There’s no single culprit responsible for deforestation: around the world, forest cover is lost because of fires, disease, logging, clear-cutting, and myriad other factors. And the environmental ...

Saving the trees, we are not. An unprecedented global map of forest changes over the last decade shows that deforestation is still rampant globally. Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost 2.3 ...

A new law aimed at tackling deforestation risks hobbling exports of key commodities to Europe, ... news and insight around the world. ... The Race to Map the World and Protect $110 Billion of Trade.

The Deforestation Index map evaluates 180 countries where high rates of deforestation occurred between 2005 and 2010. According to the report, forest degradation is responsible for about 20% of ...

Malaysia had the world’s highest rate of forest loss between 2000 and 2012, according to a new global forest map developed in partnership with Google.. Malaysia’s total forest loss during the ...

A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

Every year, the world produces some 70 million tonnes of palm oil, and it primarily comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, where palm oil production has driven deforestation.

Balboni and Olken have now helped write a new paper providing a road map for thinking about this crisis. ... So, how can the world tackle deforestation? It starts with understanding the problem.

World Forest ID has worked with nonprofits, governments and enforcement agencies to track deforestation, provide scientific evidence for court cases, and keep a check on sanctioned Russian timber ...

According to the results, consumption-driven deforestation caused by the 24 developed countries importing timber or crops from outside of their borders was responsible for 13.3% of global range ...

Monitoring deforestation with satellites, maps and data. Satellite monitoring for deforestation can be used in many ways, from sending deforestation alerts to authorities, to tracking the growth of ...

BRUSSELS/LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The European Commission said it would propose delaying implementation of a law banning the import of commodities linked to deforestation by a year on Wednesday ...