For the Indigenous Gayo, Alas, Kluet, Aneuk Jamee, and Karo peoples, Leuser is not merely a forest—it is sacred ancestral land. Their stewardship has kept the ecosystem intact for centuries. But in ...

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save ...

Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record ...

In 2024, six Latin American countries were in the top 10 nations with the highest loss of tropical primary forest, according ...

Tropical forests help regulate the global climate, host irreplaceable biodiversity and provide fresh water resources. Plus ...

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

And those fires contributed to deforestation ... to finance new strategies to protect the world’s largest tropical rainforest,” Ebus said. Ebus said Amazon countries need to cooperate more ...

Commodities from just four countries will face the strictest checks under the European Union's anti-deforestation law, with ...

It was nearly double the previous year’s total and the largest area of fire-related tropical forest loss ever recorded. This spike in fire-driven deforestation isn’t just another grim ...

Learn more about deforestation.) As widespread burning continues today in tropical forests in the Amazon, and some parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, experts have expressed concern about the ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team ...