Paru State Forest in the state of Pará was Brazil’s fifth-most deforested conservation unit in October, sparking concern for the region’s giant trees — including the tallest in the Amazon. The Paru ...

Equity investors must gain a greater understanding of how companies are impacted by and addressing deforestation—and how different approaches might affect long-term return potential. Beyond its ties ...

A pair of filmmakers at the prestigious TED Conference used virtual reality to allow people to experience the ravages of deforestation -- from the perspective of a tree. Ella Dawson experiences what ...

The current price applied to a forest’s carbon-absorbing benefits is set far too low to convince those cutting down trees to stop — and, accordingly, to meet global goals to slow costly climate change ...

Illegal logging of shea and other indigenous economic trees is accelerating deforestation in Ghana’s Upper West Region, threatening livelihoods and undermining climate resilience in the northern ...

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research published Wednesday underscoring the rainforest's "pivotal" role in regulating ...

The likelihood that you use products with palm oil is pretty high: the ingredient is in half of all products on supermarket shelves, in everything from ice cream and lipstick to shampoo and laundry ...

Climate change is caused in major part by an overabundance of Carbon Dioxide. Trees are the single best way to reduce CO 2 because they breathe it in and convert it to oxygen. Without trees, the ...

High-resolution satellite imagery has been used to map every single tree in Africa, demonstrating a technique that could help improve the monitoring of deforestation across the world. Florian Reiner ...

The Brazilian government said Thursday that forest loss in its Amazon region fell more than 30 percent compared to the year earlier, the lowest amount of destruction in the last nine years. In the 12 ...