Fires also drove increases in forest loss elsewhere in Latin America, notably in Peru, Guyana, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua ... managed to keep fires at bay and maintain progress on ...

Colombia’s deforestation dropped 33% in early 2025 compared to last year, with significant reductions in Amazon national ...

The island of New Guinea is famed for its eye-popping diversity of plants, animals and human cultures. Estimated to host one-tenth of Earth’s species, it’s the world’s second-largest island and has ...

But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest – the size of about ...

On a narrow stretch of shoreline across from the Gales Point cemetery, Jamal Galves and the rest of the team from the ...

But the recent graduate from the Mandela International Magnet School in Santa Fe has seen the creep of deforestation in the rainforest firsthand. Every few years, Wald visits her grandparents in ...

On October 20, 2022, Jeffery Nang, chief of the Rumah Jeffrey people in Malaysia, went to a community meeting and was handed a letter by a government official in Sarawak, a state on the island of ...

Five of Brazil’s six biomes saw deforestation shrink in 2024 compared to the previous year, as per data released Wednesday (May. 14) by MapBiomas, a network of NGOs, universities, and technology ...

Deforestation last year slowed in all of Brazil’s nature biomes for the first time in six years, according to a report issued months before the country hosts a major UN climate conference at the end ...

The EU Deforestation Regulation requires the European Commission to classify countries according to their risk of producing EUDR covered ...

Backing many of these efforts to slow deforestation is the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force, which California's then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger helped launch in 2008. It is the world's ...