The Latest Breaking News from Deforestation

Consuming ‘Faux Beef’ Could Reduce Global Warming, New Study

Gradually replacing 20 percent of global beef and lamb consumption with meat-textured proteins also known as ‘Faux Beef’ could cut agriculture-related CO2 emissions and deforestation in half by 2050, a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reported. Faux meat derived by culturing microbial or fungi-based…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 11, 2022

Brazilian groups want direct access to U.S. forest funding

Brazilian environmental and Indigenous organizations are urging the United States to fund forest protection initiatives that directly involve forest peoples

The Independent UK · May 10, 2022

Deforestation of Amazon in Brazil surges to record new high

‘To say we’ll miss it when it’s gone, is like saying we’ll miss our lungs when they’re gone’

The Independent UK · May 7, 2022

Tropical forest loss in 2021 emitted as much CO2 as India

The world is perilously far off deforestation goals, an exhaustive report finds.

Axios · Apr 28, 2022

‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge

Tropics lost 11.1m hectares of tree cover in 2021, including forest critical to limiting global heating and biodiversity loss

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2022

Zimbabwe's tobacco rebounds amid worries over health, labor

Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to fight deforestation and child labor in response to pressure from rights groups, environmentalists and international buyers

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2022

Google doodle marks Earth Day 2022 with stark images of climate crisis

Time-lapse satellite images show glacial retreat at Mount Kilimanjaro, Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching, deforestation in Germany and Greenland glacial melt

The Guardian - AU · Apr 22, 2022

Deforestation: Facts about the widespread destruction of Earth's forests

Deforestation can include clearing the land for farming or livestock, or using the timber for fuel, construction or manufacturing.

LiveScience · Jan 6, 2022