SAO PAULO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's Para state, which leads the country for the highest levels of Amazon rainforest destruction, will launch a mandatory program to track cattle in a bid to crack ...

The world is off track to meet a pledge to halt deforestation by 2030, new research warns - Copyright AFP/File CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN The world is off track to meet a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 3.75 million hectares of primary tropical forests have been cleared annually in recent years, contributing to climate change ...

Despite the urgency behind global pledges to stop cutting down trees and damaging forests, the world lost tens of millions of acres of woodlands in 2022, veering well off track from meeting targets to ...

It’s yet another blow for the European Commission in its effort to get the anti-deforestation law up and running. The European Parliament is piling pressure on the European Commission to revise its ...

BELEM, Brazil — Eight Amazon nations agreed to a list of unified environmental policies and measures to bolster regional cooperation at a major rainforest summit in Brazil on Tuesday, but failed to ...

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Perhaps we can all agree that the state needs to manage our forests better, but certainly not by destroying them at a more rapid rate. It is incomprehensible that anyone would suggest more and faster ...

BRASILIA, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Switzerland and the United States have donated $8.4 million to Brazil's Amazon Fund to help stop deforestation and preserve the world's largest tropical rainforest, the ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has ...

As incomes in China have grown in the last decade, so has China’s appetite for beef. No longer out of reach for China’s middle class, beef now sizzles in home woks and restaurant kitchens. China has ...