Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

A new study conducted by a team of British and Brazilian scientists sheds light on the alarming consequence of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The study unveiled that Amazon deforestation is ...

Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large areas of forest can trigger severe and lasting reductions in rainfall ...

New research examines the 'revolution' in the study of deforestation brought about by satellites, and analyzing which kinds of policies might limit climate-altering deforestation. Imagine if France, ...

The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, African Forest Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, Prof. Labode Popoola, has identified lack of consequences for conservation (wise use) and deforestation as ...

Imagine if France, Germany, and Spain were completely blanketed in forests — and then all those trees were quickly chopped down. That’s nearly the amount of deforestation that occurred globally ...