Deforestation
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Deforestation rates in Brazil's Amazon dropped 45% last year over 2008's figures, continuing a five-year trend. But don't celebrate just yet.
Would you run down a mountain for some cheese? Does money really make the world go round? And hey, where did that lake come from?
Ministers from 64 nations attend meeting in Paris to address how to implement forest-preserving measures agreed on in principle at Copenhagen climate talks.
Welfare minister questions whether land-clearing practices at the Perkebunan Teh Dewata plantation in West Java are to blame.
Getting farmers to rotating crops, timber and cattle could increase productivity of the land and slow deforestation.
Adventurer Doug Gunzelmann set out to bike across the Amazon jungle to see the destruction firsthand.
Experts say deforestation in Haiti -- leaving the nation with less than 2 percent forest cover -- contributes to erosion that undermines food output.
Forestry officials warn investors of the government's history of financial mismanagement before millions of dollars are spent on the greenhouse gas offset scheme.
Artist and designer Maya Lin debuts her newest work, Unchopping a Tree, in Copenhagen to draw attention to the dangers of deforestation.
