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Banks have arranged more than $425 billion of financing for the companies most responsible for deforestation over the past decade. That includes $72 billion provided to the beef, palm oil, soy, rubber ...

A new report by an industry watchdog adds to growing scientific consensus that as forests are felled to make way for coffee farms, rainfall decreases and crops are more likely to fail. By Ephrat Livni ...

Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp on what it even means to be conscious. But our purely human urge to ask the ...

Milton's Crawford Lake is known as a popular place for hiking. But scientists say it also best exemplifies the moment — about 800 years ago — when we began to see the effect of humans on earth's ...

Decades of climate research and data have yielded expanded understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the climate. This fast-track study will review the latest scientific evidence on whether ...

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 ...

Understanding the impacts of deforestation and forest degradation is essential. Learn about the consequences and actionable solutions to protect our planet. Deforestation is one of the pressing issues ...

The United States and European Union have penned a framework agreement on transatlantic trade, in which they agree US commodities – including cattle, soy and wood – pose zero deforestation risk. The ...

Sociologist Thomas Rudel explores the social and political forces behind global reforestation, arguing that forest regrowth is rarely automatic and often depends on human decisions and local ...