The world’s wealthiest nations collectively caused 15 times more biodiversity loss internationally than domestically, driving deforestation to satisfy agricultural and forestry demand.

The fact that more than half of global GDP depends on materials and processes provided by nature means responsible investment ...

Deforestation in Colombia rose 35% in 2024 from a 23-year low the previous year, fueled by an uptick in the Amazon region, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Thursday.

The paper, “Global Biodiversity Loss from Outsourced Deforestation,” was co-authored by Alex Wiebe (The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) and David Wilcove ...

is shedding new light on the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics. The findings, from a researcher at the ...

Understanding Deforestation Deforestation is an ongoing environmental issue that involves the large-scale clearance or ...

It is estimated that nearly twenty percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down in the last fifty years, and the rate of this deforestation has increased in recent years.

It is hoped that the hard-won decisions made by parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity will shore up biodiversity and fragile ecosystems which are bearing the brunt of increased conflict ...

Muhamad, one of the longest-serving ministers in Petro's cabinet, said in the interview she was most proud of her work on deforestation and on the UN COP16 biodiversity summit, which was held in ...

An improvement in freshwater biodiversity in England's rivers was linked to reductions in pollution of zinc and copper, largely due to the decline of coal burning and heavy industry, say researchers.