A new analysis finds global forest maps overlap far less than expected, raising questions about climate funding and ...

For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that ...

A satellite with a 40-foot extendable antenna has launched into space with a giant mission: to map all of the world’s forests — ecosystems that are crucial for absorbing carbon and slowing climate ...

“If you can imagine walking into a huge, 1,000-kilometer square [386-square-mile] tropical forest … it’s moist and damp [with] rich soil and an overstory. You imagine walking into a 10-meter [33-foot] ...

Record-breaking forest loss in 2024: Tropical primary rainforest loss surged to 6.7 million hectares—nearly double the previous year—driven primarily by fire for the first time on record. Latin ...

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate of 10 million hectares each year and about 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to deforestation and forest degradation. But nature ...

Large intact forests and connected landscapes support biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Globally, more than half of the world’s forests became more fragmented between 2000 and 2020, according to a ...