During my 2023-24 IIE Rodman C. Rockefeller Centennial Fellowship research in eastern Panama, I walked through my neighbor Johnson’s land (not his real name), discussing the 18 hectares (44 acres) of ...

A forest monitoring platform, Ground Truthed.id (GTID), has launched in Indonesia to fight deforestation by making it easier to track the legality of commodities like palm oil, timber, and other ...

LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Global investors managing over $3 trillion in assets called on governments on Monday to stop and reverse deforestation and ecosystem degradation by 2030, in a statement ...

Imazon has developed AI deforestation prediction models that inform policies and help law enforcement protect the Amazon ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has ...

If reports are true, Cameroon may be a new home for cocoa production. According to the charity Mighty Earth, production there has expanded significantly in recent years, with manufacturers not facing ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

As forests around the globe vanish at alarming rates, the EU is promoting tough new rules to curb deforestation and products linked to it. But political pressure is mounting at home to water them down ...

European Union agrees rules on imports of various products Importing firms must show operations do not damage forests Climate activists welcome move before COP15 nature summit Dec 6 (Thomson Reuters ...

The deadly flooding that has killed hundreds in Indonesia was largely the result of monsoon rains and a rare tropical storm. But something else may have played a role: deforestation. Environmentalists ...