James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to ...

The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge, according to a new report on near-term ...

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The research team found that, taken together, all the cutting over the study period amounted to 186,000 hectares of deforestation over 14 locations, both on private and protected lands.

Observed reductions in rainfall due to tropical deforestation Qin et al. take on the challenge of quantifying how Amazon rainfall has responded to deforestation, using a combination of satellite ...

In the Cerrado, an expanding agricultural frontier and the world’s most biodiverse tropical savanna that covers a quarter of Brazil, the figure for unauthorized clearing was 51%. Brazilian law allows ...

At the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, scientist Jacobo Arango studies ... rainforests they have to be ...

At the International Center for Tropical Agriculture ... have to be accompanied by government regulations that penalize deforestation, as well as enforcement, Arango says. "Deforestation is ...