This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Tropical rainforests regulate the global climate and sustain the planet’s richest biodiversity. Yet, despite more than a decade of ...

In boardrooms around the world one critical threat remains off the radar as risk managers fixate instead on geopolitical shocks, supply chain disruptions, and inflation. And that rarely prioritized ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight to climate change.

Researchers say Indonesia’s claim of a 90% deforestation drop over the past decade is misleading due to cherry-picked data and an extreme baseline year. The actual decline is closer to 50-69%, driven ...

Deforestation has reached alarming levels in Bolivia. One of the main drivers of tree cover loss – loss of the canopy – is the rise in slash-and-burn land clearance practices. Settlers often start the ...

Maize, rice and cassava drive more deforestation than major export-oriented crops like cocoa, coffee, and rubber. This has been shown by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in ...