The Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the Earth, is facing one of its most dangerous moments in modern history as ...

A global strategy for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, known as REDD+, is among the key agreements that need to come out of the United Nations climate talks ongoing in ...

Forest destruction in Brazil and Colombia fell "steeply" between 2022 and 2023, according to data from the University of Maryland's GLAD Lab that has been shared on the World Resources Institute's ...

Tropical forests have shown improvement in primary forest loss, with a 9 percent decline compared to 2023. Brazil and Colombia saw reductions in forest loss, attributed to conservation policies and ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler The story of the world’s tropical forests in 2025 was not one of dramatic reversal, but one shaped by ...

* Common figure for forest emissions seen as too high * Rich countries seen having no interest in questioning it * Amazon deforestation seen sharply down this year By Stuart Grudgings RIO DE JANEIRO, ...

A new report shows that wildfires accounted for nearly half of all forest destruction in 2024. Data from the University of Maryland and the World Resources Institute showed that approximately 17 ...

Forests like the Amazon play vital roles in balancing the environment, from storing carbon to releasing oxygen. Silvestre Garcia-IntuitivoFilms/Stone/Getty Images ...

The recent floods and landslides in Sumatra were not solely caused by illegal logging but also by legal deforestation ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Stand.earth unveiled an over 17,000 square foot mural off of Paulista Avenue, one of the busiest commercial thoroughfares in South America, ...

The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023, according to new data by the World Resources Institute and the University of ...

Distinguished Professor Bill Laurance receives funding from the Australian Research Council and other scientific and philanthropic bodies. He is a former Australian Laureate and director of the Centre ...