Tag: deforestation

A new study published in Science, suggests tropical forests can regain roughly 78% of their old growth status if left ...

After three days of speeches, world leaders head back home leaving the rest of the negotiations to their delegates in ...

Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, described Brazil as a “green powerhouse” at a speech on Monday, while absent from the COP26 ...

Deforestation has plagued the Amazon rainforest for generations. Evidence suggests that the crisis is only deepening, whilst economic priorities consistently ...

Earth’s oceans and lands are essential carbon sinks and slow climate change by reducing the rate at which carbon emissions ...

We often hear how Brazil’s deforestation crisis threatens its major ecosystems and the people who live in them. That’s an ...

The stop-deforestation campaigns have a broad range of targets. Depending on who’s talking and what action and reaction are sought ...

New analysis shows that just seven agricultural commodities — cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and plantation wood fiber ...

This article featuring Copernicus satellites' images, is the first of a monthly series about climate change. Every month we will ...

A recent analysis by the Zoological Society of London found that over half of the 100 most significant tropical timber and pulp ...

Everyone is talking about trees. In January, the World Economic Forum founded the Trillion Trees initiative (1t.org), an effort to protect ...

The tropics lost 11.9 million hectares of tree cover in 2019, according to data from the University of Maryland, released today ...