The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future ...

Extreme weather, pest outbreaks and overharvesting are turning forest carbon sinks into carbon sources across Europe, ...

Forests are some of the Earth’s most vital ecosystems, playing a crucial role in supporting biodiversity, regulating the climate, and providing resources for countless species, including humans. But ...

Snakes live almost everywhere on Earth, except the polar regions, where it’s too cold for these cold-blooded animals. Snakes ...

The Cerrado, a wooded savannah in Brazil, remains a hotspot for deforestation as companies make the most of laws allowing ...

A new dataset and analysis released by World Resources Institute finds global tropical forest loss jumped to a record high in 2024, with 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) worldwide.

that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed last year due in large measure to fires fuelled by climate change, researchers reported Wednesday. Neighbouring Bolivia's forest loss ...

Tally it all up and the world lost 67,000 square kilometres of precious primary tropical forest, an area double the size of Belgium or Taiwan. The loss was 80% higher than in 2023, according to ...

Tally it all up and the world lost 67,000 square kilometers (25,900 square miles) of precious primary tropical forest, an area double the size of Belgium or Taiwan. “This level of forest ...

Brazil, set to host the COP30 climate conference later this year, lost the largest area of tropical forest in 2024. The world lost a record amount of forest in 2024, driven by a catastrophic rise ...

The record comes as the EU has decided to delay anti-deforestation rules and pull back other environmental protections in a bid to boost economic competitiveness. BRUSSELS — Tropical forest loss ...