deforestation

Can the Smallest Wild Cat in the Americas Survive?

Can the Smallest Wild Cat in the Americas Survive?

By Niki Rust The smallest wild cat species in the Americas faces big problems as its habitat dwindles and it’s targeted as a farm pest. But a new study shows it may be able to persist in a human-dominated world—if farmers and policymakers give it a hand. The güiña (Leopardus guigna), also known as kodkod, […]

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    The Palm Oil Industry Promises Reform, But There’s Still No Sign of Change

    The Palm Oil Industry Promises Reform, But There’s Still No Sign of Change

    It was 10 years ago that Greenpeace first published an investigation into Indonesia’s palm oil industry. We showed that the world’s biggest brands got their palm oil from companies destroying Indonesia’s rainforests—threatening local people as well as tigers and orangutans. As people learned the truth about their shampoo, cosmetics and chocolate bars, brands and their […]

    Chocolate Makers Agree to Stop Cutting Down Forests in West Africa for Cocoa

    Chocolate Makers Agree to Stop Cutting Down Forests in West Africa for Cocoa

    By Mike Gaworecki At COP23, the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany that wrapped up last week, top cocoa-producing countries in West Africa announced new commitments to end the massive deforestation for cocoa that is occurring within their borders. Ivory Coast and Ghana are the number one and number two cocoa-producing nations on Earth, respectively. […]

    $2 Billion Investment in Forest Restoration Announced at COP23

    $2 Billion Investment in Forest Restoration Announced at COP23

    By Mike Gaworecki Last Thursday, at the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany (known as COP23), the World Resources Institute (WRI) announced that $2.1 billion in private investment funds have been committed to efforts to restore degraded lands in the Caribbean and Latin America. The investments will be made through WRI’s Initiative 20×20, which has […]

    15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Warn Humanity of Environmental Catastrophe

    15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Warn Humanity of Environmental Catastrophe

    More than 15,000 scientists have signed a chilling article titled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice,” urging global leaders to save the planet from environmental catastrophe. The plea, published Monday in the international journal BioScience, is likely the largest-ever formal support by scientists for a journal article with 15,372 total signatories, Motherboard noted. […]

    In Photos: The Battle for Poland’s Ancient Bialowieza Forest

    In Photos: The Battle for Poland’s Ancient Bialowieza Forest

    By Janice Pereira, Unearthed Despite repeated warnings from the European Union, the Polish government continues to defy orders to stop logging operations in the ancient Bialowieza forest. It started more than a year ago as a formal request by the European Commission, asking Poland to stop logging activity that violates the bloc’s wildlife protection laws. […]

    World’s Largest Tropical Reforestation to Plant 73 Million Trees in Brazilian Amazon

    World’s Largest Tropical Reforestation to Plant 73 Million Trees in Brazilian Amazon

    The largest tropical reforestation effort in history aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023. The multimillion dollar, six-year project, led by Conservation International, spans 30,000 hectares of land—the equivalent of the size of 30,000 soccer fields, or nearly 70,000 acres. The effort will help Brazil move towards its Paris agreement […]

    Better Land Use Can Achieve 30% of Carbon Cuts by 2030

    Better Land Use Can Achieve 30% of Carbon Cuts by 2030

    By Tim Radford Land use is often a forgotten priority, yet those of us who wish to contain global warming and avert catastrophic climate change have a natural ally: the land. As nations plan to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion, an international team of scientists has calculated just how much the […]