Deforestation
Can Colombia’s ‘crazy’ cattle ranchers make beef an eco-friendly choice?
By rejecting traditional grazing and maintaining trees and wildlife habitats alongside pasture, farmers are turning their land carbon positive. But will it be enough?
Austin Landis in Montería, Colombia
16, Dec, 2024 @11:00 AM
Protection deal for Amazon rainforest in peril as big business turns up heat
Exclusive: With Brazil’s politicians, agribusiness organisations and global traders piling on the pressure, the highly successful 2006 Soy Moratorium is under threat
Jonathan Watts Global environment editor
03, Dec, 2024 @10:30 PM
Land degradation expanding by 1m sq km a year, study shows
Report calls for course correction to avoid land abuse ‘compromising Earth’s capacity to support human and environmental wellbeing’
Jonathan Watts
01, Dec, 2024 @12:00 PM
BlackRock accused of contributing to climate and human rights abuses
OECD complaint alleges top firm has increased investments in companies implicated in environmental devastation
Jonathan Watts
20, Nov, 2024 @3:00 PM
Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report
Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says Unicef
Luke Taylor in Bogotá
07, Nov, 2024 @1:58 PM
Death threats, bodyguards and a Farc commander called Smurf: living dangerously with Colombia’s nature defenders
Leading Colombian conservationists share their experiences working in the most dangerous country to fight for wildlife
Phoebe Weston
07, Nov, 2024 @11:00 AM
Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16
Fears raised that biodiversity summit not addressing countries’ failure to meet a single target to stem destruction of natural world
Patrick Greenfield in Cali
31, Oct, 2024 @6:00 AM
Solar power to the people: how the sun is bringing light – and TV – to Amazon villages
Their fuel resources have long been plundered by others, while national grids have failed to connect them. Now, solar panels could give more than electricity to Indigenous people
Flávia Milhorance, Isabel Alarcón and David Gonzalez in Piyulaga, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; and Puerto Carreño, Colombia
29, Oct, 2024 @12:00 PM
Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists say
Pledge signed by experts from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have cut emissions
Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent
27, Oct, 2024 @2:00 PM
Biodiversity declining even faster in ‘protected’ areas, scientists warn Cop16
Just designating key areas will not meet 30x30 target on nature loss, study says, pointing to oil drilling in parks
Phoebe Weston in Cali
24, Oct, 2024 @5:00 AM
Smoke pollution from wildfires may be killing an extra 12,000 people a year, new research suggests
Global heating particularly increasing risk of death from smoke inhalation in Australia, South America, Europe and parts of Asia
Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent
21, Oct, 2024 @3:00 PM
‘I’ve seen the dark, fat grease stuck to the leaves’: oil and gas encroach on Peru’s uncontacted peoples
The government is auctioning off plots of pristine Indigenous reserves for fossil fuel projects, with campaigners warning of a ‘silent genocide’
Harriet Barber
17, Oct, 2024 @10:00 AM
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