Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...
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.
One way of combating deforestation effectively is to define priority zones seen as being at particular risk. The difficult ...
As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the trees left standing, potentially changing the structure of forests, a ...
The UNDP report highlights the transformative impact of the Norway Pledge, which empowered 35 tropical forest jurisdictions ...
The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million ...
Understanding how different aspects of tropical forests are affected by logging ... in how different facets of the ecosystem responded to deforestation. We saw increases, decreases, or sometimes ...
Indonesia has the world’s third-largest expanse of tropical rainforest, after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and such a vast amount of deforestation would deal a major blow to ...
Understanding how different aspects of tropical forests are affected by logging ... in how different facets of the ecosystem responded to deforestation. We saw increases, decreases, or sometimes ...