Yale E360

JUNE 28, 2023

Indonesia and Malaysia have cut deforestation by more than half in recent years, a new report shows. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

MARCH 11, 2021

The Santa Martha territory of Peru is experiencing unprecedented deforestation as drug traffickers and land grabbers encroach. Owned by the Indigenous Cacataibo community, a majority of this 14,485-hectare territory had been officially preserved as forestland.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 8, 2024

Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon was down 50 percent, year on year, in 2023, according to government figures. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Global deforestation dropped by just 6.3 percent in 2021, leaving the world off track from its goals of ending forest loss by 2030 and limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C, according to a new report. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2024

If trading mechanisms allow carbon emissions from one area to be offset by afforestation or reduced rates of deforestation, the climate is better off. Meanwhile, deforestation continues apace and greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise toward irreversible tipping points. Only the Congo, however, is still a net carbon sink.

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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. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 27, 2024

This growth, which marks a return of trees to the region after centuries of deforestation, is fueling a new surge in wildfires, a study finds. Trees and shrubs have proliferated in unmanaged forests in the eastern U.S. Read more on E360

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Indonesian government has announced a major expansion of a program to make biodiesel out of palm oil, a move that officials say would necessitate planting 37 million acres of new palm oil plantations — an area one-fifth the size of Borneo. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The growing market for rubber is a major, but largely overlooked, cause of tropical deforestation, new analysis shows. Most of the rubber goes to produce tires, more than 2 billion a year, and experts warn the transition to electric vehicles could accelerate rubber use. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Increasing fire, drought, and deforestation continue to push the region closer to a “ tipping point where it can no longer survive as a rainforest.” The global implications of this – coupled with other tipping points across the world’s ecosystems – are staggering to contemplate.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But some countries have reduced deforestation rates, and actions such as trade reform could yet turn the tide The world is going “in the wrong direction” on forests, say campaigners.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

The new tracking service will help the cocoa and coffee industry comply with the EU’s recently released rules on regulating deforestation.

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Cool Green Science

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

New science estimates that heat increases caused by deforestation are killing more than 100 people per year in Berau, Indonesia. The post Deforestation Is Killing Workers in Tropical Countries appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Earthava

AUGUST 27, 2024

The post What Are The Causes of Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest? The Amazon rainforest, Earth’s largest tropical forest, faces a serious threat from deforestation. Cattle ranching is the biggest cause of deforestation in the Amazon, accounting for about 80% of forest loss. appeared first on Earthava.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

With his return as Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is promising to reverse the alarming rate of deforestation in the Amazon. But as he heads to key UN climate talks, his ambitious plans to achieve “zero deforestation” will need to find international support. Read more on E360 ?.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In recent decades, cattle grazing has accounted for around two-thirds of deforestation in Brazil, with ranchers clearing forest to create pastures. Halting climate change demands not only stopping deforestation, but reversing it, for instance, by turning pastures back into woodlands.

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Earthava

JULY 3, 2024

The post How Does Deforestation Affect Animals: Impacts and Consequences appeared first on Earthava. Deforestation is a critical issue that affects the world and its wildlife. It disrupts the habitats of countless animals, making it difficult for them to find food and shelter.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

For more than a decade of leadership and innovation, member states and provinces of the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force have been developing strategies, programs, investment plans, and new legal structures to address tropical deforestation, embark on a low-emissions development path, and benefit their populations and the climate.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

In the tropics, when conflict affected countries transition to peace, deforestation often increases. The consequences of peace and armed conflict for deforestation depend on the location, reports a new publication in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Coca farms and cattle ranching boost deforestation.

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Yale E360

APRIL 14, 2023

Since 2012, more than half of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon occurred on private lands, according to a new study highlighting the impact of Brazil's landowner-friendly policies. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

JANUARY 12, 2023

In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , he talks about his new book, which explores the complex web of issues underpinning the deforestation of the world’s largest rainforest. Journalist Heriberto Araujo spent four years reporting on the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon. Read more on E360 →.

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Yale E360

APRIL 15, 2021

Despite pledges of reform, the world’s leading supermarket and fast-food companies are doing little to address the environmental and human rights abuses associated with beef production. Read more on E360 ?.

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Inhabitant

AUGUST 23, 2021

A new report by Brazilian research institute Imazon shows that the Amazon forest has experienced the highest level of annual deforestation in a decade. Despite global calls for action, poor policies championed by President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil have contributed to increased deforestation.

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Inhabitant

JULY 1, 2021

The harpy eagle, one of the world's largest eagles, has almost "zero" chances of surviving if Amazon deforestation continues.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 9, 2021

A pilot program reveals that deforestation declined when Peruvian Indigenous communities use an early-alert-system app to detect forest loss. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Inhabitant

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Last week at COP26 in Glasgow, 100 countries, including Brazil, pledged to reverse deforestation by 2030. In fact, the latest numbers are the second most appalling since scientists began measuring deforestation. However, recent figures for October show that Brazil is nowhere near protecting the Amazon rainforest.

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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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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. After a decade of dry conditions, a drought in Brazil is straining the country’s economy, energy systems, and environment. Reservoirs are dwindling, causing major deficits in hydroelectric power.

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Inhabitant

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

More than 100 leaders from around the world pledged to reverse deforestation by 2030, in what's being lauded as the first big achievement of COP26. Countries are backing up their promise with more than $19 billion in public and private funds.

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 14, 2023

Stand.earth alleges that Cargill, the nation’s largest privately-held company and the world’s largest agribusiness company , has failed to keep pledges on eliminating deforestation from its supply chains.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 12, 2022

They haven’t made commitments to stop deforestation related to beef, soy, palm oil and timber, and many of those that have aren’t following through.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 16, 2021

The end of Colombia's civil war in 2016 unwittingly caused an increase in deforestation across the country as Marxist guerrillas no longer protect the land

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new study finds that deforestation is causing more intense storms along West Africa’s coast. A new study finds that storms are hitting coastal West Africa twice as frequently as 30 years ago, mainly due to deforestation. Urban growth and an increased demand for land has led to mass deforestation in major cities in West Africa.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Deforestation in the Amazon decreased significantly (by over 70%) during Lula’s last two terms, while it jumped (about 60%) under President Bolsonaro. Expectations so far are optimistic.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

Reuters reports that the move comes ahead of the annual burning season in the Amazon rainforest in an attempt to cut down on deforestation. The post The Stream, July 1, 2021: Brazil Bans Outdoor Fires To Curb Deforestation In Amazon appeared first on Circle of Blue. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. 8800 RESIDENTS.

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Inhabitant

MAY 28, 2021

The UK Parliament is discussing a bill that demands traceability from food brands and fines those that sell products linked to stolen and deforested land.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Does it finance coal or wind power, deforestation or ecological recovery? Follow the money. Whatever politicians promise, what matters is where investment goes.

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