Finland launches criminal probe into land clearance for Google data centre
Finnish police have launched a criminal investigation into suspected breaches of environmental law at the construction site of…
Amazon has lost 240 million acres of primary forest, about 15% of its original cover, a new study says; 32.2 million acres disappeared between 2022 and 2025, threatening vital rain-carrying pathways
Imagine Texas and California pushed together into one patch of land. Now picture all of it cut down,…
Reintroduced Grauer’s gorilla raising baby in African national park
Lulingu, a Grauer’s gorilla who was reintroduced to Virunga National Park in eastern Congo, is raising a baby…
He began studying the Amazon in the 1970s; 50 years later, Philip Fearnside’s research has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon on account of deforestation, dams and highways
Philip Fearnside’s research has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon on account of deforestation, dams and highways…
Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon and unveils environmental protection plan
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government announced Wednesday that it will invest $75 million in the BR-319 highway…
He sold his goats to buy tree seedlings and transformed barren hills into a forest: Meet Mbah Sadiman
For years, villagers in a drought-prone region of Central Java believed Mbah Sadiman was wasting his life. While…
New Study Shows Risks of Amazon Deforestation. And Rewards of Protection.
If deforestation and global warming continue unchecked, the Amazon rainforest could begin a gradual transition to a degraded,…
AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas
Gold mining presumed to be illegal caused 6,000 hectares (more than 14,800 acres) of deforestation in Amazonian…
Coffee companies launch satellite-based program to track deforestation
NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) – Several coffee companies and coffee traders are launching a new system to…
Colombia’s main river redraws the map of little-known night monkeys
A new study looks at genetic evidence to suggest that Colombia’s Magdalena River, and not the Andean…
Your Easter chocolate may harm the environment
The United Kingdom’s cocoa imports drove more than 2,000 hectares of deforestation in 2025 alone, mainly in…
From carbon-storing tigers to flood-blocking beavers: How wildlife secretly tackles climate change
As the planet edges closer to irreversible damage, wild animals around the world are staging their own secret…