Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Brazil and COP30 A Reuters investigation by Brad Haynes, Jackie Botts, Ricardo Brito, and Jake Spring finds that many voluntary carbon credit projects meant to conserve forests in Brazil are also profiting people and businesses fined by Brazilian authorities for destroying the rainforest.

Climate Change

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.

Rainforest

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

It travels north along the Mahakam River, and two days later arrives in the central highlands of Borneo’s ancient rainforests. The Dayak-Bahau man had been arrested for protesting the mass deforestation of his ancestral lands, Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which account for six percent of the world’s biodiversity.

Rainforest

Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

The geography is extremely diverse, featuring high mountains, deserts, and rainforest. Rising temperature and lower rainfall will require a shift in agriculture, and impacts in urban areas may be severe. About three-quarters of emissions come from the energy sector, half of the rest from agriculture.

Paris Agreement

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.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Though its northern and central regions are lush with tropical weather and rainforests, the south is historically dry, comprising vast desert stretches. The east African nation of Madagascar is a large, biodiverse island that spans the equivalent length of Florida to the Canadian border.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A new report finds that up to 85 percent of threatened animal and plant species have had their habitat damaged by mining, agriculture or logging.

Deforestation

Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Amazon Rainforest. Few places are as evocative of biodiversity as the Amazon Rainforest, a region of South America that occupies just 0.5% Roughly 1,300 bird species call the Amazon Rainforest their home, as do more than 3,000 species of fishes and countless primates, butterflies, orchids, frogs and more. Lukas Musher/ANS.

Rainforest

Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro bans outdoor fires ahead of the burning season in the Amazon rainforest. Reuters reports that the move comes ahead of the annual burning season in the Amazon rainforest in an attempt to cut down on deforestation. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. 8800 RESIDENTS.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But these good news developments are hardly irreversible, and they follow years of destruction to the world’s tropical forests thanks to logging, agriculture, and development. The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021.

Deforestation

Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

Nebraska agriculture is a behemoth. In the past year, officials in England recorded 391 violations of water pollution farms implemented more than four years ago to keep agricultural contamination under control. More than nine out of every 10 acres in the 49.5 million-acre state is given over to farms and ranches. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

2022

Frontiers

MARCH 15, 2022

Even I, as a geographer, was terrified reading all the headlines that seemed to imply that the last patch of the Amazonian rainforest was on fire, which was not true.”. Forest loss was defined as the removal of woody vegetation over 5 meters in height.

2001

Circle of Blue

JUNE 30, 2021

National Geographic reports that local agroforestry cooperative in Brazil called RECA could become a model for agriculture in Brazil—one that requires far less land than cattle ranching, preserves biodiversity, protects soil and water, and sequesters carbon in its trees, mitigating climate change.

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PBS Nature

JUNE 12, 2023

Decades of war and unsustainable agriculture have stripped almost half the trees from the rainforest atop Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa. The devastation threatens the watershed that sustains life in nearby communities and in Gorongosa National Park.

Rainforest

PBS Nature

JUNE 12, 2023

Decades of war and unsustainable agriculture have stripped almost half the trees from the rainforest atop Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa. The devastation threatens the watershed that sustains life in nearby communities and in Gorongosa National Park.

Rainforest

Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario. Bolsonaro ).

Rainforest

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It was about creating a sustainable future that empowers indigenous communities, the true custodians of the rainforest. Still, in recent years illegal loggers, irresponsible farmers, and gold miners have begun to deforest large rainforest areas in pursuit of short-term profit.

Deforestation

Washington Nature

MAY 13, 2022

It runs through the Emerald Edge , the coastal rainforest that runs from Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington, and is the world’s largest producer of sockeye salmon and the largest producer Southern Resident Killer Whales’ preferred prey – Chinook salmon.

Rainforest

A Greener Life

MARCH 31, 2024

Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace Netherlands protests against Rabobank’s agricultural policies in the Dutch city of Utrecht last year. Photo credit: Marten van Dijl / Greenpeace.

Rainforest

Frontiers

JULY 27, 2022

Globally, 80’000 acres of rainforest disappear each day. In fact, over two-thirds of our world’s tropical forests have been lost to rampant deforestation for logging, mining, and agriculture. However, the reality is that from 2001 to 2020, Switzerland lost 40.3kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.6%

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HumanNature

MARCH 9, 2024

Written by Bella Conrad The School of Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University invited Eduardo Brondízio, an anthropologist, to speak at the Lory Student Center on February 27 about place-based actions for sustainability in the Amazon rainforest. This is not only about Amazonia,” Brondízio said. This is about global change.”

Rainforest

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

by world leaders regarding the Bolsonaro administration’s inaction to prevent or stop the burning of the Amazon rainforest—. Furthermore, the mass-burning of the Amazon rainforest is emitting incredible amounts of carbon, multiplying the effect of deforestation by. relies on subsistence or cash-crop based agriculture.

Conservation

Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 3, 2024

The complaint figuratively and literally has the New York State government coming for your cheeseburger when it alleges, “Beef has the highest total greenhouse gas emissions of any major food commodity, and beef production is linked to large-scale deforestation, especially in the Amazon rainforest, which further drives climate change by releasing greenhouse (..)

Greenhouse

HumanNature

MARCH 16, 2021

million acres of primary rainforest and shrubland rich with biodiversity, and until recently relied on a combination of routine patrolling, Google Earth, and reports from a network of community-based organizations. Take Sri Lanka’s Department of Forest Conservation. The department is responsible for monitoring 3.5

Technology

Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

The environmental issue addressed here is that certain agricultural practices, like converting forests to ranchland, release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and severely disrupt ecosystems. In addition to carbon sequestration, tropical rainforests help to regulate the global temperature by. come from deforestation.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While everything is connected to our ecosystems, and our oceans and rainforests are essential, people are most impacted and vital. Rising temperatures impact agriculture, farmers, and our food systems. Fossil fuel emissions lead to poor air quality and increased air pollution which in turn are harmful to health.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

billion fund to protect the Congo Basin, the home to the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world which is threatened by industrial logging, mining and agriculture. The UK will also contribute £200m, alongside 11 other donors, as part of a new £1.1

Deforestation

ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

SEEC Climate and Agriculture Task Force releases recommendations for a Climate-Friendly Farm Bill – Rep. Brazil, Indonesia and Congo Sign Rainforest Protection Pact – The New York Times. Multiorganization Letter of Support for Agricultural Research Appropriations (Oct. Research spending could be lone bright spot for U.S.

2022

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

In response to my claim that “Preventing future pandemics requires more — not less — ‘industrial’ agriculture” Kasprak quotes a scientist who notes, “To the extent that agricultural intensification reduces pressure on wildlands, it can help reduce risk of future pandemics.” But his point is irrelevant. The question is how.

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

Wolf For Taking A Serious Step On Climate Change -- PA Cap-Star Guest Essay: Joining RGGI Will Strengthen PA’s Recovery - National Assn. Trillion Spending Package -- Bloomberg: Democrats Propose Tax On Carbon-Intensive Imports In Budget Deal -- Utility Dive: U.S.

Air Pollution

A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Across its islands, Indonesia has the third-largest area of primary rainforest in the world. Among the 26 countries investigated, this accounted for 58.2% of direct forest loss by mining, making Indonesia the most affected by far. In 2021, the country produced 610 million tons of coal, half of which was exported, at a value of US$29.6

Deforestation

Circle of Blue

JULY 2, 2021

According to the Sydney Morning Herald , the report warned that impacts from climate change will include the drying of tropical rainforests, and more frequent and intense heat waves and floods. Why it matters: Water pollution from agricultural runoff is dividing small communities across the United States.

2021

Edouard Stenger

JUNE 13, 2023

The situation is pretty dramatic in Brazil where the Amazon rainforest may reach a tipping point. Change agriculture and the way we eat Wasting less food and eating much less meat are two very powerful ways to slow down and halt climate change. Clear cutting land to cultivate palm oil to produce ultra processed food for the North.

Wind Power

Science Blogs

APRIL 29, 2019

Another study from the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research program site in the Puerto Rican rainforest reproduced an insect survey from the 1970s. Most of the insects for which this information exists are species that are important for agricultural or human health, such as managed honey bees or mosquitoes.

Rainforest

Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

Chance to work with the intergovernmental Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the World Health Organization, the UN Food, and Agriculture Organization, and the World Organization for Animal Health. MS: Have we been too focused on climate too much when we should have focused on deforestation and the expansion of agriculture into forests?

Deforestation

Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Palm oil for Nestlé: more than 1,000 cases of deforestation per day Rainforest Rescue | October 22, 2020 In 2010, Nestlé gave itself ten years to switch to 100% deforestation-free palm oil. Industry Agriculture, Beverages & Food Headquarters Switzerland Tax Havens & Evasion Brazil: Nestlé is fined R$3.2

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