Forests like the Amazon play vital roles in balancing the environment, from storing carbon to releasing oxygen. Silvestre Garcia-IntuitivoFilms/Stone/Getty Images ...

New satellite data documents the loss of vegetation in all types of ecosystems, not just tropical rainforests, around the world. The OPERA DIST-ALERT was developed by the makers of popular forest ...

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We love to look at them, walk among them. We also love to do things like live on a habitable planet and breathe – two things trees help us do by pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and pumping ...

At last week’s Web Summit in Doha, Princess Lamia Bint Majid Al Saud announced an initiative by the Alwaleed Philanthropies to use satellite data combined with AI to create a publicly available web ...

A new art installation is opening to highlight the issue of deforestation around the world. Tipping Point, by Bristol artist Luke Jerram, will combine smoke, lights and sound to simulate forest fires.

A new report reveals that the United States imported palm oil, cattle products, soybeans, cocoa, rubber, coffee and corn linked to an area of tropical deforestation the size of Los Angeles between ...

WWF welcomes HCS Convergence Working Group's announcement today that they have reached an agreement on a single, coherent set of principles for implementation of companies’ commitments to "no ...