Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Trees and Their Importance explores the vital role trees have played from early American settlement to modern life, ...

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

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Looking at one graph of population growth and deforestation, the ascending lines follow a strikingly similar trajectory. Since the emergence of agriculture, humans have deliberately set fire to ...

Avocados are a water-intensive crop, and meeting irrigation demand depletes water sources for local communities and leaves remaining native forests vulnerable to fire and disease. Today’s letter ...

The study found agroforestry has helped reduce deforestation across Southeast Asia by an estimated 250,319 hectares (618,552 acres) per year between 2015 and 2023, lowering emissions and ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Indonesia’s plan to expand rice and sugar cane cultivation in South Papua risks extensive deforestation, including primary forests and peatlands, potentially ...

To support this objective, to date the SLMP has supported analytical studies and policy advisory on key issues ranging from deforestation, fire prevention, social forestry, and participatory land ...

Local communities say they're already experiencing harm from the government-backed project, which environmental watchdogs say is the largest current planned deforestation operation in the world.

Fire is not a natural phenomenon in the Amazon ... the leading engines of deforestation across Brazil. According to a January report, in recent years, deforestation due to soy production has ...