Madagascar mining rush hasn’t caused more deforestation than agriculture, study finds
If tens of thousands of miners showed up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine sapphires, it could ...
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Amazon deforestation driven more by domestic demand than export market, study finds
The Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) – which includes the entire Amazon basin located in Brazil and large adjacent tracts of ...
Cloud cover decreasing due to large-scale deforestation, researchers say
Researchers from iDiv, the University of Leipzig and Sun Yat-sen University in China have discovered that large-scale deforestation has a ...
Rising cloud levels from deforestation threaten African mountain water supplies, study finds
International researchers from Finland, Germany, South Africa and Ethiopia report that deforestation over the past two decades has caused greater ...
Global deforestation leads to more mercury pollution, study finds
About 10% of annual human-caused mercury emissions into the atmosphere are the result of global deforestation, according to a new ...
