The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, government figures show. Officials credit ...

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 ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%.

Permits revoked, lawsuits filed, the threat of state takeovers. Several dozen companies have had their permits revoked, and the government will reportedly hand management of around a million hectares ...

An investigation shows that illegal luxury mansions have been built in a Sierra Leone national park that serves as an ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is making the region hotter and drier, with less rainfall as the forest loses its ability to ...

A new study reveals that the Brazilian Amazon produces rainfall worth about $20 billion per year to regional agriculture.

Health and environmental groups in the US have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in “an effort to combat its repeal of a landmark climate finding” ...

McDonald’s joins Responsible Commodities Facility to fund deforestation-free soy, cutting supply chain risk and strengthening ...

Copince Ngoma, a member of the Bakouele Indigenous community, has relied on the lush green Congo Basin rainforest his whole ...

A new WWF report, From Past to Future: How Business-as-Usual Cocoa Drives Forest Loss and What We Can Do, reveals that cocoa cultivation, long associated with deforestation in West Africa, is now ...

Brazil is widely known as the world’s largest coffee producer — but what happens when it runs out of space to grow coffee? Recent reports suggest that coffee farming in Brazil is driving deforestation ...