Solutionswww.flickr.com Companies have failed to stop deforestation. Can that change in time to save the Amazon rainforest? The situation is dire now, but there are also signs that businesses are beginning to find better solutions.
Politics Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows One of the main fears about the Brazilian Amazon is beginning to materialize: logging is starting to move from the periphery of the rainforest toward the core of the biome, groundbreaking new research shows.
Politics www.nytimes.com ‘It’s really close’: How the Amazon rainforest could self-destruct Climate change and man-made fires could set off a cycle of self-perpetuating deforestation, scientists warn.