A file picture from 2021 showing deforestation near the border of Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Brazil. Deforestation on a smaller scale has an equally negative impact on the climate, a ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

The planet lost more than 1 billion acres of forest between 1960 and 2019, according to a new study published this week in the journal Environmental Research Letters. This deforestation happened ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study shows concerning links between deforestation and reduced precipitation in tropical regions, which can in turn lead to reduced ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Deforestation globally increased by 4% in 2022 over 2021, with over 6.6m hectares of forest lost AI enables prediction of ...

The pace of deforestation increased 10 percent in 2022, but there are signs the trajectory may change for the better in the near future. By Manuela Andreoni More than a year after countries pledged to ...

The world lost a Cuba-sized area of tropical forest in 2021, putting it far off track from meeting the no-deforestation goal by 2030 that governments and companies committed to at last year’s COP26 ...

The Amazon Basin is covered by nearly eight million square kilometers of tropical forest, which equate to an area more than twice the size of India. As a resource-rich forest, the Amazon is being ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

This project aims to strengthen capacity of four developing countries to develop and implement integrated forest landscape restoration plans to halt deforestation, tackle its drivers and its ...