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A new law aimed at tackling deforestation risks hobbling exports of key commodities to Europe, raising consumer prices and threatening the livelihoods of farmers from Indonesia to Honduras.
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 ...
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 ...
This eye-opening map illustrates the alarming rates of deforestation across the globe, raising environmental concerns.
A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...
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 map of deforestation reveals that the planet has lost 888,000 square miles of forest since 2000.
Scientist have created the first high-resolution global map of forest extent, loss and gain, a resource that greatly improves our ability to understand human and naturally-induced forest changes ...
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 ...
The researchers examined the impacts of 24 high-income nations on 7,593 forest-dependent species of birds, mammals, and reptiles, integrating economic trade data, satellite-derived deforestation ...
The map also highlights the hypocrisies, its creators say, of deforestation commitments or high ESG investment ratings from brands that are still contributing to palm oil deforestation.
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, following calls from industries and ...