Another cause of deforestation is fires, which can occur due to either natural causes like lightning and drought or be man-made. Often, fire is purposefully used to convert forests into areas for ...

Aug 10 (Reuters) - Brazil vowed last year to halt deforestation by 2030, yet the number of fires burning in the country's Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high in June. Burning season began last ...

Gold mining in the Amazon is devastating soil and water; combined with heat, water loss, and topsoil depletion, it's stalling ...

Amazon deforestation causes strong regional warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2023; 120 (45) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2309123120 Cite This Page : ...

Logging is also a major cause of deforestation worldwide. Fire also causes deforestation. Wildfires can be natural, and these are made worse by drought. But in some areas of the world, like the Amazon ...

Companies such as Mars and PepsiCo are 'failing to address the root causes of their carbon emissions', the Corporate Climate ...

THE COCOA supply chain, much like a high-end bar of chocolate, is complex, opaque and a little nutty. Farmers, mainly in West Africa, sell their crop to local intermediaries, who in turn sell to ...

Initial signs, however, are that those concerns did not materialize. Deforestation in the Amazon causes the loss of many species and their habitats, negatively impacts indigenous people and their ...