Digital Markets Act: EU’s landmark bill that takes aim at big tech

Law may also force companies like Google and Apple to allow alternatives to their app stores

As Amazon burns BlackRock emerges as world’s largest investor in deforestation

The world’s largest institutional investor with US $6.5 trillion in assets is a global leader in financing forest destruction, new report says

Water in forests: Finding the blue in the greens

It is time we rediscover forests as a ‘water commons’ to aid India’s fight against climate change

Earth lost a tenth of wilderness in just two decades

Major losses have occurred in the Amazon and Africa. Efforts to protect the critical areas are failing to keep pace with the rate of loss

Indigenous people slam Peru government for unrestrained deforestation of Amazon

Around 13 per cent of original forest area deforested by 2014, according to a new report

Amazon ‘one of the most dangerous places to be a green defender’: Report

One person died every other day while protecting the planet last year, says Global Witness  

Davi Kopenawa wins Alternate Nobel Prize for protecting the Amazon rainforest

Davi has frequently been threatened by the gold miners and politicians who target the resources inside the Yanomami territory

Major victory for indigenous groups in Ecuadorian Amazon

Chinese company pulls out of contract to drill for oil in remote rainforest after protests by indigenous groups

A wildfire recovery guide for California

Many good-intentioned people take wrong steps after a fire because of ignorance. The California Native Plant Society has released a guide for …

Amazonian dirt roads are choking Brazil's tropical streams

The fragile waterways—and the spectacular fish that live in them—are paying a high price

Amazon tribe makes first contact with outside world

Health officials are worried that some members of the group may have contracted influenza

Checking gold fever

Brazil develops a cheap device to increase gold yield and control mercury pollution in the devastated Amazon basin

Brazil Congress votes to dilute ministries of environment, Indigenous rights’ powers

First clash of President Lula with conservative Congress as lawmakers vote 15-3 to restructure ministries back to Bolsonaro-era 

Brazil polls 2022: DTE’s coverage of a ‘Once in a generation’ election

Down To Earth tried to catch all the vibes as Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva clashed in a high stakes battle

Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics

Roughly 15 per cent of the world’s land surface is under official state protection

African leopard sighting raises hopes for their conservation in southern Cameroon

Although the Congo Basin was previously thought to be a stronghold for leopards, they are now believed to be absent in many parts of this region

Tropical forests losing capacity to cycle carbon and water, finds new tracking system

Between 15 per cent and 20 per cent of humid tropical forests have been cleared since the early 1990s 

Indigenous peoples sue Ecuador govt, oil firms over spill

On April 7, 2 oil pipelines had spilled 15,000 barrels of crude oil into 2 of Ecuador's most important rivers

‘The fight to save the Amazon is urgent as there is no Plan B’

One of Brazil’s most noted indigenous voices, Sonia Guajajara, speaks on the Amazon fires

Venezuela’s isolated indigenous groups under siege from miners, disease and guerrillas

The Hoti, Yanomami and Piaroa, isolated indigenous groups in Venezuela, are under threat on several fronts

Come together, non-profit tells international community, as Bolsonaro takes charge

Amazon Watch adds voice to Brazil’s national indigenous movement that is mounting resistance to the far-right politician

Rising CO2 level can lead to drier Amazon and bring more rain in African and Pacific forests

Large-scale changes in rainfall can happen based on how tropical forests respond to excess CO2 in the atmosphere

'Three of us were killed last year, but we continue to protect our forests'

Guardians of the Amazon, a tribe in the forests sent this message to the Brazilian government to help them protect an uncontacted tribe and their …

Human actions make Amazon rainforest more vulnerable to fire

Rainforests don't normally burn, but in 2015 Brazilian rainforests experienced 19,739 cases of fire

Hydroelectric dams reduce tropical forest biodiversity, says study

Studies have shown that dams displace indigenous communities, affect the flow of rivers and increase greenhouse gas emissions