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We all love a cup of coffee in the morning, but a recent study has found that Western consumption of coffee can cause deforestation of approxi…
Ornithologist Vladimir Ivanovsky has built about 695 bird nests on tree tops to help conserve the avian population in Belarus. It’s a good thi…
In short, not so good. Global Forest Watch found that the world lost some 3.8 million hectares of tropical primary forest in 2019 — equivalent to one soccer field every six seconds and an area about the size of Switzerland in total.
According to the American Paper and Forest Association, upwards of two-thirds of all paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling in 2018.
You can help reforest parts of the world through the Rainforest Trust and Rainforest Alliance. The Rainforest Trust allows you to restrict your donations to a specific project. The Rainforest Alliance says 100% of your donation will help stop deforestation in Brazil right now. They are working with local groups at the forefront of this fight. Part of the Alliance's work strives to make Brazil's current ranches and farms more productive.
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square miles of the rainforest this year.
“Deforestation is largely due to land clearing for agricultural purposes, particularly cattle ranching but also soybean production,” writes Rachel Garrett, a professor at Boston University who studies land use in Brazil.
Here are a few things you can do to help the trees, the animals who live there and, ultimately, yourself.
At least four people were injured over a period of more than seven hours as officials tried to catch the animal and tranquilize it.
