Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%. The loss of vegetation leads to an increase in surface temperature, a ...

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 ...

A new WWF report, From Past to Future: How Business-as-Usual Cocoa Drives Forest Loss and What We Can Do, reveals that cocoa cultivation, long associated with deforestation in West Africa, is now ...

Deforestation in ​Brazil's Amazon rainforest ‌fell 35.4% ​from August 2025 to January ‌2026, compared with the same period a year earlier, government data showed ‌on Thursday. * The Amazon ‌logged the ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

The Brazilian government has built a map to help commodity exporters comply with the European Union’s new regulation on deforestation-free products, or EUDR. The country’s National Space Research ...

Rice University biologist Amy Dunham has spent decades studying the mountainous rainforests of Madagascar's Ranomafana ...