The likelihood that you use products with palm oil is pretty high: the ingredient is in half of all products on supermarket shelves, in everything from ice cream and lipstick to shampoo and laundry ...

In an effort to achieve a deforestation-free coffee industry, several major players have launched the Coffee Canopy ...

With enforcement of a new deforestation law on the horizon, stakeholders along the food supply chain and working to ensure compliance. We look at the new tools and services being developed that ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Deforestation globally increased by 4% in 2022 over 2021, with over 6.6m hectares of forest lost AI enables prediction of ...

Scientists have long known that countries in the tropics are cutting down their rain forests and digging up peatlands to make room for agriculture — and at a rapid rate. These trees and soil contain ...

Online map reveals link between deforestation and rises in tropical temperatures Deforestation is leading to temperature increases of up to 5°C in some tropical regions, according to data revealed in ...

Some of the world’s top coffee traders and roasters are starting an initiative to map farms around the globe, in a bid to ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%. The loss of vegetation leads to an increase in surface temperature, a ...

Farmers in north-central Brazil, where the savanna meets the Amazon rainforest, are clearing land at an unprecedented rate. The government hasn’t stopped the cutting, partly because it is using ...

Deforestation has reduced rainfall over the Amazon, suggesting the rainforest could reach a catastrophic tipping point sooner than expected. Satellite observations and rain gauge measurements show ...

A coalition of major coffee companies and commodity traders has come together to launch a new satellite-powered monitoring ...