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

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

With new cocoa farms opening up on the edges of the forested areas, trees are often cut down to plant more shrubs. However, ...

Deforestation in tropical countries could contribute to increased deaths from heat exposure in nearby populations, new research has shown. Published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, the ...

The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports of ...

COP30 is expected to hold talks on “ending deforestation” after developers carved a four-lane highway through protected tracts of the Amazon rainforest to facilitate attendees. The massive United ...

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

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

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

SAR-powered monitoring delivers reliable insights through cloud cover, enabling near real-time response to illegal logging and mining HELSINKI, Finland, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ICEYE, a global ...

Industrial palm oil plantations have pushed deeper into forests on Borneo, according to a peer-reviewed study tracking ...