Explore 12 key environmental facts about Brazil in 2025, from Amazon deforestation trends and renewable energy expansion to COP30 preparations and biodiversity conservation.
COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025
2024 forest loss data shows wildfires are driving global forest losses
In 2024, wildfires surpassed logging as the main cause of record tropical forest loss, resulting in significant greenhouse gas emissions.
Viewpoint: Empowering Indigenous communities through reforestation
Gareth Lloyd’s outlines the path and objective for starting Truly Nuts!.
Viewpoint: What about half the meat?
The value of a balanced diet.
Analysis: Energy needs drive deforestation in Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Lacking alternatives, the region’s rural inhabitants have long turned to the forest for fuel, but the environmental consequences are building.
Cyclist to honour the memory of Gino Mäder through climate action
Pello Bilbao honors Gino Mäder’s environmental legacy by donating €1 to BaSOS for each rider finishing behind him in the Tour de France.
Big banks linked to deforestation that threatens Indigenous people
Report shows US and EU financiers back meat firms in Paraguay whose activities put Ayoreo people at risk.
Colombia targets reforestation growth
Colombia sets ambitious reforest targets.
Analysis: New pipelines will fragment Assam’s protected forests, say environmentalists
Nearly 3,000 trees are to be felled during the construction of oil and gas pipelines in northeast India, in protected areas that are home to endangered species such as the western hoolock gibbon and white-winged duck.
Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation
Experts call for stronger land use planning as the extent of Indonesian forest loss is revealed.
A greener life, a greener world 