of researchers also found that deforestation rose nearly four-fold in 2019.
The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20% more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the past decade…
Nearly 59m hectares of forests have regrown since 2000, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off.
An area of forest the size of France has regrown around the world over the past 20…
Consumption of coffee, chocolate and meat fuelling deforestation.
Each person living in a G7 country causes nearly four trees to be lost each year through their consumption of goods such as coffee,…
Lord Goldsmith said the new rule would ‘tackle deforestation’, but environmental campaigners warned it does not go far enough
The UK government is set to introduce a new law to stop businesses from…
Drax in Yorkshire burns wood pellets to generate electricity, but forests cannot be replaced quickly enough, say campaigners.
The UK’s plan to burn more trees to generate “renewable” electricity has…
As a UN report highlights the role native communities can play in tackling deforestation, Daisy Dunne speaks to indigenous leaders from across Central and South America.
Indigenous leaders in Latin…
Destruction of the world’s forests increased last year even as pandemic shutdowns curbed economic growth, adding more pressure on nations and business trying to cut carbon emissions.
Update from NGO’s Global Forest Watch scheme highlights that deforestation of tropical forests crucial for biodiversity and storing carbon continue to rise
2020 was meant to be a landmark year in…
Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests - and radically changing the environment before our eyes
by Alastair Gee
Global study shows blazes diminish forest density and tree size, making woods likely to sequester less carbon.
More fierce and frequent fires are reducing forest density and tree size and may damage…
US scientist Thomas Lovejoy says the rainforest’s rich biodiversity has been undervalued compared to economic activities such as farming and mining.
The Amazon will be transformed into a “highly…
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