Everyday foods are emerging as key drivers of global deforestation, with impacts spread across many countries rather than a ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Rice, maize, and cassava crops cumulatively account for approximately 11% of total global deforestation—exceeding that of cocoa, coffee, and rubber—according to an analysis between 2001 and 2022, ...

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; ...

By Marcela Ayres, Lisandra Paraguassu and Manuela Andreoni BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) - After struggling for years ...

These reptiles move around tree trunks to seek warmth or shade. With trees disappearing, they would have trouble controlling their body temperature, a new study shows. In Colorado, people flock to the ...

Brazil Enlists Bank Managers To Combat Deforestation. After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world's largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new allies in the battle ...