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Another heavy fire season in Indonesia has taken a toll on the country’s remaining forest. In Sembilang National Park, on the island of Sumatra, fires raged into primary forest that provides vital habitat for critically endangered Sumatran tigers and elephants.

As 2019 Amazon fires die down,...

Oct 23, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

This year’s August Amazon fires grabbed headlines around the world.

Why Amazon Fires Keep Raging 1...

Oct 10, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Many of the thousands of fires burning in Brazil’s Amazon are set by ranchers. A deal inked 10 years ago was meant to stop the problem, but the ecological arson goes on as the Earth warms.

Conservation group to buy larg...

Sep 23, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.

Deforestation Is Getting Worse...

Sep 13, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

As fires in the Amazon draw attention to the problem, critics say big agribusinesses aren’t doing enough to stop deforestation in their supply chains.

Artist plants a living forest ...

Sep 12, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Austria’s Wörthersee football stadium is now thriving with life in an installation that is as beautiful as it is chilling.

Planting Trees Is Good. Elimin...

Aug 9, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

The UN report says we just have to stop cutting them down.

Indonesian flooding disaster b...

Aug 8, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

TAPUWATU, Indonesia — Muhammad Arfa says he thinks a miracle saved his home.

Ethiopia plants 350 million tr...

Aug 1, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Ethiopia’s ambitious national reforestation program seeks to plant 4 billion trees by October.

Ravaged by Drought, a Honduran...

Jul 8, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

People in El Rosario live on the edge of hunger, not knowing if the next harvest will come. Climate change is a driving force of food insecurity.

Cargill promised to end defore...

Jul 8, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

In 2014, the world’s largest agribusiness, Cargill, announced it would stop buying palm oil, rubber, and other commodities from farmers who cut down forests to grow their crops.

High-income countries are driv...

Jun 17, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Consumer demand for meat, soy, palm oil, and more has resulted in 60% of primate species facing extinction.

An (Even More) Inconvenient Tr...

May 22, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

The Simple, Yet Elusive, Key T...

May 9, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Preserving and restoring forests is an effective step toward mitigating climate change, and comes with a host of other benefits.

Bolsonaro Wants to Plunder the...

Jan 30, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

The Brazilian president’s pro-business agenda will be a test of American companies’ commitment to the environment.

We Need To Talk About Palm Oil

Dec 24, 2018 by GlobalPossibilities

We eat it, clean our homes and bodies with it and even fuel our cars with it. But our insatiable demand for palm oil is wreaking havoc on the planet — and our climate.

The Left Lung of the Planet &#...

Nov 10, 2018 by Casey Coates Danson

Africa’s Congo Basin is home to the second-largest rainforest on the planet. But according to a new study, this may soon not be the case. It finds that at current rates of deforestation, all primary forest will be gone by the end of the century.

Paradise Threatened: Fiji’s Wa...

Oct 24, 2018 by GlobalPossibilities

The South Pacific nation faces major environmental challenges, from the destruction of coral reefs to rising sea levels. At least one resort is asking tourists to help.