Although Earth gained forest cover between 1960 and 1970, the study documented losses every decade after that, with deforestation accelerating rapidly starting in the 1990s. By 2010 to 2019 ...

About 7 km from Maharashtra’s Phaltan tehsil in the biodiverse Satara district is a village named Vinchurni. It has lush forest cover over a green expanse of 120 acres. Its rich biodiversity ...

MORE: How climate change is now threatening the survival of fire-adaptive sequoia trees Tree cover loss due to fires is now twice as high as it was in 2001, with forest fires destroying about 7.4 ...

Since then, initiatives to increase mangrove forest cover have proliferated in the context of climate change, not only because these saltwater-tolerant trees protect coastlines, but also because ...

It was upwards of 90% forest cover. People thought that nature was sort of endless. It was an endless resource, and, you know, learned that it's very finite. People started clearing the land.

A new study weighed a range of threats and variables in an effort to map out where the rainforest is most vulnerable. By Manuela Andreoni Manuela Andreoni has reported extensively from the ...

Trying to judge the success or failure of Yatir, Israel's largest human-made forest, depends on the way ... Semi-arid shrub and grasslands cover nearly a fifth of the planet’s land, some 10 ...