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ESA's Biomass on track to target forests
Nov 16, 2021 (ESA)
The COP26 pledge on deforestation and degradation from over 100 leaders representing more than 85% of the world's forests is clearly good news in the battle to ...
Amazon deforestation hits monthly record in Brazil
Nov 12, 2021 (AFP)
An area more than half the size of the city of Rio de Janeiro -- 877 square kilometers (339 square miles) -- of Amazon's lush rainforest was cleared, the larges...
Deforestation drives increasingly deadly heat in Indonesia: study
Nov 11, 2021 (AFP)
The report published in the Lancet Planetary Health gives a rare insight into how global warming and deforestation can affect people living in one of the world'...
Climate change and fires: Bolivia's forests in peril
Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)
It is a protected area, but San Matias -- which also hosts subsistence farmers, cattle ranches and quartz mines -- burns every year as land is cleared for the n...
Damaged Amazon rainforest teetering on the brink
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
Holed up in her lab, Brazilian atmospheric chemist Luciana Gatti crunches her numbers again and again, thinking there is a mistake. But the same bleak conclusio...
The Amazon: a paradise lost?
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
Endless, that is, until it isn't. Fly toward the edges of the world's biggest rainforest, and you will come to the vast brown scar tissue, the places where the ...
'We can't live in a world without the Amazon': scientist
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
AFP asked the 38-year-old Brazilian to break down the latest research on the Amazon and what it means for us all. - There are lots of headlines on the destructi...
Amazon deforestation threatens jaguars, giant eagles
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
A thousand kilometers (600 miles) to the north, at the rapidly receding edge of the Amazon rainforest, conservationist Roberto Eduardo Stofel peers through his ...
New gold rush fuels Amazon destruction
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
The 61-year-old grandfather of six had planned to retire from illegal mining, and the environmental destruction that comes along with it. He bought this farm in...
From the Amazon to Scotland, forest leaders united in hope
Nov 07, 2021 (AFP)
Delicately, the chieftain packs earth around the base of the stem with his hands and caresses the budding branches. Then, joined by fellow Latin American indige...
How climate change is muting America's famous fall foliage
Nov 07, 2021 (AFP)
Warmer temperatures and heavier rainfall are keeping leaves greener for longer while extreme weather events like heatwaves and storms are stripping trees bare b...
Mud, anger and police -- the battle over Canada's old-growth forests
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
Working in relays to ensure activists are present at all times, they've faced off against police armed with court injunctions and sometimes heavy-handed tactics...
Indonesia walks back zero-deforestation pledge at COP26
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
The nations agreed on the multi-billion-dollar plan at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow this week to stop cutting down trees on an industrial scale in un...
The women guarding India's rainforest 'refugees'
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
The region is home to at least 325 globally threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish species but the International Union for the Conservation ...
Poland's 'priceless' primeval forest pits environmentalists against state
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
"The trees here were born when the United States did not exist yet, when electricity had not been invented," said the journalist, who moved to a village in the ...
COP26 leaders vow new drive to save forests
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
According to summit hosts the British government, the pledge is backed by almost $20 billion in public and private funding and is endorsed by more than 100 lead...
Brazil plans combative strategy for climate talks
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
Vice President Hamilton Mourao, an army general who is Bolsonaro's point man on the Amazon, said Brazil would use the "weapons of diplomacy" to protect what the...
Deployment of giant reflector for forest monitoring satellite Biomass
Oct 25, 2021 (SPX)
Chris Lloyd, Biomass Project Manager at Airbus Defence and Space said: "Successful deployment of the largest Earth observation reflector is a major move forward...
Blinken, in Colombia, unveils Amazon deforestation pact
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
On a visit to Colombia weeks before a high-stakes UN climate summit in Glasgow, Blinken toured a greenhouse in Bogota's botanical gardens where he saw US-backed...
Ashes from Amazon transformed into city mural to raise climate awareness
Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)
The giant 1,000-square meter fresco titled "The Forest Firefighter" -- featuring a heroic figure who is helpless in the face of a raging fire -- will be inaugur...
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