The Latest Breaking News from Deforestation

Less office waste material during Covid has led big lavatory roll makers to cut amount of recycled paper in tissues, according to consumer body

Our love of luxury toilet roll is sadly a bum deal for the environment: our profligate wiping habits mean about 1m trees are felled daily. You can help, writes Christian Koch

A coalition of activist groups and researchers has released a report it hopes will increase pressure on agribusiness giant Cargill to do more to fight deforestation and human rights abuse

From Russia's war against Ukraine to US rivalry with China, tectonic geopolitical shifts have shaken multilateralism in recent years. While many of the consequences, from surging food and energy prices to the rising risks of major conflict, have been discussed at length, more attention must be devoted to the implications…

They are a poster child for imminent extinction, at risk from deforestation, climate change and bushfires. Yet, where I live in South Australia, they are so abundant they are in danger of eating themselves out of house and home.

Indigenous peoples are increasingly recognised as the most effective custodians of the world’s remaining forests.

With toilet paper contributing to mass deforestation, Emily Hill looks into what we can do to make our loo habits less damaging to nature

Brazil's government on Monday unveiled how it plans to meet a pledge to eliminate deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, using strengthened law enforcement against environmental crimes and other measures in the world's largest tropical rainforest.

As the world’s biggest rainforest degrades fast towards its tipping point, finding solutions is more urgent than ever. But who to ask first and where to begin?

From mining to cattle ranching and soya farming, some of the world’s largest companies exploit the region, though many also claim to be giving something back

Investigation involving Guardian shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming in Brazil