Forests are essential to life as we know it. They play a vital role as carbon sinks and climate regulators, they are habitats for a wealth of biodiversity, home to 300 million people and support the ...

The Tropical Forests Forever Facility, an initiative spearheaded by Brazil, would raise money from investments and pay countries to preserve forests – can it succeed where carbon markets have failed?

However, deforestation and degradation—especially in tropical ... It enhances our understanding of forests' roles in the carbon cycle and climate. Its P-band radar penetrates clouds and forest layers, ...

And when you recycle those products, you’re a part of the cycle that will ... confused with deforestation. Clear-cutting actually helps keep our forests as “carbon sinks,” as the young ...

So when we cut the trees down we release that carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. And…we’ve just cut down the very things that could lock it away again. If deforestation was a country it ...

as part of what is called ‘the global carbon cycle.’ A change in any of these fluxes could have wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems and our climate. The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and ...

Several coalmining companies purchased carbon credits based on “avoided deforestation” projects. The government banned the creation of new avoided deforestation projects in 2023 after an ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest ... key to the fight against climate change because of the vast amounts of carbon dioxide it absorbs. Risks to the forest drew global concern in ...

indicating that agroforestry has important implications for deforestation and carbon sequestration. “The message is not simply that agroforestry is great. For some target crops, it can be a ...

Deforestation in Brazil decreased across all ... and wants to make Brazil a leader in the fight against global warming, in which carbon-absorbing forests play a key role.

A report of Brazil’s Amazon beef industry published reveals that slaughterhouses complying with a settlement agreement are far more likely to follow laws prohibiting the purchase of cattle from ...