By Aimee Gabay A crackdown by the Brazilian government on land-grabbers who cleared primary Amazon forest for ranching and ...

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

The report shows that the practice of clear-cutting (removing all trees from a given area) in the Brazilian Amazon led to reduced crop yields, resulting in total economic losses of around $1bn between ...

In 2025, the area deforested in the country fell below 1 million hectares in a year for the first time since 2019. A total of ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey If deforestation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazil is widely known as the world’s largest coffee producer — but what happens when it runs out of space to grow coffee? Recent ...

Deforestation is playing a greater role than researchers expected, according to a new study. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new ...

The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year — more than 20 million acres in 2024 alone, roughly the size of South Carolina. That’s bad news because ...

Deforestation is accelerating, underscoring Indonesia’s reputation as a big greenhouse gas emitter and potentially inviting more scrutiny of its commodity exports. Gross deforestation in Indonesia in ...

IT problems have led The European Commission to propose another delay to the EU’s new deforestation rules coming into force. In July, Cadbury owner Mondelez International called for a further delay to ...

The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year—more than 20 million acres in 2024 alone, roughly the size of South Carolina. Over the years, countries ...