Brazil’s government has announced a $75 million investment in the BR-319 highway, a move environmentalists fear could speed ...

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

A technology designed to mitigate global warming could, paradoxically, contribute to carbon emissions if hotter temperatures lead to a shift in where bioenergy crops are grown. Bioenergy with carbon ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite ...

Destruction of rainforest for cattle ranching is making the Amazon biome more vulnerable to irreversible collapse, which could occur within decades if deforestation continues. A landmark 2022 study on ...

Lower tipping point: Researchers found climate change reduces the deforestation threshold for rainfall loss from 50% to as low as 10% in high-emission scenarios. Agriculture at risk: Even a 4% drop in ...

More than 489 million hectares of forest land have been lost since 1990 due to deforestation. Human activities have significantly altered about 75% of land and 66% of marine environments, with climate ...

SAO PAULO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva came into office in 2023 pledging to tackle deforestation in the Amazon and restore his country as a climate leader after ...

Ranchi: Erratic climate change and widespread deforestation are fracturing the delicate relationship between Jharkhand’s tribal communities and the environment, triggering a severe livelihood and ...

Two pioneering projects from Sri Lanka and Malawi win USD 25,000 each for green chemistry solutions addressing deforestation ...