Swedish-British billionaire Johan Eliasch made a significant move in 2005. He purchased a vast tract of Amazon rainforest in Brazil. His intention was not exploitation but protection. By acquiring a ...

In Indonesia, these pressures are intense. Expanding palm oil plantations, logging, mining, and increasingly frequent fires ...

The production of food continues to eat its way into the world’s tropical forests. Agricultural expansion drives nearly 90% ...

For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all bets are off.

In the late 20th century, Costa Rica — a Central American nation a little smaller than West Virginia — had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. The country was losing more than 100,000 ...

Vast stretches of a once-verdant acacia forest south of Sudan's capital Khartoum have been reduced to little more than fields of stumps as nearly three years of conflict have fuelled ...

Permits revoked, lawsuits filed, the threat of state takeovers. Deadly flooding in Indonesia has prompted unprecedented government action against companies accused of environmental destruction that ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through enormous swaths of the Amazon, releasing masses of planet-warming carbon ...

Kate Dooley receives funding from the Australian Research Council and a number of philanthropic organisations. She is affiliated with Climate Integrity and the Minderoo Foundation. Ahead of the United ...

Environmental crime has surged into a multibillion-dollar global industry, ranking just behind narcotics, weapons trafficking, and human smuggling in criminal profitability. According to the United ...