Satellite data show a 37% deforestation decrease in the world's largest rainforest last year, the lowest level of Amazon ...

The collapse of a landmark Amazon soy pact will drive at least 1.4 million hectares (3.5 million acres) of extra ...

Tropical forests are essential for biodiversity, climate regulation and carbon storage. Yet they continue to disappear at an ...

By Naina Rao Decades of unchecked deforestation for coffee production has devastated Vietnam’s Central Highland forests, ...

The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in a decade in the first half of the year, according to ...

The Republic of Congo had been protecting about half of its dense rainforests via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) framework. In exchange, the country is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. As 2025 begins, the future of the world’s tropical forests hangs in the balance, shaped by a confluence of political, economic, and environmental ...

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 ...

Planet China: Third in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. Chinese banks have become the biggest international funders of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest. Read the paper: ...