deforestation
COP26 was hailed as a last-gasp chance to halt the climate crisis before it destroys our way of life for good. Did it work?
Indigenous tribes are appealing to the U.N. to help stop deforestation and raids on tribal lands, which have both increased under President Jair Bolsonaro.
It's made from soybeans and linked to deforestation. Should we be ditching it altogether? It's not that simple.
Hundreds of global corporations have promised to help limit deforestation. None of them is meeting that goal.
How a passion for “that rich piece of Brazil", the Amazon rainforest, has made Bolsonaro into a victim.
Thousands of fires are burning throughout forests in Brazil but donations, petitions and reforestation can make a difference.
The blazes are roasting South America's biggest country just as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is rolling back environmental and indigenous protections.
Wildfires in the Amazon have seen an 84% increase compared to the same period in 2018, according to Brazil's space research centre, INPE. Conservationists, scientists and indingenous groups have raised their concerns over President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies that favour development over conservation in the Amazonian basin. As the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon is vital to slowing global warming as it removes carbon from the atmosphere.
Animal campaigners say koala numbers have fallen so low that the animal is "functionally extinct’’. Deforestation, heatwaves and wildfires triggered by climate change are causing a change in their habitat leading to a steep decline in their numbers.
Three rare white Bengal tigers were born at a safari park in Crimea. Tigers are endangered, with poaching, deforestation and over-hunting of their natural prey making it hard for them to survive in the wild. These white tigers are purposefully bred from a line of tigers with the recessive gene needed to give them their white fur.