It’s never too early to teach your kids to appreciate nature. In fact, the sooner they learn, the better. They need to be able to appreciate the natural world and understand how important it is to ...

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 ...

Since 2007, Marcelo Salazar has been living in the place that is the king of deforestation in Brazil: Altamira, in the state of Para. About the size of Florida, the Amazonian municipality was the ...

Deforestation, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, is the main reason Brazil is the world's sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. https://p.dw.com/p/52rMU ...

New research, based on forest fires in Australia, proves there is a significantly higher risk of large-scale flooding when major deforestation has occurred in catchment areas. The chance of ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is responsible for approximately 74.5% of the reduction in rainfall and 16.5% of the temperature increase in the biome during the dry season. For the first time, ...

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 ...

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Today, the Council formally adopted the regulation on the postponement of application of the EU deforestation law by one year. This postponement will allow third countries, member states, operators ...

The report shows that the practice of clear-cutting (removing all trees from a given area) in the Brazilian Amazon led to reduced crop yields, resulting in total economic losses of around $1bn between ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in 12 months through July President Lula's enforcement of environmental laws credited for reduction Lula pledges to end deforestation by 2030, hires 800 new ...