The Latest Breaking News from Deforestation

Vegetable oils are everywhere, and almost everyone has an opinion about them. From clever marketing in supermarket aisles to headlines about deforestation, they have become both the heroes and villains of the modern diet. But vegetable oils are vital to our lives and can help to address food insecurity.

WWF is calling on UK food companies to enhance visibility and traceability for deforestation and land conversion-free sourcing.

UK banks, energy giants and arms exporters are at the heart of one of the world’s least-known human rights and environmental crises, our research has revealed.

Cocoa production is fueling illegal deforestation in Liberia, new investigation reveals.

Have you noticed more QR codes or country-of-origin labels on the meat at the supermarket or timber decking from the hardware shop? You’re not imagining it.

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance

Scientists say the findings should not obscure the devastation wrought by deforestation

Forest is ‘remarkably resilient to climate change’, but remains under threat from fires and deforestation

EU environmental chiefs have announced another one-year delay to plans to tighten up rules on importing products such as soy, beef and cocoa that have been linked to forest destruction.