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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

The Cacique Nelson, of the tribe of Guaranis, walks in a deforested area of the old Atlantic Forest on Jan. 26, 2017. Credit: Diego Herculano/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Study Documents a Halt to Deforestation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest After Indigenous Communities Gain Title to Their Territories

By Katie Surma

A recently logged patch of woods on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest on April 1, 2022 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

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

Blanca Chancosa, juíza do Tribunal Internacional dos Direitos da Natureza e líder indígena equatoriana, examina parte da maior mina de minério de ferro do mundo, de propriedade da gigante brasileira de mineração Vale, em 23 de julho de 2022. Crédito: Katie Surma

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

By Katie Surma

New research shows that protected forests with dense canopies are warming more slowly than nearby forests without protection, which buffers plant and animals living near the ground from global warming impacts. Photo Credit: Bob Berwyn

Study Shows Protected Forests Are Cooler

By Bob Berwyn

Blanca Chancosa, a judge with the International Rights of Nature tribunal and an Ecuadorian Indigenous leader, looks into part of the world's largest iron ore mine owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale on July 23, 2022. Credit: Katie Surma

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

By Katie Surma

Aerial view of a cocoa field and remains of deforested trees in Colombia on November 4, 2021. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin

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

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