Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

The likelihood that you use products with palm oil is pretty high: the ingredient is in half of all products on supermarket shelves, in everything from ice cream and lipstick to shampoo and laundry ...

Farmers in north-central Brazil, where the savanna meets the Amazon rainforest, are clearing land at an unprecedented rate. The government hasn’t stopped the cutting, partly because it is using ...

Initiated by JDE Peet’s, a part of Keurig Dr Pepper, the newly launched Partnership aims to create what will be the first comprehensive, openly-accessible map of global coffee production, helping ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Deforestation globally increased by 4% in 2022 over 2021, with over 6.6m hectares of forest lost AI enables prediction of ...

An international team of researchers in Colombia, the UK, US and Switzerland have developed the first ever system to monitor deforestation across Latin America in near real-time using satellite data ...

Online map reveals link between deforestation and rises in tropical temperatures Deforestation is leading to temperature increases of up to 5°C in some tropical regions, according to data revealed in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Maria is an energy economist, focussing on the role of business. Clearing the forest destroys for ever the fragile equilibrium of ...

Scientists have long known that countries in the tropics are cutting down their rain forests and digging up peatlands to make room for agriculture — and at a rapid rate. These trees and soil contain ...

The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation ...