Humans have cleared forests for thousands of years. Modern deforestation, however, has pushed the world’s forests ...
Discover the science behind global tree counts, where the world's forests are located, how many we've lost and the challenges ...
Satellite data show a 37% deforestation decrease in the world's largest rainforest last year, the lowest level of Amazon destruction since 2014.
Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...
From January to June, trees were felled across 1,295 square kilometres (500 square miles) -- an area almost twice the size of ...
The Amazon rainforest is one of the largest carbon reservoirs on Earth. It is also the world's largest source of biogenic ...
Hotter temperatures and harsher droughts could cause Indigenous societies to lose many of the species they have used for medicine, rituals and more, scientists found. By Raymond Zhong and Flávia ...
Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the Earth. According to Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...