Category: deforestation

Brazilian President’s Approach to Amazonian Deforestation Leans on ‘Old Corruption Schemes’ and US Funding: Analysts

Politicians who vow to end deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon aren’t anything new. However, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva claimed he could pull it off by 2030 with assistance from U.S. President Joe Biden. When the Brazilian president—commonly known as Lula—made a passionate campaign promise in 2022 to end Amazonian deforestation, it was an instant…


A Unique Feature of the Aussie Christmas May Be in Decline

Researchers from the University of Sydney suspect that the iconic Australian Christmas beetle is in decline and are imploring Aussies to assist scientists in a country-wide beetle population count. In an email to The Epoch Times, Assoc. Prof. Tanya Latty, from Sydney University, said that it’s not known for sure that Christmas beetles have declined, as long-term…


Solar’s Lofty Ambitions Are Consuming Ever-Larger Expanses of Land Down Below

Wedged in the southern flank of Virginia, Charlotte County is home to some 11,500 people who live amidst rolling hills and family farms, pastures and sawmills, a historic Civil War battlefield, and four townlets tinier than many suburban subdivisions. But this pastoral tableau will be swept up in the green revolution when construction begins here on…


Coming to Terms With the Labyrinthine World of Climate Change

Commentary As the Glasgow Conference of Parties (COP26)—countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994—fades into history, it is timely to assess the success, or lack of it, of this intergovernmental summit. Delegates at the Glasgow summit reviewed the progress made by 196 countries that embraced the legally binding…


More Than 100 World Leaders Support Landmark Agreement to Halt and Reverse Deforestation and Land Degradation by 2030

More than 100 world leaders have committed to support a landmark agreement to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030, the UK government announced on Monday. The leaders, representing over 86 percent of the world’s forests, agreed to work together on the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use at the COP26 climate summit, also called Conference…


More Than 100 World Leaders Support Agreement to Reverse Deforestation and Land Degradation by 2030

More than 100 world leaders have committed to support an agreement to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030, the UK government announced on Monday. The leaders, representing over 86 percent of the world’s forests, agreed to work together on the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use at the COP26 climate summit, also called Conference of…