Australia's initiative to slow global warming questioned

Displacement due to logging in Peru

Sierra Leone freezes timber export

Science & Technology - Briefs

Science And Technology - Briefs

Protests against crude production in Peru

McDonalds' UK promotes sustainable coffee

371,000-ha rainforest sold in Guyana

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‘The Congo more climate-resilient than Amazonia? Jury is still out’

Down To Earth speaks to Elsa Ordway from UCLA about a 10-year study on the ecology of tropical forests in the Congo Basin and other parts of …

Hunting has affected more than half of tropical forests: Study

Scientists in the Netherlands find a 70 per cent decline in mammal population in Western Africa, which is the biggest in the world

When the water begins to stink

...Yet another rainforest disappears and a way of life dies as "development" catches up with the Guaranis of Paraguay

Up in smoke

Illegal marijuana cultivation leads to a systematic butchering of the rich rainforests of Kerala

Gasping for breath

Entire tree species face the threat of extinction from the increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Global Forest Resource Assessment: Tropical forests the size of Europe lost in first 20 years of this century

Deforestation slowed by 30% in 2010-18; cropland, oil palm plantation and grazing biggest drivers of deforestation

The earth likely holds more than 9,000 undiscovered tree species; and they are in danger

Undiscovered tree species are more likely to be present in in tropical and subtropical dry forests, which are threatened by development projects

Growing appetite for charcoal destroying Nigeria's tropical forests

The top producer of crude oil in Africa is exporting cheaply made charcoal to the world, especially EU, which is often labelled incorrectly as '…

From reservations to recognition

Pushed onto reservations and almost forgotten, the indigenous people of the world have finally got onto the international environmental agenda.…

Pact of devastation

France has agreed to cancel part of the debt it is owed by Cameroon in return for the right to destroy the country's rainforests

Forest-risk goods

Export-oriented commercial agriculture is the single largest driver of tropical deforestation, argues a new book

The spirit of los Haitises

Humans and forests stand at a bitter crossroad in the Dominican Republic, where conserving remnants of rainforests jeopardise the survival of …

Destruction as a way of sustainable farming

For centuries, the Iban tribals of Malaysia have cultivated crops by clearing trees, but without endangering the rainforests. At the centre of …

Wielding the green whip

Mexico can't sell its "dolphin-unfriendly" tuna to USA. Japan faces punishment for exporting jewellery made of hawksbill sea turtle shell. …

McNamara shoots from the hip

Today's neo-Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent …