In 2024, the majority of tropical forests didn’t fall to the chainsaw; they burned. Wildfires destroyed 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary forest last year. That’s roughly the size of Ireland.

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has turned ...

Demand for palm oil, an ingredient found in nearly half of all supermarket products, is at an all time high – and so is awareness of its reputation as the number one cause of deforestation in ...

It’s yet another blow for the European Commission in its effort to get the anti-deforestation law up and running. The European Parliament is piling pressure on the European Commission to revise its ...

Deforestation of tropical rainforest sits at the confluence of climate change and biodiversity loss. We are losing tropical ...

Perhaps we can all agree that the state needs to manage our forests better, but certainly not by destroying them at a more rapid rate. It is incomprehensible that anyone would suggest more and faster ...

The “Forest 500 Report 2025” by Global Canopy reveals that only 3% of major companies with influence over forest-risk commodities are taking adequate action on deforestation, with beef identified as ...

Sao Paulo — As Brazil seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has ...

In 2024, the majority of tropical forests didn’t fall to the chainsaw; they burned. For the first time on record, wildfires became the primary cause of tropical forest loss, as global deforestation ...