For decades, Earth’s forests, wetlands and soils quietly mopped up a huge share of the carbon pollution from cars, power ...

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

The amount of rainfall in the southern Amazon basin has declined by 8 to 11 per cent since 1980, largely due to the impact of ...

Deforestation remains one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. From accelerating climate change to threatening biodiversity and disrupting local communities, the loss of forests ...

The study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, found that deforestation and unplanned land use act as a "silent amplifier" of heat, worsening heatwaves beyond greenhouse-gas effects, the ...

A coalition of pension funds and insurance companies holding a combined $9.5 trillion of assets has called on investors to ensure their portfolios aren’t supporting or enabling deforestation. The ...

Earth has entered a grim new climate reality. The planet has officially passed its first climate tipping point. Relentlessly rising heat in the oceans has now pushed corals around the world past their ...