TORONTO (CTV Network) — About a third of the remaining Amazon rainforest has been severely degraded by human activity, and the emissions from this activity are equivalent to or even greater than ...

New research suggests that the loss of forest habitat increases contact between humans and nonhuman primates — and therefore the transmission of diseases from animals to humans, as with coronavirus ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began this year's COP30 summit by announcing a global investment fund to pay tropical forest countries to keep trees standing.

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the ...

While delegates gathered in Belem, around 180 kilometres away, in Tome-Acu, trucks transported wood from a deforested area of ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra Leone's flagship national parks, where unprecedented deforestation and ...

Bat researchers in Australia noticed that when a bat habitat is degraded through deforestation and food is less available, the hungry bats search for food in areas where humans and farm animals live.

Jonathan Waters receives funding from the RSNZ Marsden Fund. Graham McCulloch receives funding from the RSNZ Marsden Fund University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.

FILE - Cars sit parked at a Cargill Inc., turkey processing plant on Aug. 4, 2011, in Springdale, Ark. An activist group and researchers tried to increase pressure on agribusiness giant Cargill on ...

(Berlin) – The European Union is adopting an important new law to require EU-based companies to ensure that their imports and exports are “deforestation-free” and uphold human rights, Human Rights ...