Tropical deforestation still surging, as ten football fields worth cleared every minute in 2023
On Thursday 4 April, researchers delivered more damning news on the biodiversity crisis. While Amazon deforestation rates have plummeted in ...
Tag: Deforestation
Canary articles on deforestation, forests, their inhabitants, and human activity within them
Belém’s environmental challenges: a glimpse into the COP30 host city
In the lead-up to hosting COP30 in 2025, Belém, the capital of Pará in northern Brazil, is confronted with a ...
It was International Day of Forests – so forest-destroyer Drax marked it with shameless greenwashing
Thursday 21 of March was the International Day of Forests. Naturally then, tree-burning bioenergy giant Drax marked the occasion by ...
Company linked to Unilever & Nestlé is using tax havens to hide deforestation HALF the size of Singapore
Since 2021, a single company has cut down biodiverse rainforest in Indonesia equivalent to nearly half the size of Singapore. ...
The BR-319 highway: a scientist’s call to action for the Amazon and beyond
Lucas Ferrante, researcher with a PhD in ecology from Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), has conducted multiple scientific ...
A UK power station that claims to be ‘renewable’ is actually burning some of the world’s most endangered trees
A UK power station that owner Drax claims produces renewable energy is actually burning wood from some of the world's ...
The Amazon’s warning call: a potential epicentre for the next pandemic is emerging in the rainforest
Preserving the Amazon rainforest isn’t just an environmental concern; it’s a matter of survival. It’s the most biodiverse place on ...
Leading leather manufacturer announces boycott of leather suppliers over fears for uncontacted Indigenous People in Paraguay
Pasubio, one of Europe’s leading leather manufacturers, has announced that it will refuse to buy leather from suppliers whose activities ...
The Land Gap: countries including the US will need to use one billion hectares of land to meet climate targets
New data indicates that a short list of high-emitting, high-income nations are overly reliant on land use to offset their ...
The BR-319 highway: the Amazon’s Trojan Horse
The Amazon drought in Brazil is unleashing a wave of environmental, health, economic, and social disruptions in the region. But ...
Brazil’s Yanomami People are facing another colonialist threat – this time from ultra processed food
The Yanomami are an Indigenous People of Brazil and Venezuela. The Brazilian state specifically and corporations have for decades violated ...
The reconstruction of a Brazilian highway is the Amazon’s route to deforestation
The reconstruction of Amazon’s BR-319 highway in Brazil, connecting the capital Manaus in central Amazonia to the southern edge of ...
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