Leather from cattle raised in deforested areas and on Indigenous land in the northern Brazilian state of Pará is being turned ...

The Trump administration has paved the way for massive deforestation in the US by ending Clinton-era rules that protected 58 ...

In theory, planting trees can wipe away the carbon cost of burning fossil fuels. But a new peer-reviewed analysis shows just ...

It would take more than 9.5 million square miles of trees to offset the emissions of the world’s 200 largest fossil fuel ...

European banks accused of financing deforestation in South America. Campaigners are calling for policymakers to include finance providers in forthcoming EU regulations banning deforestation-linked ...

Scientists warn the Amazon may be nearing a tipping point of irreversible collapse, threatening the water cycles and agricultural lifelines of South America. Deforestation is no longer just an ...

Deforestation fell by 30.6 percent in the year-to-year period beginning in August 2023, ... Over the last century, the Amazon rainforest -- which covers nearly 40 percent of South America ...

As governments try to advance their fight against deforestation, criminals are finding new ways to take down trees for profit. In South America, chemical deforestation is one of the newest ...

Environment Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon's worst-ever drought. Forest loss is thought to have played a part in record low rainfall across South America this year, in a sign that ...

More than half of Brazil is racked by drought. Blame deforestation. Latin America’s largest country is being baked by its worst drought on record. September 12, 2024. 4 min. Summary.

President Lula da Silva has pledged to put an end to deforestation in the Amazon by 2030. In the Amazon , which covers nearly 40% of South America, deforestation is usually linked to agricultural ...