Deforestation slowed worldwide last year, but the improvement is unlikely to last as the situation deteriorates in Central ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's progress in curbing deforestation across the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado savanna over the past three years has spared the global economy an estimated ...

Researchers from iDiv, Leipzig University and Sun Yat-sen University in China have found that large-scale deforestation has a greater warming effect on the climate than previously thought. Their ...

A new study states that the combination of global warming and extreme heat events, alongside the continued expansion of deforestation in the world, may be devastating for many species of animals, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped to its lowest level since March 2018, according to new data from the Brazilian government.

Environmental watchdog Mighty Earth reveals two-year effort to postpone and weaken EU Deforestation Regulation ...

Agriculture is the foundation of human civilization and a prime example of our impact on Earth. Almost 40% of our planet's ice-free land surface, most of which was previously forested, is now ...

Deforestation in the Philippines is a systemic crisis conventionally framed as a forestry problem involving legal or illegal logging or slash-and-burn agriculture. But it can be described more ...

Every time I visit a developing country, I see the same scene: plantations being opened one after another on scorched earth, ...

Deforestation is the permanent clearing and repurposing of previously forested land. Though there are a number of motivations behind deforestation, it’s generally carried out to repurpose the land for ...