Now, researchers are concerned about the potential for another El Niño, which typically brings hotter, drier conditions to tropical regions, particularly in Southeast Asia, and can compound the ...

Do the impacts of deforestation go beyond the environment? What about human health, specifically the health of children? This is what a recent study published in Economics & Human Biology hopes to ...

Deforestation causes different subregional effects on the Amazon bioclimatic equilibrium. Geophysical Research Letters , 40 (14), 3618-3623. doi: 10.1002/grl.50570 ...

In Indonesia, environmental groups say deforestation is worsening the effects of natural disasters such as floods, landslides, drought and forest fires. Indonesia's deforestation is intensifying ...

In two separate Reviews, researchers underscore the rapid and profound changes occurring in the Amazon resulting from ever-increasing human activity. They discuss what’s known about the drivers ...

Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could transform into grasslands or weakened ecosystems in the coming decades, a new study found, as climate change, deforestation and severe droughts like the ...