Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Hydropower is outdated and harmful—causing deforestation, reduced rainfall, energy loss, and water insecurity. Safer, more ...

Is paper bad for the environment, and does it lead to deforestation? No. Paper production supports the environment and battles deforestation by relying on sustainably harvested materials.

Companies will need less paperwork to comply with the European Union's anti-deforestation law as of December when it kicks in with changes by the European Commission. The recent scene in the Oval ...

If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might expect that to cause lots of deforestation and harm local wildlife. Mining has a very ...

This makes it an attractive crop for growers and smallholders, who can rely on the steady income that palm oil provides. Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some ...

The environment ministry notes that despite the increase in deforestation last year, the 2024 figure is still one of the lowest in the past 23 years. However, experts fear that the increase will ...

In New Guinea, secondary roads contributed to 22.2 times more forest loss, and in the Brazilian Amazon they led to 305.2 times more deforestation and degradation compared with primary roads.

Using a dataset that spans decades, the researchers demonstrated how climate change and deforestation have shifted the behavior of bats in Australia such that the animals spend more time in urban and ...