Global demand for a handful of agricultural commodities—from your morning coffee to a piece of chocolate—is the single largest driver of deforestation and habitat loss across the planet. As ...

By Gonzalo Ortuño López Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America have historically been guardians of nature, but their role could be more important than previously estimated. New research carried out ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased in July 2024, marking the first month-over-month rise since March 2023, with 666 square kilometers of forest destroyed. Despite the recent increase, ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Deforestation globally increased by 4% in 2022 over 2021, with over 6.6m hectares of forest lost AI enables prediction of ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Agriculture a major driver of deforestation, linked to 70-80% of forest loss New EU deforestation regulations affect ...

The world has lost a third of its forest since the last ice age, and an estimated 15 percent of global greenhouse gases still come from deforestation and forest degradation. Now a new pledge made at ...

Between 2002 and 2015, forest loss in Brazil’s southern Amazon reduced the amount of rainfall during the dry season by more than 5%, a recent study found. Researchers studying how deforestation in the ...

In boardrooms around the world one critical threat remains off the radar as risk managers fixate instead on geopolitical shocks, supply chain disruptions, and inflation. And that rarely prioritized ...

Antibiotic resistance in the soil microbiome, known as the soil resistome, has been shown to increase as a result of deforestation by an extensive sequencing study. A recent Brazilian research ...

Today, the Council agreed on its position on the targeted amendment of the EU deforestation regulation, postponing its date of application by 12 months. This postponement will allow third countries, ...