Brazil's Quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and ...

The EU has announced the four countries that will be considered 'high-risk' under the EUDR - Myanmar, Russia, North Korea, ...

The previous year, deforestation had already fallen by 11%, but that reduction was not uniform across all of Brazil’s biomes — ecosystems defined by distinct climate, vegetation, flora and fauna.

The Philippines launched one of the world's largest reforestation efforts. His office at the University of the Philippines in Laguna is crammed with books about trees and nature conservation. Hunched ...

Tackling monoculture and deforestation in the Amazon, Cuíca is using Brazilian chestnuts to make a plant-based milk that ...

Industrial plantations of trees to make paper and wood pellets are causing widespread and persistent environmental and social ...

The idea is firstly to exploit the large coverage and short revisit time provided by the constellation of Sentinel-1 satellites in order to cover the entire arch of deforestation about ones per month.

The island of New Guinea is famed for its eye-popping diversity of plants, animals and human cultures. Estimated to host one-tenth of Earth’s species, it’s the world’s second-largest island and has ...

Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy ... While there’s some year-to-year variation, deforestation is going up, not down. And last year, the destruction reached new heights.

A new WRI report finds deforestation in 2024, driven by fires, has nearly doubled compared to 2023, underscoring urgent calls ...

While coca crops remain the primary driver of deforestation — particularly in Meta, Putumayo, and the Naya River region — the report also highlights illegal gold mining as a growing threat.

Two decades later, the legend of mokele-mbembe remains alive, whispered in villages and embellished with each new “sighting,” and Abong’o says deforestation is the reason why. The Congo ...