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...
Austrian environmental justice campaigners Allrise filed the official complaint at The Hague-based court Tuesday morning.
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.
Environmentalists say those policies fuel the destruction of the Amazon, about 60% of which is in Brazil.
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.
Leaders from global health organisations say deforestation and the unregulated wildlife trade is to blame for diseases like COVID-19 being transmitted to humans.
For many lower-income urbanites, firewood and charcoal have become the go-to sources of substitute energy - and rogue logging is the result.
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.
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.
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.
Graphic showing fires that have been detected in South American countries so far this year.
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.
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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Despite concerted efforts to reduce tropical deforestation, tree cover loss has been rising steadily in the tropics over the past 17 years.
A growing global population and increased demand for food and land are driving deforestation.