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A Greener Life
JULY 6, 2025
Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. Deforestation decline in the Amazon Deforestation in the Amazon has reached a nine-year low, with a significant 30.6% decrease compared to the previous year.
Frontiers
JULY 27, 2022
When people think of Switzerland, deforestation and destruction of ecosystems doesn’t really come to mind. However, the reality is that from 2001 to 2020, Switzerland lost 40.3kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.6% Deforestation also releases millions of tons of stored carbon, disrupting our already fragile climate.
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A Greener Life
JANUARY 20, 2023
Coal extraction in Indonesia is done with open-pit mining, hence the deforestation,” says Syahrul Fitra, a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. The main destination for this coal was China, with 99.2
A Greener Life
APRIL 9, 2023
The Ayoreo people live in the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay, where protected land has been drastically deforested in recent decades. The Global Witness report builds on the “ Grand Theft Chaco ” investigations released by UK-based nonprofit Earthsight in 2020, in which both companies were named.
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
1] I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and author of the 2020 book on the environment, Apocalypse Never , published by HarperCollins. I will make four points in my testimony: 1. 3] Max Roser et al.,
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
In 2001, the Clinton administration enacted the Roadless Rule , which banned road-building and timber harvesting in certain forested areas, including much of the Tongass. In 2020, the Trump administration announced the policy’s reversal. The USDA’s decision is a reversal of a reversal.
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