Forests are essential to life as we know it. They play a vital role as carbon sinks and climate regulators, they are habitats ...

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

During my 2023-24 IIE Rodman C. Rockefeller Centennial Fellowship research in eastern Panama, I walked through my neighbor ...

A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found ...

Many everyday items could be connected to deforestation, from your morning coffee to chocolate snacks, leather shoes and ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its ...

Scientists say the radar will paint the first detailed global map of forests’ biomass, which is crucial for sucking up carbon ...

The first Earth Day happened shortly thereafter, on 1970. Of course, astronauts on their way to the Moon can provide a fresh ...

formally known as the E.U. Deforestation Regulation, is a potentially powerful tool to promote sustainable agriculture and prevent forest destruction. But it also represents what some are calling ...

This article outlines some key elements of the EUDR and compares it with deforestation prevention proposals emerging in other ...

An Indonesian soldier gives a thumbs up as he crosses a rice field on a combine harvester in remote Papua, where a government ...

There, deforestation is rampant ... opening up roads through the forest. Then cattle farmers cut and burn the remaining forest and lay claim (legally or not) to the land. Eventually, they sell ...