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

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

Alexander Zaitchik

Amazon rainforest

"We know what happens when the state does nothing. We know how quickly the forest can disappear."

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"We have solutions ready to go; we're just missing the political will to act."

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Amazon basin

"These companies are destroying our children's future by driving us towards...

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

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

Urging Multi-Pronged Effort to Halt Climate Crisis, Scientists Say Protecting World's Forests as Vital as Cutting Emissions

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As 'Unprecedented Flooding Havoc' Kills Hundreds in Kerala, Indian Scientist Decries 'Man-Made Disaster'

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Terrifying Trends Collide as Surging Deforestation 'Making World a Hotter, Drier Place'

"Humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperiled biosphere," over 15,000 scientists warned in a letter published Monday. (Photo: NASA)

Over 15,000 Scientists Just Issued a 'Second Notice' to Humanity. Can We Listen Now?

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Federal Court Dismisses RICO and Defamation Lawsuit Against Greenpeace

Mexican Goldman Environmentalist Prize Winner Killed in Latest Attack on Latin American Activists

The Fort McMurray Fire: 'Absolutely a Harbinger of Things to Come'

'On Borrowed Time': Humans Putting One in Five Plant Species at Risk of Extinction

These Six Environmental Heroes are Changing the World. Find Out How.

Indonesia's Deforestation-Fueled Wildfires May Be World's Worst Climate Crisis

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Greenpeace

Tens of Thousands Rally to Demand a German Coal Phase-Out

Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Adopts New Sourcing Policy on Wood-Based Fabrics

Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

NGOs Demand Olympic Authorities End Rainforest Destruction and Human Rights Abuses Connected to Tokyo 2020 Olympics Construction

Amazon Watch

Tested, Cost-effective, and Practical: Secure Community Land Rights Can Help Protect the Earth and Prevent the Climate Crisis

Worldwatch Institute

Evidence Links Family Planning with Improved Environmental Outcomes

Greenpeace

Brazilian Soy Moratorium Renewed Indefinitely

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Pablo Pacheco

The Need for a Climate Action Plan That Puts Forests Front and Center Is Clearer Than Ever

Andrew Bacevich

The Great Reckoning: A Look Back from Mid-Century

Robin Chazdon

Experts Mapped Global Hotspots Where Restoring Tropical Rainforests Would Be Most Beneficial and Least Costly and Risky

Dominique Mosbergen

We Need to Talk About Palm Oil

Andy Rowell

From Ophelia to the Amazon: the Unthinkable Becomes Thinkable

Benjamin Dangl

How Top Food Companies Fail to Protect Environmental Activists in Supply Chains

Sue Branford, Maurício Torres

Temer Signs Law That Could See Millions of Acres Lost in the Amazon

GRAIN

20 Years of GM Soy in the Southern Cone of Latin America, 20 Reasons for a Definitive Ban

Dawn Bickett

Eight Ways People are Fighting for Forests this International Day of Forests

GRAIN, Attac Gabon

REDD+ and Carbon Trading Will Not Resolve the Climate Crisis