The Atlantic Forest, extending along Brazil’s eastern coast, was once among the most biodiverse ecosystems globally.

Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent ...

A new study finds flaws in forest carbon credit baselines that could allow countries to earn billions without cutting ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon drove roughly three-quarters of the region’s dry-season rainfall decline between 1985 ...

This paper studies how global warming affects deforestation and agricultural land use. Using high-resolution satellite data on global temperature, deforestation, and land cover from 2001 to 2019, we ...

A major carbon credit program may reward deforestation instead of reducing it, raising new concerns about the integrity of ...

When a forest is lost to development, some effects are obvious. Stumps and mud puddles across the landscape, a plowed field or houses a year after that. But deforestation isn't just a loss of trees; ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to extensive deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin, and ...

A single tropical tree can create as much cooling as several air conditioners, and across forests can cool a whole region.

Over four years after promises to clean supply chains, the U.K.’s cocoa imports continue to drive deforestation in West ...

The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, African Forest Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, Prof. Labode Popoola, has identified lack of consequences for conservation (wise use) and deforestation as ...