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Replanting oil palm may be driving a second wave of biodiversity loss
Rufous-backed dwarf kingfisher habitat is lost when forests are cleared for oil palm plantations© Muhammad Syafiq YahyaThe environmental impact of palm oil production has been well publicised. Found in...
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Jair Bolsonaro wants to deforest the Amazon – what powers does the UN have to...
Tarcisio Schnaider / shutterstockDeforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil is at its highest rate in a decade, according to new satellite data. This comes after president Jair Bolsonaro has...
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Amazon fires are destructive, but they aren’t depleting Earth’s oxygen supply
Fire consumes an area near Jaci Parana, state of Rondonia, Brazil, Aug. 24, 2019.AP Photo/Eraldo PeresFires in the Amazon rainforest have captured attention worldwide in August. Brazilian President...
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Palm oil: research shows that new plantations produce double the emissions of...
Tropical peat swamps like this are being cleared at record rates. Jamikorn Sooktaramorn/ ShutterstockTropical peat swamps are not only the native habitat of orangutans and sun bears, they’re also one...
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Amazon trees write autobiographies – preserving human history in their wood
A Brazil nut tree in Jaú National Park, Amazonas, Brazil.Victor Caetano-AndradeTropical forests are one of the world’s largest carbon stores and they help regulate the global climate. But they’re being...
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Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope
Collecting firewood on the Waiapi indigenous reserve in Amapa state, Brazil, Oct. 13, 2017. A new bill could open Brazil's Native lands to development. APU GOMES/AFP via Getty ImagesBrazil’s divisive...
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Dung beetles help rainforests regrow – but extreme drought and wildfires in...
An Amazon forest in Brazil's Para state after deforestation and wildfires March 9, 2019. Unlike in some tropical forests, the animals of the Amazon are not adapted to survive fire.Gustavo...
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Gold mining leaves deforested Amazon land barren for years, find scientists
An abandoned gold mine in the Guyana rainforest. kakteen / shutterstockTravel through the rainforest in Guyana, in northern South America, and you’ll often hear the indigenous adage: “a forest has no...
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Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian lands are under greater threat in Brazil during...
There are more than 3,600 territories in Brazil that are home to Quilombola, descendants of escaped slaves, but few hold titles to the land.(Elielson Pereira da Silva), Author providedThe far...
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How palm oil became the world’s most hated, most used fat source
Oil palm fruit in North Aceh, Indonesia.Fachrul Reza / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Palm oil is everywhere today: in food, soap, lipstick, even newspaper ink. It’s been called the world’s most hated...
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Cut less, leave longer: decades of data show we are over-exploiting tropical...
We are logging more than can be sustained by tropical forests. Plinio Sist, Fourni par l'auteurTropical rainforests currently cover 1070 million hectares of the world’s surface. More than 90% of them...
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A forgotten mangrove forest around remote inland lagoons in Mexico’s Yucatan...
A stand of red mangroves in the calm, calcium-rich, fresh waters of the San Pedro Mártir River, Tabasco, Mexico.Ben Meissner, CC BY-NDThe San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the...
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Organized crime is a top driver of global deforestation – along with beef,...
Fires burn off forest cover and natural grasses to create cattle pasture in the Maya forest in Guatemala.Jennifer Devine, CC BY-NDEvery year the world loses an estimated 25 million acres (10 million...
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Mangroves are disappearing – we read 200 scientific papers to find out why
Remains of deforested mangroves in Malaysia.NOOR RADYA BINTI MD RADZI / shutterstockMangrove forests look much like the coastal cousins of inland forests, but you cannot miss their tangled prop roots...
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Ending Amazon deforestation: 4 essential reads about the future of the...
A burnt area in Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 21, 2022. Fires in the Amazon are often set to clear land.Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty ImagesBrazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was...
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How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental...
Over 8,000 satellites are orbiting Earth today, capturing images like this, of the Louisiana coast.NASA Earth ObservatoryIf you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a...
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