deforestation

The loss of forests across Africa has long been documented. But recent studies show that small farmers from Senegal to Ethiopia to Malawi are allowing trees to regenerate on their lands, resulting in improved crop yields, productive fruit harvests and a boost for carbon storage.

New research finds that tropical mammals suffer the impact of deforestation even if they live in protected areas.

The activist group alleges that Cargill, the nation’s largest privately-held company and the world’s largest agribusiness company, has failed to keep pledges on eliminating deforestation from its supply chains.

A major new United Nations report being released on Monday is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold.

Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is in the process of leaving, moving Indonesia’s capital to the island of Borneo.

The 19-year-old Indigenous Hmong-Indian American documentary filmmaker mentors and supports youth climate leaders.

The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for the world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous.

Canada's negotiators at the COP15 conference say business groups and financial institutions have a role to play in preserving the planet's biodiversity.

Canada supports the goals of the European Union's forestry trade rules, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says, after a leaked letter recently revealed the country's efforts to water down proposed regulations right before the United Nations' global biodiversity conference kicks off in Montreal.

As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. blamed years of deforestation for a deadly mudslide that buried a mountainside community amid last week’s torrential rains set off by a storm that has left more than 130 people dead across the country.

Climate crisis report says "we are not winning in any sector" as experts call for urgent action on fossil fuels.

A massive wood pulp producer with ties to a conglomerate responsible for destroying huge swaths of Indonesian rainforest is set to acquire yet another Canadian forestry company in two weeks' time.

The huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say the world’s leading scientists.

Vanessa Nakate's climate activism over the past three years has propelled her to the world stage.