Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and ...

By Mongabay.com The Brazilian government in 2023 announced a novel funding mechanism to incentivize forest preservation: the ...

Satellite imagery helps to identify two hotspots of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest along Brazil’s eastern coast.

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a […] ...

New study shows Amazon rainfall stable despite deforestation, but seasonal shifts threaten regional ecosystem balance.

Tropical forests lose species due to humans, even inside protected areas. Scientists found that forests near people have ...

Researchers reveal that meeting 2050’s vegetable oil demand could drive up to 148 million hectares of deforestation and 1525 ...

Biodiversity loss has accelerated at an alarming rate in recent decades, driven largely by human activities such as clearing ...

Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent. And if current deforestation rates continue, these critical habitats could disappear from the ...

The risks of deforestation in these areas are high ... Indonesia has the third-largest tropical forest area in the world, after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo. These forests store ...