Deforestation
The Amazon: a paradise lost?
Thanks to its lush vegetation and the miracle of photosynthesis, the Amazon basin has, until recently, absorbed large amounts of humankind's ballooning carbon...
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Brazil's Bolsonaro accused of 'crimes against humanity' at ICC
Austrian environmental justice campaigners Allrise filed the official complaint at The Hague-based court Tuesday morning.
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Govts urged to apply concerted efforts to cut back on greenhouse emissions
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has painted a bleak picture of where the world could be heading should governments not counter fossil fuel burning and deforestation.
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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon surges to 12-year high
Environmentalists say those policies fuel the destruction of the Amazon, about 60% of which is in Brazil.
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Brazil rejects deforestation concerns on EU-Mercosur deal
France said Friday it was opposed to the yet-to-be-ratified deal, after a government-commissioned report blasted the accord as a "missed opportunity" to hold South American countries accountable for protecting the environment.
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World health leaders: 'Human activity to blame for diseases like COVID-19'
Leaders from global health organisations say deforestation and the unregulated wildlife trade is to blame for diseases like COVID-19 being transmitted to humans.
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Zimbabwe turns to charcoal for cooking as power outages bite
For many lower-income urbanites, firewood and charcoal have become the go-to sources of substitute energy - and rogue logging is the result.
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Indonesia arrests nearly 200 over raging forest fires
On Monday, authorities said they had arrested some 185 people suspected of being involved in activities that led to out-of-control fires sweeping the country.
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Hundreds of schools shut as forest-fire haze blankets SE Asia
Massive jungle areas in Sumatra and Borneo island are ablaze as thousands of personnel battle to quell the fires, frequently started to clear land for crop plantations.
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Madagascar forest destruction wiping out our tiniest relative
Frustrated conservationists hope Friday’s arrival of the environmentally-conscious Pope Francis will spotlight the island that lost 2% of primary rainforest last year, the highest of any tropical nation.
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Fires across South America in 2019 so far
Graphic showing fires that have been detected in South American countries so far this year.
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UK pledges £10 mn for fire-ravaged Amazon
The money would be made available immediately to help restore the habitat, including areas that have been hit by the fires, the British government said in a statement released at the G7 summit in the French resort of Biarritz.
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Tropical forest the size of England destroyed in 2018 - report
The pace of the loss is staggering, the equivalent of 30 football fields disappearing every minute of every day, or 12 million hectares a year.
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7 secrets that forests are keeping from you
Forests play a key role in our lives that we don’t even recognise. Here are 7 ways how and some of their best kept secrets.
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2017 was the second-worst year on record for tropical tree loss
Despite concerted efforts to reduce tropical deforestation, tree cover loss has been rising steadily in the tropics over the past 17 years.
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FAO: World loses South Africa-sized forest area in 25 years
A growing global population and increased demand for food and land are driving deforestation.
