Stumps and mud puddles across the landscape, a plowed field or houses a year after that. But deforestation isn't just a loss of trees; it's a loss of the countless benefits that forests provide ...

Beyond the balance-sheet, Anders Krogh, a specialist forest adviser at RFN, says these findings demonstrate the danger deforestation poses to global food security. When ancient forests become ...

Yearly deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by almost a third since August 2023, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, plummeting to a nine-year low after historic droughts and ...

Deforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study published Tuesday. Forests nearly the size of Ireland were lost in 2023 ...

In Bolivia, deforestation surged by 351% between 2015 and 2023, a trend that "shows no signs of abating," according to the researchers. In Indonesia, deforestation began to rise again last year ...

Deforestation has been linked to a range of commodities including palm oil, soy, cocoa and cattle. But how close is its link with dairy? The need to feed livestock drives deforestation. Crops such as ...

Barriers remain, particularly around data; but a joint AFi-CDP report finds 7% of companies assessed have eliminated deforestation from at least one supply chain. In Time for Transparency: ...

Rates of deforestation decreased significantly during the last year in Colombia and Brazil, two Amazonian nations that have historically been among the 10 countries with the highest forest loss in the ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 22.3% in the 12 months through July, government data showed Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made progress on a pledge to rein in the ...

By Manuela Andreoni Reporting from Rio de Janeiro. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to a five-year low, the country’s National Institute of Space Research announced on ...

Over the past two decades, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that deforestation, by triggering a complex cascade of events, creates the conditions for a range of deadly pathogens ...