Sep 13 Watch 10:05 Amazon forest guardians fight to prevent catastrophic tipping point In Brazil's Maranhao State, indigenous groups are battling a powerful logging mafia to protect the region's remaining and fragile Amazon rainforest. After years of decline, deforestation is again on the rise, threatening a terrifying climate change tipping point. Special correspondent… Continue watching
Dec 13 Amazonian fish need tropical forests to survive By Teresa Carey Fisheries ecologists at Virginia Tech have found a link between tropical forest loss in the Amazon and declines in freshwater fish populations. Continue reading
Sep 28 Tropical forests now emit more carbon than they soak up By Teresa Carey Due to human destruction, tropical forests, long considered to be "carbon sinks," now produce more carbon emissions each year than all U.S. cars and trucks combined, according to a study published Thursday in Science. Continue reading
Sep 08 Where will wild things go once their land is gone? By Leigh Anne Tiffany In just two decades, the world has lost about a tenth of its wilderness, according to a new study. Continue reading
Aug 26 Can cash incentives reduce deforestation in rural Uganda? By Making Sen$e Editor A pilot program, which paid households in 60 villages to refrain from cutting down trees, put a significant dent in the pace of deforestation in the test area. Continue reading
Jun 30 Brazil aims to curb deforestation as part of climate pledge By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Brazil pledged Tuesday to restore millions of acres of forests and expand renewable energy use, as the United States and Brazil worked to build momentum toward a budding global climate treaty. Continue reading
Mar 02 World’s tropical forests vanishing more rapidly than previously thought By Ariel Min From the Amazon to the Philippines, world’s tropical forests are vanishing at a much faster rate than previously reported, says a new study of satellite images of 80 percent of the world’s tropical forests. Continue reading
Jul 06 Indonesia reaches highest deforestation rate in the world By Xander Landen Indonesia has the highest deforestation rate in the world, according to a study published in the journal "Nature Climate Change" in June. Continue reading
Dec 16 Watch Nations Pledge $3.5B to Cut Carbon Emissions, Deforestation Six nations pledged $3.5 billion to cut carbon emissions and deforestation through a new program called REDD. Jonathon Miller of Independent Television News examines how the United Nations-sponsored plan will work. Continue watching
Dec 16 Watch In Copenhagen, Tensions Rise Inside and Outside Summit Protesters outside the Copenhagen climate change summit clashed with police on Wednesday as more than 100 world leaders made their way to the Danish capital. Negotiators continue to battle over reaching a climate agreement in the conference's waning days. Continue watching