A major international study involving researchers from The University of Manchester has found that rising global demand for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s largest meat company, JBS, has allegedly fuelled illegal deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the ...

In 2025, the world razed less forest than any other year in the last decade. The bad news: global warming is making wildfires ...

A University of Cambridge-led study warns that while Brazil’s anti-deforestation measures have slowed tree loss, they have largely failed to address forest degradation — a subtler but potentially more ...

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil more than doubled in January compared with the previous year, according to official data published Friday. More than 280 square kilometers (110 square ...

The researchers credit the slowdown to policies implemented by Brazil’s President Lula da Silva to curb deforestation.

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell 17 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to data released by Amazon Institute of People and the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency ...

In Canada, wildfires scorched 5.3 million hectares in 2025, marking the country’s second-worst fire season on record ...