Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

The report shows that the practice of clear-cutting (removing all trees from a given area) in the Brazilian Amazon led to reduced crop yields, resulting in total economic losses of around $1bn between ...

Reinerio Zepeda is 88 and for almost a century has made his living from arabica coffee, grown in the shade at his finca, or ...

A recent biodiversity meeting acknowledged the serious problem of deforestation while a new report on global environmental threats to trees offered a startling estimate. At a noisy press conference in ...

Deforestation is playing a greater role than researchers expected, according to a new study. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey If deforestation ...

The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year — more than 20 million acres in 2024 alone, roughly the size of South Carolina. That’s bad news because ...

IT problems have led The European Commission to propose another delay to the EU’s new deforestation rules coming into force. In July, Cadbury owner Mondelez International called for a further delay to ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Indonesia is defying the global trend in tropical deforestation.

Romnick Sarmenta has spoken out on the Philippines’ recurring flood problems, saying the issue stems from greed, corruption and environmental abuse. Sarmenta recently took to his X (formerly Twitter) ...