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Tropical forests still under pressure despite slowdown in losses

Millions of hectares of tropical forest were destroyed in 2025, despite a slowdown in deforestation led by Brazil. Environmental experts say the drop shows governments can curb forest loss, but warn rainforests remain under pressure from agriculture, mining and fires.

Radio France Internationale

Why boosting production of Venezuela's 'very dense, very sloppy' oil could harm the environment

Even a modest increase in Venezuelan oil production could carry climate consequences on the scale of entire countries, experts warn.

Euronews

Why boosting production of Venezuela's 'very dense, very sloppy' oil could harm the environment

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation

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Hurricane Melissa hit areas vulnerable to landslides because of deforestation

Hurricane Melissa pummeled areas of the Caribbean already vulnerable to landslides and flash flooding — made worse by decades of deforestation — with risks likely to continue for days, experts said

The Independent UK

Behind Pakistan’s repeated floods: Melting glaciers, depleted forests

Deforestation and glacial melting are the two leading causes compounding the climate crisis in the north of Pakistan.

Al Jazeera

What are the largest rainforests in the world?

Rainforests are home to half of the world's plant and animal species. Here are the five largest rainforests in the world.

LiveScience

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires reaches Europe amid extreme start to the 2025 fire season

About 200 fires are actively burning in Canada and have consumed about 19,900 square kilometres of terrain, most of it in the last week.

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Data capturing hot spots and burned acres show Canada wildfire season off to wild start

Canada’s wildfire season is off to an intense start

The Independent UK

‘Global red alert’: Wildfires drive record forest loss in 2024, alarming data reveals

Fires emitted 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases, more than four times the emissions from all commercial air travel in 2023

The Independent UK

Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows

Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests

The Guardian - UK

Governors are leading the fight against climate change and deforestation around the world, filling a void left by presidents

When the annual U.N. climate conference descends on the small Brazilian rainforest city of Belém in November 2025, it will be tempting to focus on the drama and disunity among major nations. Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required…

The Conversation

Fighting forest fires with a plan and community cooperation

Unni Varadam leads a conservation volunteer group in Kerala, fighting forest fires and promoting eco-restoration efforts.

The Hindu

Deforestation in Bolivia has jumped by 32% in a year. What is going on?

Everything points to more, not less, tree clearance, as country’s fastest-growing region embraces intensive agriculture

The Guardian - UK

Explained | Global tropical primary forest cover continued decline in 2022: study

Primary tropical forest cover continued to decrease at an alarming rate in 2022, making the goal of net zero deforestation by 2030 even more unattainable.

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The Earth's Corr: We need to give nature legal rights

The only future where we all thrive is one where we work in harmony with nature and treat it with the same care we do our children, who just a few generations ago had no rights either

Reuters

God's will or ecological disaster? Mexico takes aim at Mennonite deforestation

The largest tropical forest in North America yields to perfect rows of corn and soy. Light-haired women with blue eyes in wide-brimmed hats bump down a dirt road in a horse and buggy, past simple brick homes and a whitewashed schoolhouse: A Mennonite community in southern Mexico.

Salon

The world is losing way too many trees

A new report says the world's pristine forests were destroyed at a relentless rate in 2021

Axios

Tropical forest loss in 2021 emitted as much CO2 as India

The world is perilously far off deforestation goals, an exhaustive report finds.

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