A handful of men swarm around a coffee collection center in the city of Ciénaga, shouldering burlap sacks of coffee as they ...
Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%. The loss of vegetation leads to an increase in surface temperature, a ...
Near-real-time satellite alerts show Amazon deforestation in Brazil continuing to decline into early 2026, with clearing from August through January falling to its lowest level for that period since ...
An investigation shows that illegal luxury mansions have been built in a Sierra Leone national park that serves as an ...
Rice, maize, and cassava crops cumulatively account for approximately 11% of total global deforestation—exceeding that of cocoa, coffee, and rubber—according to an analysis between 2001 and 2022, ...
Four to five decades ago, Rwanda’s Eastern Province had significant forest cover. Once characterised by rolling hills, plains, savannahs, wetlands and grasslands, the region has since experienced ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flooding and landslides made worse by deforestation killed over 1,000 people in Sumatra last year (Yasuyoshi CHIBA) (Yasuyoshi ...
For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all bets are off. A moratorium that has protected vital ...
Spongy moths, an invasive pest credited with an average of 808,000 acres of annual deforestation in the northeastern third of the United States in recent years, has been found in Olmsted County ...
Indonesian companies targeted in a palm oil fraud probe supplied European firms including Italian energy giant Eni and ...
Analysis has found more than 3,000 mining operations within the most naturally precious areas of the planet – a much bigger footprint than previously thought ...