"Unprecedented." Researchers discover 'unsung heroes' protecting Amazon rainforest: 'The guards also cut off access' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Climate skeptics are targeting new research on the Amazon to downplay global warming's impact on rainforests as Brazil ...

Human Rights Watch found a major international company could be sourcing cattle from ranches linked to deforestation.

The 2025 Global Tipping Points Report warns that preventing the widespread die-off of coral reefs will now require immense effort. In a new report released on October 13, 2025, a team of international ...

Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese ...

Avoiding products that drive deforestation is an easy step one ...

An annual progress report shows that agriculture and wildfires continue to decimate forests despite a global promise to stop ...

A new study reveals that gold mining in the Amazon alters the soil and dries out the land, preventing forest regeneration.

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a ...

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and ...

The world faces a “new reality” as we have reached the first of many Earth system tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action, according to a landmark report ...

Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a ...