Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

2009). Although large areas of tropical forest have been cleared during the last 20 years and extensive deforestation continues in some regions, there has been an increase in tropical secondary ...

One way of combating deforestation effectively is to define priority zones seen as being at particular risk. The difficult ...

Deforestation can also directly influence the weather. For example, removing trees in tropical regions can reduce rainfall because it changes the way water vapor forms over the forest canopy.

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting ... finance new strategies to protect the world’s largest tropical rainforest,” Ebus said. Ebus said Amazon countries ...

Understanding how different aspects of tropical forests are affected by ... in how different facets of the ecosystem responded to deforestation. We saw increases, decreases, or sometimes no ...

The UNDP report highlights the transformative impact of the Norway Pledge, which empowered 35 tropical forest jurisdictions ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet ... There are many causes of rainforest deforestation, which leads to loss of habitats, soil erosion, flooding and global warming. International agreements ...

This means the food we eat is directly causing deforestation. In tropical and subtropical countries, agriculture has accounted for 73% of deforestation. The majority of deforestation is linked to meat ...

Underwritten Produced with financial support from an organization or individual, yet not approved by the underwriter before or after publication. Between 2019 and 2021, EU-linked deforestation ...

Indonesia’s deforestation is once again rising after several years of decline, with 2024 marking the highest rate since 2021.