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Deforestation

The Maya Forest Corridor is a 2.5 mile-wide stretch of forest, wetlands and savanna that connects the jungles of southern Belize with forests in the north and in Guatemala and Mexico. Together, this Selva Maya is the largest tropical forest north of the Amazon. Credit: Kevin Quischan

Can Carbon Offsets Save a Fragile Band of Belize’s Tropical Rainforest?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Recently cut timber in a forest near Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Most Countries are Falling Short of Their Promises to Stop Cutting Down the World’s Trees

By Georgina Gustin

Protestors demonstrating against the Bolivian government.

Agribusiness Giant Cargill Is in Activists’ Crosshairs for Its Connections to Deforestation in Bolivia

By Georgina Gustin

In a file photo, a Cargill facility on the Tapajos River in Santarem, a town on the trans-Amazonian highyway, in Brazil's Para state. Credit: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images.

Activist Group ‘Names and Shames’ Cargill and Its Heirs to Keep Deforestation Promises

By Georgina Gustin

This clear-cutting in March in Hoosier National Forest, captured by drone, is taking place in Crawford County in southern Indiana, just south of an even larger project the Forest Service is planning in an area it calls Buffalo Springs. Photo courtesy of Robbie Heinrich

Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest

By Marianne Lavelle

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

Most Federal Forest is Mature and Old Growth. Now the Question Is Whether to Protect It

By Marianne Lavelle

Custer Gallatin National Forest includes hundreds of glaciers as well as pine savannas. The Forest Service plans logging about 90 miles south of Fairy Lake in the Bridger Mountains, pictured. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Logging Plan on Yellowstone’s Border Shows Limits of Biden Greenhouse Gas Policy

By Marianne Lavelle

Western Firms Certified as Socially Responsible Trade in Myanmar Teak Linked to the Military Regime

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

Timm Martin points out areas that are part of the Jellico Vegetation Management proposal to clear cut and log on 10.000 acres inside the Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

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

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