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Environment
Lula promises sustainable development for the Amazon
Children play in a flooded area of Leticia, Colombia, Feb. 14, 2017, located by the Amazon River, on the border with Brazil and Peru.
Environment
Brazil’s neighbors wary of environmental impact of a Bolsonaro victory
Khadija Mohamed al-Makhzoumi is Somalia's first environment and climate change minister.
Climate Change
Somalia’s first environment minister aims to alleviate suffering from climate disasters
Amid a multitude of trails with trees that reach dozens of feet overhead, conservationists with Casa del Agua lead tours and tell stories about the forests planted over three decades.
Environment
Conservationists focus on community reforestation efforts to save Mexico’s wetlands
Smoke rises from a processing mill at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia
Climate Change
The world’s tropical forests can help us limit climate change — if we let them
Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil.
Climate Change
World leaders pledged to end forest loss. What will it take?
Protesting farmers ride tractors and shout slogans as they march to the capital, breaking police barricades, during India's Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
India repeals controversial farm laws after a year of protests
At El Color de Mis Reves, or The Color of My Dreams, most of the land is covered by cloud forests. The owner wants the forest to regrow to give the wildlife more space.
Environment
Colombian farmers bet on bird-watching lodges to conserve forests
Tree trunks with vibrant green leaves
Mexican communities manage their local forests, generating benefits for humans, trees and wildlife
The Atlantic rainforest in Brazil is a beacon for global forest restoration.
The Big Fix
The Atlantic rainforest in Brazil is a bright spot for restoration
Image of an illegally deforested area on Pirititi Indigenous lands.
Climate Change
The Amazon rainforest is likely adding to global warming, says a new study
Green trees in the corner with wide swath of cleared forest in the center
COVID-19
Slowing deforestation could save humanity from the next pandemic
Cloud forests are shown as the hits the horizon turning some of the clouds a golden color.
These scientists created a ‘cloud curtain’ in Peru’s tropical forests to mimic the future
Rainforest biotic pump
Environment
Rainforests are ‘worth more alive than dead,’ according to science — and economics
Red and orange blazing fires in Amazon forest
Environment
Amazon fires push the forest closer to a dangerous tipping point
A fire burns at night in the jungle.
Environment
Amazon fires: 8 ways you can help stop the rainforest burning
Fire licks up a palm tree at night
Brazil faces international backlash over Amazon fires, deforestation
Bioacoustics device
Environment
Listening to forests could aid conservation efforts around the world
An aerial view of a tract of dry land cleared by loggers and farmers surrounded by green tree tops.
Climate Change
Strict Amazon protections made Brazilian farmers more productive, new research shows
A muddy river runs through a green landscape. On one side are trees and a dense forest; the other is bare.
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
‘Our wealth is the forest’: Indigenous tribes are the last best hope for the Amazon
A dry brown patch of land is dotted with trees
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
A ‘Third Way’ to save the Amazon: make the standing forest itself more valuable
Fields growing soybeans for the global market have replaced dense rainforest along the Brazilian Amazon’s 'arc of deforestation.'
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
For illegal loggers in the Brazilian Amazon, ‘there is no fear of being punished’
Two trees are covered in instruments strapped to their bases
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
The Amazon used to be a hedge against climate change. Those days may be over.
The 25 youth plaintiffs represent 17 cities in Colombia, including four within the Amazon rainforest.
Colombian high court grants personhood to Amazon rainforest in case against country’s government
Tropical forest Indonesia
Environment
Tropical forests are becoming net carbon producers, instead of carbon sinks
Uganda deforestation
Environment
Can we pay people to save the rainforests?
Forest burning
Environment
A super-simple strategy may be key to fighting climate change
Deforestation in Honduras
Conflict
Drug trafficking in Central America drives increased deforestation
Bison in Poland forest
Environment
In Poland, a primeval forest is threatened by commercial logging
Hamisah photo
Environment
A village’s first female chief ended illegal logging with spies and checkpoints
Coffee cup
Environment
Can coffee become the world’s first 100 percent sustainable agricultural product?
Ninety five percent of urban Tanzanians use charcoal for cooking fuel, and the trade supports more than a million jobs. But charcoal production is taking a massive toll on the country's forests. After a failed attempt to ban the trade the country is now t
Environment
Tanzania is trying to turn the charcoal trade from an enemy to a friend of the forest
A Ka'apor Indian warrior stands holding a rifle during a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory
Environment
An Amazon tribe fights back against illegal logging
A worker fills a water tanker for distribution to a hospital in São Paulo in February. Residents throughout the metropolitan region of 20 million people are taking emergency measures amid a severe drought.
Environment
South America’s largest city is almost out of water
Some of the nearly 250,000 Malawians displaced by recent flooding in the southern part of the country sit for a photo at a school where they've taken refuge. Far from the epicenter of international flood relief efforts, the 4,220 people in this isolated c
Environment
Here’s what happens when increasingly severe weather meets deforestation
A Madagascar Biodiversity Project poster illustrates the symbiotic relationship between the black and white ruffed lemur and the forests they live in, centered on food and poop. The project aims to use lemur poop to help restore forest habitat for the ben
Environment
Lemur poop might save Madagascar’s forests — and economy
A billboard for soybeans in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The region is likely to make Brazil the world's top producer of soybeans, but the boom in production has come at the same time as a rise in deforestation.
Environment
Brazil is set to become the world’s biggest soy producer — and that might be bad news for its forests
Environment
Technology is allowing us to watch the world’s forest disappear in real time, and hopefully halt it
Amazon deforestation
Environment
Brazil’s winning on the soccer field — and in battling climate change
American Chestnut Tree
Environment
Residents of Appalachia try to give new life to old mines using a beloved chestnut tree
Environment
Highly touted REDD program still looking for footing in Indonesia, four years later
Paper Trees in Precious Ground
Environment
Research into genetic modification of trees may enable more deforestation
Environment
On eve of Rio environmental conference, Brazil pushes back forestry changes
Environment
Brazil’s new forest code faces international opposition
Environment
Climate conference promises non-binding
Environment
Tropical forests and global warming
Business, Economics and Jobs
An environmentally sustainable economic model
Deforestation in Indonesia
Preserving the Congo Basin’s Trees, Part 1
Amazon Deforestation on the Rise
REDD Debate
Music to Help the Forests of Madagascar
Global Hit
‘Wake Up Madagascar’: A Music Tour to Fight Deforestation
Clearcut Chemicals
Music to Help the Forests of Madagascar
Global Politics
Rwanda Green Plan Links Environmental Health to Economic Health
Kalimantan
Environment
Invoking Buddha to Protect Forests
Environmental Activists Murdered in the Amazon