The Latest Breaking News from Deforestation

Official figures show deforestation fell 26% in Colombian Amazon last year and 29% nationwide

Country’s top cop said 90% of miners despoiling Yanomami land had been expelled, though experts say they are only displaced

The decrease began in January after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro left office and leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has met with his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro to build momentum for upcoming regional summit on the Amazon rainforest and enhance efforts for its protection

‘We reversed the curve, deforestation isn’t increasing’

Royal commission particularly scathing of Scott Morrison and Stuart Robert and the top public servant in charge of the scheme

The rate of deforestation since Lula Ignacio de Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president has dropped by 34%. Protecting the Amazon had been one of his campaign promises.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, providing an encouraging sign for his administration's environmental efforts

As deforestation removes protection from the ferocious winds, compounding damage from climate crisis-driven drought, sand dunes are burying the medieval port of Hobyo. Will pledges to green the desert save communities already displaced by war?

CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and deforestation are the causes of global climate warming exceeding 1°C over the past 100 years. At the current rate, this warming will most likely climb to 2°C before 2100, causing climate disruption around the world.

When asked to situate the world’s most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And given the intense media coverage of the country’s deforestation and fires – concerns reached a peak under former president Jair Bolsonaro and his free-for-all approach – they might also imagine a thick…