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

By Rhett Ayers Butler The story of the world’s tropical forests in 2025 was not one of dramatic reversal, but one shaped by accumulated pressure. In several regions, deforestation slowed. In others, ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in ...

The first roads that cut through rainforests are well-known conduits for deforestation. However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest ...

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

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 rainforests are home to almost two-thirds of all vertebrate species and three-quarters of all tree species: they are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GOSHEN — A billboard at the south edge of Goshen highlights the deforestation and habitat loss in southeast Asia driven in part, ...