The likelihood that you use products with palm oil is pretty high: the ingredient is in half of all products on supermarket shelves, in everything from ice cream and lipstick to shampoo and laundry ...

Brazil’s National Statistics Office (IBGE) released a set of maps showing how farmers are converting the Amazon rainforest into cattle pasture and soybean farms. The maps show for the first time the ...

Forests around the world are disappearing at an astonishing rate. But now, these trees won't fall without a sound. A new map and website called Global Forest Watch provides the first near-real-time ...

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) plans to roll out an interactive map showing the spread of plantations and roads in Indonesia’s Papua region. The region is home to some of the ...

There's no question that deforestation is a problem, as it affects everything from climate through to biodiversity. But gauging the severity of deforestation isn't easy -- simply measuring lost forest ...

It’s a hot morning in the Lampung province on the southern edge of Sumatra and coffee grower Wiyono is leading two field agents to his farm, one holding a 2-meter black pole with a GPS unit on the end ...

A new global map of deforestation reveals that 888,000 square miles (2.3 million square kilometers) of forest has vanished since 2000. The interactive map (viewable online ) is based on satellite data ...

Under the new rules, importers will be required to prove products they bring into the EU — including beef, timber, soy and dairy — have not come from land that has been deforested or degraded since ...

The Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union has so far managed to map out about 5,000 farms out of its 557,000 members, at a cost of some $4 a farm. Oromia has recently set up a database of farmers, ...