Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra ...

In 1997, clouds of smoke hung over the rainforests of Indonesia as an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania was burned to make way for agriculture, the fires exacerbated by drought. Smothered in ...

An AI-generated video of a ‘ruined’ world in the 2100 was shared on social media, which went viral and left netizens reacting ...

Here’s how it works. Humans are destroying forests all over the world in a process called deforestation. Forests are cleared to make space for agriculture, and so humans can use the wood to make ...

Deforestation created conditions for deadly pathogens like Nipah, Lassa, malaria parasites, and Lyme disease bacteria to spill over from wildlife to humans. In Liberia, diverting forests for palm ...

The new data provides a more detailed picture than ever before on the local, regional and global causes of tree cover loss.

“This study is important because it shows that, at least for some of our native species, there is the possibility of adapting to the environmental changes caused by humans, even when the change ...

Urbanization—the expansion of city environments into larger areas—is based on deforestation and land-clearing. As a general rule, species diversity drops once humans dominate an ecosystem.

That is still driving a rise in Congo in clade I cases – also known as clade Ia - likely due in part to deforestation and ... transmit more efficiently among humans than was previously thought.

While eagles and pythons are its natural predators, humans converting the land into ... policy level against the illegal wildlife trade and deforestation concerns. “We have the tools to save ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra ...