Deforestation

Climate Movement Takes Aim at Wall Street, Because 'Money Is Only Language Fossil Fuel Industry Speaks'

Denouncing Corporate Climate Profiteers, Comedy Icon Lily Tomlin Arrested at #FireDrillFriday Protest in DC

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

This week's civil disobedience organized by Jane Fonda came as youth activists took to streets worldwide for the final #FridaysForFuture protests of the year.

Bolsonaro, Facing Blame for Surge in Amazon Deforestation, Says Destruction Won't End Because "It's Cultural"

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, seen here at the U.N. General Assembly's 74th session on Sept. 24, 2019, said Wednesday that the fires and deforestation in his country aren't coming to an end.

The Brazilian president's new comments came after data confirmed that "2019 has...

Fueling Concerns of Approaching Catastrophic 'Tipping Point,' Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon Hit Highest Level in Decade

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A fire burns trees next to grazing land in the Amazon basin in Ze Doca, Brazil. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

"These figures confirm what we feared, namely that 2019 has been a dark year...

As Fires Rage in World's Largest Rainforest, NASA Warns 'Human Activities Are Drying Out the Amazon'

Brazilians Blast Bolsonaro's UN Speech Denying Amazon Devastation as a Total 'Scam'

New Report Details 10 'Critical Transitions' to Tackle the Climate Crisis and Feed the World

As New Fires Rage in Amazon, Global Calls for Urgent Action to Avert 'Astronomical' Impacts to 'Life on Earth'

Brazil's Bolsonaro Denounced as 'Sick' and 'Pathetic' for Blaming Amazon Forest Fires on NGOs

#PrayForAmazonia Goes Viral as Twitter Users Call Attention to 'International Emergency' of Fires Devastating Brazil's Rainforest

UN Report Calls for Transforming Land Practices to Battle Hunger and 'Suffocating Blanket of Climate Emergency'

As Brazil's Bolsonaro Wages War on the Amazon, Rainforest Communities Battle Climate Emergency

Global Effort to Plant a Trillion Trees 'Overwhelmingly' Among Most Effective—and Cheapest—Solutions to Climate Emergency: Study

In Just One Decade, Corporations Destroyed 50 Million Hectares of Forest—An Area the Size of Spain

'This Is Their Land': Indigenous Activists Protest Bolsonaro's Environmental Policies in Brazil

Calling for 'Corridor of Life and Culture,' Indigenous Groups From Amazon Propose Creation of Largest Protected Area on Earth

Further

When A Tree Falls in the Forest, Tracking the Where and Why Of It

Google, the World Resources Institute and 40 other organizations have launched Global Forest Watch, a website that tracks global deforestation in near-real-time. While the site's creators hope to improve forest management, the new ability to "peer into forests" also reveals telling, but mostly discouraging stories: The world has lost over 500 million acres of forest over the last decade, akin to 50 soccer fields every minute of every day, with only a tiny fraction regrown or replanted.