What can companies that source products from the Amazon—from chocolate and coffee to wood and soy—do differently? When businesses first started making pledges to fight deforestation in 2010, “they ...

Law’s original author points to removal of obligations for downstream traders to verify origin of commodities ...

In short, not so good. Global Forest Watch, a project of the non-profit World Resources Institute (WRI) which uses satellite data to track global forest loss, found that the world lost some 3.8 ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government on Monday unveiled how it plans to meet a pledge to eliminate deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, using strengthened law enforcement against environmental ...

BARCELONA - Brazil has reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 82 percent, the country's president, Dilma Rousseff, said at the United Nations on Sunday, as she announced Brazil's contribution to an ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. How can improving access to doctors and nurses for an Indigenous community in Borneo better protect the region’s fast-depleting rainforest and ...

SAO PAULO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's Para state, which leads the country for the highest levels of Amazon rainforest destruction, will launch a mandatory program to track cattle in a bid to crack ...

Since the late 1970s I’ve been actively involved in issues that relate directly to protecting forest ecosystems in the Northern Rockies bioregion. I still marvel at the beauty and God-given miracles ...

International efforts to stem forest loss and achieve the goal of zero net deforestation are lagging well behind target, International efforts to stem forest loss and achieve the goal of ‘zero net ...

A new study has confirmed that the best-preserved, and recovering, parts of the Brazilian Amazon are those managed by traditional communities or inside conservation units. Between 2005 and 2012, ...

After President Joe Biden entered the US into a global pledge at COP26 to end and reverse deforestation, a top Democrat in the House introduced a bill Wednesday to put financial weight behind Biden’s ...