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 has been described in terms of its enormous size, biodiversity and importance to the global climate.

The numbers that should change how you think about mangroves A single hectare of mangrove forest stores up to 1,000 tonnes of ...

Clear-cut swaths of the Amazon rain forest in Quiandeua, Brazil, are often planted with manioc, or cassava, a shrub grown for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deforestation in parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil declined to its lowest levels in more than a decade, a good sign for ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through enormous swaths of the Amazon, releasing masses of planet-warming carbon ...

The Republic of Congo had been protecting about half of its dense rainforests via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) framework. In exchange, the country is ...

Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent research in Nature Climate Change shows that clearing large areas of the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon remains near a six-year low, with 561 square kilometers cleared in September, a 30% decline from the previous ...

For years, the Amazon rainforest has been being cleared. The concern is that this unique ecosystem could collapse. However, Lula da Silva’s election as president brought hope. He announced that he ...

Although rainforests cover only a small percentage of Earth's total surface area, they're home to half of the world's plant and animal species. As the name suggests, rainforests are also very wet: ...