Tropical forests have shown improvement in primary forest loss, with a 9 percent decline compared to 2023. Brazil and Colombia saw reductions in forest loss, attributed to conservation policies and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Primary forests in the tropics are declining at an accelerating rate according to analysis of satellite data released last week by the University ...

The world lost a record amount of forest in 2024, driven by a catastrophic rise in fires. New data from the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab, made available on World Resources Institute’s (WRI) ...

June 27 (UPI) --Tropical rainforest loss is accelerating with the world losing an area of forest the size of 11 soccer fields every minute, releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the ...

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a presidential decree that bans logging of 64 million hectares of carbon-rich primary forests and peatlands and suspends the granting of new ...

Like its ancient cathedrals, Europe has a remarkable--but poorly understood--legacy of old-growth forests. These primeval landscapes, scattered on remote hillsides and forested valleys across many ...

The planet lost an area of tree cover larger than the United Kingdom in 2020, including more than 4.2 million hectares of primary tropical forests, according to data released today by the University ...

The world lost 3.8 million hectares of tropical primary forest in 2019 – equivalent to a football pitch every six seconds – according to a new report published Tuesday. The loss of tropical primary ...

The area of tropical forest destroyed in 2021 was enough to cover the entire island of Cuba, and sent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as India does in an entire year from burning fossil fuels, ...