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Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest Drops Sharply in One Year–Fewest Acres Since 2019

Deforestation across the Amazon Rainforest has fallen by 55% this year, marking the lowest amounts since 2019, and somewhat of a major victory to...

Deforestation Fell 26% in Colombian Amazon Last Year Since Peace and Reconciliation with Rebels in FARC

  After its first-ever left-wing presidential administration took charge of negotiating permanent peace with the socialist FARC rebels, Colombia's forests are feeling the effects with...

This Wood Grown in a Lab Could Cut Deforestation, With Furniture Made From Plant Cells

As if lab-grown meat wasn't a head turner, a group of scientists at MIT are plotting lab-grown wooden furniture. The two projects are nearly identical,...

These African Nations Used Satellite Monitoring to Cut Deforestation by 18 Percent

Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African countries where organizations subscribed to receive warnings from a new service using satellites to...

Amazon Tribes Are Excited to Use Drones to Detect Illegal Deforestation in Brazilian Rainforest

Indigenous rights' groups and WWF International are beginning to train Andean tribes people deep within the Amazon rainforest in the use of drones so...

How Costa Rica Slowed, Stopped, Then Reversed Deforestation in Their Rainforests

Once the captial of logging and deforestation in Latin America, Costa Rica's Payment for Environmental Service model helped reforest the country.

Norway to Become First Country That Bans Palm Oil Biofuels That Are Linked to Deforestation

The ban is set to go into effect one decade ahead of the European Union's similar ruling to phase out harmful biofuel use.

China’s Forests Steadily Recovering From Decades of Deforestation

China’s sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working. The vast destruction of China’s forests from decades of logging, floods and conversion to...

Amazon Deforestation in Brazil Has Plummeted Almost 90% in Ten Years

Brazil is seeing a whole lot of green these days after slashing its rate of Amazonian deforestation by about 90%. The happy decline began after Brazil became...

KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut Commit to Deforestation-free Palm Oil

The company that owns fast-food restaurants KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut joined the trend toward sustainability by announcing on Friday it plans to...

World’s Five Biggest Palm Oil Growers Agree To Moratorium on Deforestation

The five biggest palm oil growers in the world have launched and signed the Sustainable Palm Oil Manifesto with a temporary moratorium against deforestation...
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Leading Paper Producer to Halt Deforestation in Indonesian

The world's third largest paper company, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), announced earlier this month an immediate end to all natural forest clearing in...
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Amazon Deforestation at Record Low, Data Shows

Deforestation of the Amazon has fallen to its lowest levels since records began, according to data recently released by Brazil's National Institute for Space...
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Saving the Amazon: Brazil is Winning the War on Deforestation

For years, the story told about the Amazon has been one of destruction. But in Brazil the environmental battle is actually being won. In...
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Birds Thought Extinct Return to Rain Forest After Deforestation

Many bird species in the Amazon rainforest previously isolated and thought to be extinct in the quarter-century following deforestation have reappeared in these same...
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KFC to Stop Using Palm Oil – Healthier Food, Less Deforestation

KFC restaurants in the UK and Ireland will stop using palm oil to fry its chicken beginning this month, reaping a "double benefit" by...
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Moratorium on Amazon Deforestation for Soy Production Proving Effective

The Brazilian soy industry's moratorium is proving effective at slowing deforestation for soy production in the Amazon rainforest, according to a new study published...
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Good News for World Forests: Deforestation Slows in Last Decade

The Earth lost fewer trees in the last decade as global deforestation over the past ten years fell by more than 18 percent,...
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Kenya to Plant 7.6 Billion Trees to Counter Deforestation

Kenya said on Wednesday it would plant 7.6 billion trees over the next 20 years to redress decades of chopping down forest cover, the...
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Newlyweds Turn Back Clock on Deforestation

Newlyweds in Indonesia are planting trees under a program to replenish forests. Couples agree to plant 10 trees before they marry....