The new Global Forest Goals Report 2026, launching this month, will reveal just how much ground we've lost and what it will take to turn the tide before 2030. We spoke with UN DESA’s expert Shyam ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...

NASA satellite radar detects forest clearing up to 100 days earlier than optical methods, improving the environmental ...

In a groundbreaking study that explores the ecological consequences of forest fragmentation, researchers are examining the degradation of edge forests and the associated carbon loss. The study, titled ...

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works inside the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, one of the ...

Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012. Despite this, experts warn that forest degradation, driven by wildfires, logging, and drought, continues to outpace ...

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global ...

Ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Belém last month, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva urged world leaders to agree to roadmaps away from fossil fuels and deforestation and pledge the ...

Uganda Wildlife Authority has officially taken over the protection and management of Bugoma Central Forest Reserve following ...

A pioneering global study has found deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human and environmental change, such as fire and logging, are fast outstripping current rates of forest regrowth. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. As the world celebrates International Day of Forests on March ...