For many Americans, chips and guacamole are as much a part of Super Bowl Sunday as the game itself. More avocados are sold ...

Major soy traders like Cargill, ADM and Bunge announced their withdrawal from the Amazon soy moratorium, a move that could increase deforestation in the biome by 30% by 2045. Behind the exodus are ...

A new study by University of Georgia researchers found that higher temperatures may make monarch butterflies more vulnerable to parasites. Since monarchs play a vital role in pollination, this could ...

A study published in Nature reveals that small areas of deforestation, often less than 5 acres (about 2 hectares), in humid tropical forests are responsible for more than half of carbon losses ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drone footage captured north of Quito on January 10 shows green areas devoid of trees as ongoing deforestation devastates the ...

The Council today formally adopted a targeted revision of the EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR), aimed at simplifying its implementation and ensuring that operators, traders and ...

European Union negotiators agreed to delay by one year a landmark law to curb deforestation across the world and soften requirements that have been criticized at home and abroad for their bureaucratic ...

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the ...

Experts, environmentalists and even government officials have pointed to the role of deforestation in Indonesia's deadly floods - Copyright AFP CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN ...