Environmental News Bits
JUNE 6, 2025
Nestlé and ingredients processor Ofi announced last week they will invest in a regenerative agriculture partnership that will help reforest land in cocoa-growing regions devastated by clear-cutting and deforestation. The efforts are estimated to cut 1.5
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 22, 2024
These fires, often deliberately set as part of land clearing efforts for cattle or agriculture, are becoming even more intense in the face of the climate crisis and exposing millions to dangerous air pollution. The global implications of this – coupled with other tipping points across the world’s ecosystems – are staggering to contemplate.
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
For several years, headlines about Amazon deforestation have all been bad. Good news in Brazil where deforestation in the Amazon declined 66.1 For the first eight months of the year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than the same period in 2022. percent compared to last August.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. In much of the country’s agricultural heartland, soil water levels are a third of what is needed to sustain healthy crops. Reservoirs are dwindling, causing major deficits in hydroelectric power.
Frontiers
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
In the tropics, when conflict affected countries transition to peace, deforestation often increases. By looking at a range of agricultural and societal drivers at multiple scales, this research shows that different factors promote forest loss. Coca farms and cattle ranching boost deforestation.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 11, 2021
Extreme droughts affecting agriculture and ecosystems are already more frequent and intense than they were last century. Extreme droughts affecting agriculture and ecosystems are already more frequent and intense than they were last century. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. But this is no longer accurate.
New Scientist
JULY 17, 2023
Bolivia accounts for 9 per cent of all primary forest lost across the globe, and conservationists fear deforestation will only increase due to the government’s desire to expand agricultural production
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