The EU’s new ecocide law may still let environmental criminals get away with it
The EU’s new ecocide law follows this definition closely. Member states have two years to adopt it into their national legislation. If they fail to do so, they could be referred to the Court of ...
Amazon deforestation: Cheap supermarket meat is killing the rainforest and driving people like Osvalinda from their homes – Philip Lymbery
Smallholders like the late Osvalinda Pereira face a campaign of deadly threats and harassment from big companies that produce ...
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Eight U.S. wood groups seek delay of EU deforestation regulation
A consortium of eight U.S. wood-related trade groups signed a letter requesting the European Commission to push back the ...
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Under Media Blackout, the Hidden Devastation of Myanmar’s Environment
Environmental reporting has mostly focused on consequences of extraction of both marine and land natural resources including deforestation, as well as accountability for and possible solutions to ...
Wildfires in wet African forests have doubled in recent decades, large-scale analysis finds
A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in West and Central Africa's wet, tropical forests. The ...
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NASA Is Helping Protect Tigers, Jaguars, and Elephants. Here’s How.
As human populations grow, habitat loss threatens many creatures. Mapping wildlife habitat using satellites is a rapidly ...
Can Forests Be More Profitable Than Beef?
Cattle ranches have ruled the Amazon for decades. Now, new companies are selling something else: the ability of trees to lock ...
Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy — what can the world learn from it?
While most of the world still runs on dirty fossil fuels, Costa Rica has generated nearly all of its electricity from ...
See the $36 billion Great Green Wall in Africa that's an attempt to hold back desertification
The Great Green Wall aims to regreen 247 million acres of degraded land across Africa's Sahel region by 2030. It could cost ...
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Deforestation in Indonesia Spiked Last Year, But Some Trends Are Improving
During Indonesia’s last El Nino in 2015-2016, fires intentionally started to clear land for agriculture rapidly spread, ...