Amazon rainforest trees are getting bigger due to climate crisis, study finds Scientists say the findings should not obscure the devastation wrought by deforestation The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2025
Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed Forest is ‘remarkably resilient to climate change’, but remains under threat from fires and deforestation The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2025
EU postpones anti-deforestation rules as bloc signs trade deal with Indonesia EU environmental chiefs have announced another one-year delay to plans to tighten up rules on importing products such as soy, beef and cocoa that have been linked to forest destruction. Radio France Internationale · Sep 24, 2025
Commission claims IT glitch forced second delay to EU deforestation rules EU executive blames IT failure for the second delay in implementing the Deforestation Regulation. Euronews · Sep 23, 2025
EU Proposes New Delay To Anti-deforestation Rules The EU said Tuesday it will seek a new one-year delay to sweeping anti-deforestation rules cheered by green groups but assailed by key trading partners from the United States to Indonesia. International Business Times · Sep 23, 2025
Indonesia, EU Sign Long-awaited Trade Deal Indonesia and the European Union finalised negotiations on a trade agreement Tuesday after nearly a decade of talks, a senior minister said. International Business Times · Sep 23, 2025
How Europe’s deforestation law could change the global coffee trade If your morning can’t begin without coffee, you’re in good company. The world drinks about 2 billion cups of coffee a day. However, a European Union law might soon affect your favorite coffee beans – and the farmers who grow them. The Conversation · Sep 2, 2025
What Brazil’s soy moratorium fight means — and what happens next Brazil’s soybean moratorium, credited with curbing Amazon deforestation since 2006, faces an uncertain future after the country’s competition regulator ordered its suspension while probing potential cartel-like behavior among traders The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2025
Behind Pakistan’s repeated floods: Melting glaciers, depleted forests Deforestation and glacial melting are the two leading causes compounding the climate crisis in the north of Pakistan. Al Jazeera · Aug 28, 2025
Deforestation linked to thousands of heat-related deaths each year, study warns New research links tropical deforestation to 28,000 annual heat-related deaths. Euronews · Aug 28, 2025
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2025
Can lab-grown oils offer a sustainable alternative to ingredients linked to deforestation? Traditional palm and cocoa butter supply chains can take months. SMEY’s lab-grown oils cut that down to only 30 days. Euronews · Aug 25, 2025
Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2025
Bolivia will choose a new president but environmental activists see little hope of progress Bolivia heads into an Oct. 19 runoff between centrist Rodrigo Paz Pereira and right-wing ex-president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga after nearly 20 years of socialist rule The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2025 From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment Labour has continued to diverge from bloc’s laws, meaning most of UK’s protections are weaker than pre-Brexit
Radio France Internationale · Aug 18, 2025 Meet the NGOs striving to save the last forests of the Comoros On the most mountainous and densely populated island in the Comoros, only the most remote forests have escaped decades of deforestation – ravages which several NGOs are now trying to repair.
The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025 Takeaways from AP's reporting on armed groups recruiting children in Colombia The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people formed in Colombia in 2001 to protect Indigenous territories from armed groups and from environmental destruction such as deforestation and illegal mining
The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025 Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia's children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people formed in Colombia in 2001 to protect Indigenous territories from armed groups and from environmental destruction such as deforestation and illegal mining
LiveScience · Aug 12, 2025 Amazon rainforest is approaching 'tipping points' that could transform it into a drier savanna Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could transpire.
The Guardian - AU · Aug 7, 2025 Queensland land-clearing figures show state remains ‘deforestation capital of Australia’, conservationists say Overall clearing was up 3%, with almost half in Great Barrier Reef catchment areas while 21% was remnant woodland, government data shows
The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2025 Chimp refuge shuts doors to tourists in deforestation protest Workers said deforestation in the area was fuelled by ‘land grabbing’ for development
The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2025 Amazon deforestation surges in Colombia, reversing historic gains Colombia’s government has reported a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest for last year, reversing much of the progress made during a historic low in 2023
Euronews · Jul 29, 2025 Proposed changes to EU deforestation law will boost illegal Russia timber trade, NGO warns A majority of EU countries are pushing for changes to the EU deforestation law that could likely boost illegal timber imports from sanctioned Russia and Belarus, according to NGO Earthsight, which claims states pushing for the changes are benefiting from the illegal timber trade.
Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2025 MPs urge ministers to introduce long-awaited rules on supply chain deforestation Environment Secretary Steve Reed has been urged to set a date for proposed forest-risk commodity rules to come into force.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2025 Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communities