New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a ...

The sovereign-backed investment fund for forests could generate far more money for conservation than traditional donor models ...

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

Satellite technologies developed at the University of Sheffield could help shift the balance in global climate crises as they ...

The Caatinga is the only biome found exclusively in Brazil and is home to the largest contiguous area of seasonally dry ...

The deforestation and forest degradation associated with the secondary roads also varied greatly across regions. In the Congo Basin, deforestation associated with secondary roads was 31.5 times ...

Tropical forests play a crucial role in protecting the planet from some of the worst effects of global warming because they ...