Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazil is widely known as the world’s largest coffee producer — but what happens when it runs out of space to grow coffee? Recent ...

Everyday foods are emerging as key drivers of global deforestation, with impacts spread across many countries rather than a few hotspots.

A major carbon credit program may reward deforestation instead of reducing it, raising new concerns about the integrity of ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon drove roughly three-quarters of the region’s dry-season rainfall decline between 1985 ...

Curbing deforestation in the Amazon Region as a whole is no longer a task for national policies; it requires integrated policies and articulated actions to value the standing forest. During the past ...

A comprehensive study links commodity production to 121.8 M hectares of deforestation, emphasizing the need for better ...

Mention the risks of leather production in Brazil, and thoughts naturally turn to issues involving illegal deforestation for raising cattle in the Amazon, one of the world’s biggest beef providers.

(THE CONVERSATION) The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year — more than 20 million acres in 2024 alone, roughly the size of South Carolina. Over ...