In both countries, recently elected presidents vowed to protect rainforests and reduce deforestation. So far, they’re ...
Much credit goes to Lula. In June he pledged to end deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by 2030. He promised to reverse many of the anti-environmental measures put in place by his predecessor, Jair ...
The tropics continue to lose primary forest at an alarming rate, with an area of tree cover half the size of Panama ...
Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland ...
During a meeting in Bogotá with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Colombian President Gustavo Petro ...
A drop in forest loss in Brazil and Colombia was offset by rises in Indonesia, Laos, Bolivia and others. Read more at ...
The Amazon rainforest, for instance, is home to at least 10% of ... Neighboring Colombia experienced a 49% drop in forest ...
Two countries in the Amazon basin have slowed deforestation through community peacemaking.
A staggering equivalent of ten football pitches of tropical forests, totaling 3.7 million hectares, vanished every minute in ...
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, acting as a mediator in Venezuela’s political crisis, is proposing a democratic pact ...
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Democratic pact between government, opposition would guarantee life and political rights of runner-up of July 28 election ...