Deforestation

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

Mil Milhas na Amazônia, para Mudar a Maneira como o Mundo Funciona

By Katie Surma

Study Shows Protected Forests Are Cooler

By Bob Berwyn

A Thousand Miles in the Amazon, to Change the Way the World Works

By Katie Surma

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

The Best Protection For Forests? The People Who Live In Them.

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