You’ve heard the term, but do you know the true facts about deforestation? The makers of paper products do. But trust us: ...
Using two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors ...
"There's surely going to be deforestation." Residents outraged over government's controversial plan to convert millions of ...
We’ve seen fires devastating precious places like the Amazon rainforest. But what are the facts and what are the myths about the destruction of our forests? We’re here to help. While growing demand ...
Deforestation is also being driven by logging, human migration and population increases, extractive industries (mining, oil and gas), transport and infrastructure projects and expanding towns and ...
The deforestation and forest degradation associated with the secondary roads also varied greatly across regions. In the Congo Basin, deforestation associated with secondary roads was 31.5 times ...
In the time it takes to say ‘deforestation’, another chunk of forest the size of a football pitch is destroyed. That’s every two seconds, every single day. And the leading cause of this deforestation ...
Farming, cutting of timber, mining and often indiscriminate dam building for hydro electric power projects are the foremost causes of deforestation in India. Another factor is the burgeoning ...
James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to extensive deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin ...
Eight UK teenagers investigate the causes of deforestation threatening the habitat of the lemur and discover there are no simple solutions. STEVE BACKSHALL: This is Madagascar. It’s a vast ...