FACTBOX-Global tropical forest loss falls in 2021 but outlook bleak
Brazil saw the largest forest losses due to commercial clearing, followed by Democratic Republic of Congo, while palm oil giants Indonesia and Malaysia made headway in stemming deforestation
OPINION: South Asia faces a deadly heatwave. Here’s what to do about it
Pakistan and India are confronting brutal temperatures this week - but preparing better and shoring up water and power supplies could save lives
Wet weather dampens rainforest loss in 2021 but world far off ending it
Fewer fires led to lower levels of tropical forest loss last year but governments will need to act much faster to meet a promise to end deforestation by 2030
As India swelters under extreme heat, Modi warns of fire risk
Extreme heat has swept across large areas of India and Pakistan this week, with more than a billion people at risk of heat-related health impacts, scientists warn
Here's how to reverse Africa's land degradation
From South Africa to Kenya, Africa is fast losing healthy land - but solutions are emerging
Can tech help hold climate polluters to their net-zero pledges?
Countries, states and companies have made voluntary net-zero pledges, but tracking progress on them is a challenge. Can automation and other tech advances speed efforts?
U.S. to boost green jobs, curb emissions by plugging old oil and gas wells
As many as 120,000 jobs could be created by stopping abandoned oil and gas wells leaking climate-warming methane into the atmosphere
Humanity on 'spiral of self-destruction' as disasters rise, UN warns
Disasters have cost an average of about $170 billion each year in the last decade but developing nations and their poorest people suffering disproportionately
U.S. firefighters on climate frontlines sound alarm over staffing
From California to North Carolina, U.S. states face an ever-lengthening fire season, but firefighters fear unfilled vacancies will leave them short of hands to combat wildfires
OPINION: An ecosystem of organized crime threatens the Amazon, and global climate action
For all the talk about how destruction in the Amazon leads to greenhouse gases, there is less discussion about how to rein in the increasingly agile cabal of criminal entrepreneurs