This paper studies how global warming affects deforestation and agricultural land use. Using high-resolution satellite data on global temperature, deforestation, and land cover from 2001 to 2019, we ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Women's History Month, WCS and Nature are ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon drove roughly three-quarters of the region’s dry-season rainfall decline between 1985 ...

Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent ...

Tree clearance in the tropics has two main effects that drive rainfall responses. First, the amount of water that evaporates from vegetation is reduced, decreasing the amount of moisture that enters ...

Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

It is one of the most critical global challenges because it affects natural systems, economies, and societies worldwide.

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

"These are the forces that actually create and sustain the Amazon rainforest," said Matt Finer, a senior researcher with Amazon Conservation's Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), which ...

After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world's largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new ...