Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, World Forest ID, University of Sheffield and international collaborators have ...

Everyday foods are emerging as key drivers of global deforestation, with impacts spread across many countries rather than a few hotspots.

Figures 12-14 are the land use/land cover maps of existing forest reserves in the FCT, namely; Tufa in Abaji, Chihuma, Chikwei, Kusoru and Shaba in Bwari, Maje Abuchi in Gwagwalada, then, Buga Hill, ...

Maize, rice and cassava drive more deforestation than major export-oriented crops like cocoa, coffee, and rubber. This has been shown by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in ...

A new report from WWF says there are still considerable discrepancies about how mining-related deforestation is occurring, and why. Most mining-related deforestation is driven by gold and coal. Other ...

The first roads that cut through rainforests are well-known conduits for deforestation. However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest ...

Last week, the European Union announced the four countries that would be considered ‘high-risk’ under the EUDR’s benchmarking system - Russia, Belarus, Myanmar, and North Korea. Key commodity ...

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