deforestation

A rifle resting on his shoulder, Tatji Arara looks despondent as he steps over the trunks of huge trees felled…

Under a leaden sky, six rangers walk silently in single file through Vohibola, one of the last primary forests in…

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that he wanted the country’s vast Amazon rainforest to…

A quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage, the United Nations…

Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Scientists warn that Brazil’s president-elect could push the Amazon rainforest past its tipping point — with…

  The best — and fairest — way to cap global warming is to empower indigenous forest peoples, reduce food…

Smoking and other tobacco use kills more than seven million people each year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, also…

A pair of filmmakers at the prestigious TED Conference used virtual reality to allow people to experience the ravages of…

Conservationists are urging the Indonesian government to listen to business and start taking deforestation seriously after a major paper giant…