Bolivia has certified more than two million hectares of its forests, making the South American country the world leader in tropical forest certification.

LA PAZ, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country's defense ministry announced on Saturday. In a press conference, defense minister Edmundo ...

Under the $1.2 billion sale, Bolivia is supposed to avoid 100 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions from the nations’ forests over a five-year period.

IDEAS Bolivia’s Amazon is burning Once a sink for greenhouse gases, the rainforest, converted to farmland by slash-and-burn agriculture, is fast becoming a source of them.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Wildfires in Bolivia are now running on a track to set an all-time record, latest satellite data show, with fire hot-spots to-date overtaking the rate in the same period during ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivia aims to sell US$5 billion (S$6.7 billion) worth of carbon offset credits, the government announced on Nov 14, in a bid to shore up its economy and finance efforts to stop ...

If there is an ecosystem that captures my imagination, it is the cloud forests, or perhaps better called, “the forests of the clouds.” Walking underneath their damp and dark canopy brimming ...

MONTEVIDEO, June 28 (Reuters) - Forest loss in Bolivia accelerated by about a third last year with clearances in the country trailing only giant neighbor Brazil and the Democratic Republic of ...

Bolivian authorities are striving to prevent an increase in forest fires at its border with Argentina, after almost one million hectares (2.47 million acres) ravaged the eastern part of the ...

Bolivia has a limited number of firefighters to fight forest fires in the country, but the government has mobilized 10,513 military personnel to work to mitigate fire risks, according to Civil ...