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Deforestation

New Reports Show Forests Need Far More Funding to Help the Climate, and Even Then, They Can’t Do It All

Studies show international efforts to cut carbon emissions by reducing deforestation are badly underfunded, riddled with complex problems and overwhelmed by industries that continue to cut down trees.

By Georgina Gustin

Aerial view of a cocoa field and remains of deforested trees in Colombia on November 4, 2021. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images
Seagulls flock over the recently tilled ground as a farmer prepares his field in Ruthsburg Maryland, on April 25, 2022. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

UN Report Says Humanity Has Altered 70 Percent of the Earth’s Land, Putting the Planet on a ‘Crisis Footing’

By Georgina Gustin

Aerial view showing smoke rising from an illegal fire destroying Amazonia rainforest in Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, on Sept. 15, 2021. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Is the Amazon Approaching a Tipping Point? A New Study Shows the Rainforest Growing Less Resilient

By Georgina Gustin

A view of stumps in a deforested peat natural forest on July 11, 2014 in Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Credit: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

Most Agribusinesses and Banks Involved With ‘Forest Risk’ Commodities Are Falling Down on Deforestation, Global Canopy Reports

By Georgina Gustin

Rancher Jaim Teixeira surveys the landscape at the edge of his property, near Trairão in the Brazilian state of Pará. Teixeira lit the forest on fire to clear it so he can graze his cattle, though burning primary rainforest in the Amazon is illegal. Credit: Larry Price

The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault

By Georgina Gustin

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Credit: Lula Sampaio/AFP via Getty Images

COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing

By Bob Berwyn

Smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in a section of Amazon rainforest, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil, on Aug. 15, 2020. Credit: Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images

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 Amazon Rainforest. Credit: Diego Baravelli/picture alliance via Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin

Farm workers cut a tree in the Cardamom Mountain rainforest in Cambodia in 2002. Credit: Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images

Lands Grabs and Other Destructive Environmental Practices in Cambodia Test the International Criminal Court

By Katie Surma

In Eastern California, the U.S. Forest Service is using controlled fires in Jeffrey pine forests to try and make them more resilient to climate change. Credit: Bob Berwyn

‘We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream’: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests

By Bob Berwyn

Massive deforestation in Indonesia has brought backlash to companies using palm oil

Forest-Hungry Industries Slowly Responding to Pressure About their Impacts

By Georgina Gustin

Much of the deforestation in Brazil has been driven by beef production

Beef Companies Failing in Effort to Slow Amazon Deforestation, Study Says

By Georgina Gustin

Timber from Indonesia

Forest Rescue Funds Caught in Carbon Feud

By Fiona Harvey, Guardian

Logging Road East Kalimantan

Indonesia Signs Deforestation Moratorium

By Olivia Rondonuwu, Reuters

Indonesia: Palm Oil Giant to End Deforestation

By Fiona Harvey, Guardian

New Maps Reveal Massive Forest Loss from Mountaintop Coal Mining

By Guest Writers

US Forest Report May Fuel More Deforestation in Brazil

By Stacy Feldman

Surprise Call to Close Forest Loophole Shakes Up Climate Talks in Bonn

By Stacy Feldman

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