Deforestation

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"We can either seize the opportunity to transform our food and land use systems or frankly, sleepwalk our way into an ecological and human disaster."

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

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre, a city in Amazonas State, in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on August 24, 2019.

Pope Francis urges protection of "that lung of forests" and French President...

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

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A fire burns along a highway in a deforested section of the Amazon basin on November 23, 2014 in Ze Doca, Brazil.

"We will not watch our future burn away," said climate campaigners

#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

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

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

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

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

Federal Court Dismisses RICO and Defamation Lawsuit Against Greenpeace

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.