The effect is that about 10,000 acres of rainforest are being destroyed daily, which is ultimately impacting weather patterns ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

You don't need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon's most famous resident, Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire.

BBC Radio 4 appeal will broadcast an appeal to protect rainforests on behalf of climate change charity Cool Earth. The appeal ...

In 2021, the U.K. appeared to be making serious strides against illegal deforestation when lawmakers introduced “forest risk” ...

By Fabio Zuker Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Peru last November and inaugurated the Chancay Port, a megaproject rising ...

When President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office in early 2023, environmentalists breathed a sigh of relief. After four years of environmental destruction under his far-right predecessor Jair ...

Forests are losing their carbon-absorbing power. Waiting to act will double forest-related climate costs and damage.

So, as you savor chocolate, remember the fragile ecosystems behind it. The price of cocoa in early 2025 was near its all-time high, due in part to dry conditions in Africa. Without urgent action to ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually – about a fifth of all human emissions – but their ...

Inspired by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s visit nearly two centuries ago, an isolated Indigenous community in Brazil ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion metric tons of CO2 annually—about a fifth of all human emissions—but their ...