Western Firms Certified as Socially Responsible Trade in Myanmar Teak Linked to the Military Regime Records show how environmental certification firms and middlemen legitimize deals that start with Myanmar’s brutal junta and end as yacht decks. By Scilla Alecci and Jelena Cosic
How Auditing Giant KPMG Became a Global Sustainability Leader While Serving Companies Accused of Forest Destruction By Scilla Alecci
Environmental Auditors Approve Green Labels for Products Linked to Deforestation and Authoritarian Regimes By Scilla Alecci
Study Documents a Halt to Deforestation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest After Indigenous Communities Gain Title to Their Territories By Katie Surma
At COP27, the US Said It Will Lead Efforts to Halt Deforestation. But at Home, the Biden Administration Is Considering Massive Old Growth Logging Projects By Bob Berwyn
New Reports Show Forests Need Far More Funding to Help the Climate, and Even Then, They Can’t Do It All By Georgina Gustin
UN Report Says Humanity Has Altered 70 Percent of the Earth’s Land, Putting the Planet on a ‘Crisis Footing’ By Georgina Gustin
Is the Amazon Approaching a Tipping Point? A New Study Shows the Rainforest Growing Less Resilient By Georgina Gustin
Most Agribusinesses and Banks Involved With ‘Forest Risk’ Commodities Are Falling Down on Deforestation, Global Canopy Reports By Georgina Gustin
The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault By Georgina Gustin
COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing By Bob Berwyn
In the Amazon, the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Fire and Deforestation By Georgina Gustin
Trees Fell Faster in the Years Since Companies and Governments Promised to Stop Cutting Them Down By Georgina Gustin
Lands Grabs and Other Destructive Environmental Practices in Cambodia Test the International Criminal Court By Katie Surma
‘We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream’: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests By Bob Berwyn