The COP28 climate conference will highlight the role of forests as major carbon ‘sinks,’ with a study revealing their potential to absorb up to 226…
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Between 2001-2020, deforestation equivalent to clearing forests in France, Germany, and Spain occurred. This has profound impacts on climate change and biodiversity. Technological advancements aid…
An area prepared for planting in a degraded forest adjacent to the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Planting locations are marked with sticks. Credit: Lindsay…
The bright orange flowers of the Ecuadorian cloud forest herb Gasteranthus extinctus, long believed to have gone extinct, light up the forest understory as if…
An aerial view of the Brazilian Amazon. Credit: Neil Palmer / CIAT Deforestation in the tropics is an even more important factor in the climate…
Graphic showing total forest loss in India during the period 2001-2018/ Credit: University of Reading Forest loss from temperature and rainfall alterations adding to deforestation…
A late afternoon storm over a forest, Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast. Credit: Cornelia Klein Study shows storm frequency has doubled in the region in 30 years,…
Newly planted oil palm trees on a plantation in northern Colombia. Credit: Paul Furumo Knowing the steps is not the same thing as knowing how…
Brazilian Amazonia, in the Riozinho da Liberdade Extractive Reserve, in the state of Acre. Credit: André Nunes Consuming sustainably sourced wild meat instead of domesticated…
Amazonian regions that have undergone the most extensive deforestation and have the greatest potential for large-scale forest recovery currently have the lowest levels of recovery.…
A rainforest in Malaysia. Credit: Wikimedia Common A new index shows that the world’s rainforests are responding differently to threats like a warming climate and…
Amazon deforestation. Credit: Oregon State University A survey of more than 18,000 land parcels spanning 2 million square miles across 63 countries shows that a…
This composite image was created by combing three separate ‘Normalized Difference Vegetation Index’ images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The first image, from April 8,…