Tropical forest loss saw a decline in 2023, but there is still an ongoing pressure on woodlands globally, according to an analysis released on Thursday.

While most tropical countries experienced record-high deforestation rates in 2024, Indonesia’s forest loss is slowing, ...

"The results underscore the importance of animals in maintaining healthy, carbon-rich tropical forests," says Evan Fricke, a ...

BRUSSELS — Tropical forest loss rocketed to a 20-year high in 2024 as climate-change-fueled wildfires tore through some of the planet’s most important natural carbon sinks.

She has found that between 10 and 15 million acres of tropical forests, an area larger than Switzerland, has been razed in Southeast Asia alone since the 1990s to feed our hunger for rubber.

The BR-319 highway, which runs through the rainforest, connects the states of Amazonas and Roraima to the rest of Brazil.

Fires blaze across the Amazon forest in Altamira in Pará in 2019, one of the state’s worst years for fires and deforestation. Most Amazon deforestation is caused by slash and burn agriculture ...

High rates of tropical forest loss remain “stubbornly consistent” despite nations pledging in recent years to protect these critical environments, said researchers from the World Resources ...

Modeling suggests that tropical forests can withstand up to a 3.9 degree Celsius increase over current air temperatures before a potential tipping point is reached, which is within the worst-case ...

APP is the third largest producer of pulp and paper in the world and responsible for the destruction of enormous areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Alone in the province Riau which is located ...

Tropical fruit-eating birds are so much more than just eye candy. These wildly colored avians are also a vital part of regenerating tropical forests. Data gathered on the ground in the Atlantic ...

Deforestation is one of the biggest drivers of the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Each year, tropical forests covering an area at least equal to the size of New York state are ...