Each year, these plantations generate about $50 million in revenue for the Ocho Sur group, whose palm oil has ended up in products ranging from Cheetos to Colgate toothpaste. The $160 million ...

"Unfortunately, it’s always the most vulnerable communities that are hardest hit." River in world's largest rainforest on ...

Freshwater habitats cover less than 1% of the planet's surface but support 10% of its animal species, a zoologist and study ...

impact investors and financial institutions to promote a nature-based economy in the Amazon biome, which is under grave threat from deforestation for timber and illegal mining. According to the ...

“Although AMACRO is promoted as a sustainable development zone, it has become a major driver of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.” The highway could have other irreversible ...

The plantation is over 8,000ha, rife with problems caused by poor management and deforestation by the government-linked company Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Pahang (PKNP). Malaysiakini’s site ...

The practice accounts for only a fraction of Amazon deforestation, far less than agriculture, but its effects are more noxious. Mercury, which is used to collect and purify gold traces found in ...

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“This means penalizing companies committed to ending deforestation, promoting the continued expansion of agribusiness in Amazon forest areas, creating subsidies for deforestation and discriminating ...

The upcoming COP30 United Nations climate conference in Belem highlights Brazil's struggle with deforestation in the Amazon. A new report by Global Canopy reveals that 80% of leading Brazilian beef ...

A landmark study published in the journal Nature in 2021 found that the eastern Amazon, where Para is located, has ceased to function as a carbon sink, or absorber, for the Earth, due to widespread ...