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Mars Inc., maker of M&M’s, Milky Way and other stalwarts of the nation’s Halloween candy bag, vowed in 2009 to switch entirely to sustainable cocoa to combat deforestation, a major contributor to climate change.

Environmental justice NGO Global Witness has released a new report into international financing of deforestation.It said six companies associated with destruction of the world's main forests received US$44 billion in finance over the past six years.

Losing undisturbed tropical forests is more devastating for the planet than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances.

It's no secret that the forests of the world are under severe pressure from human activities. We tend to think of tropical forests, and in particular the Amazon, as bearing the brunt of the impacts of deforestation and other drivers of forest clearance.

Having a cocaine habit is bad for your health – and for the planet’s too, as it turns out that the growing use of the drug is also contributing to global warming.

It’s tempting to think that our forests would be fine if we could simply stop trees being felled or burnt. But forests – particularly tropical ones – are more than just trees. They’re also the animals that skulk and swoop among them.

Since 2015 the Australian government has committed more than $1.5bn of taxpayer funds to climate change projects that plant or protect native habitat. Over a slightly longer period it has also spent nearly $62m on a policy to plant 20 million trees promised under Tony Abbott.

Pacific forestry leaders have agreed to set reforestation and native forest protection targets in a bid to help slow climate change. The agreement came as part of the Pacific Week of Agriculture in Samoa.

The recent anthropogenic wildfire tragedies across the globe affect those on the ground the most. They witness this destruction of habitat first-hand, and in most cases, are burdened with finding the solutions to stop it.

Wildfires are currently burning so intensely in the Amazon rainforest that smoke from the blaze has covered nearby cities in a dark haze. The blazes are so huge that smoke can be seen from space, and experts say the fires could have major climate impacts.