Called the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), the fund would start with US$125 billion and simple rules, aimed at ...

Tropical forests in Brazil have begun to release more carbon than they absorb as the warming climate kills more of the trees, researchers said.. The forests play an important role in the climate ...

Tropical forests have shown improvement in primary forest loss, with a 9 percent decline compared to 2023. Brazil and Colombia saw reductions in forest loss, attributed to conservation policies ...

By Lisandra Paraguassu RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -China has signaled to the Brazilian government that it will invest in the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, a multilateral mechanism funding ...

Brazil plans to propose a "huge" fund to pay for the conservation of tropical forests at the United Nations COP28 climate change summit that begins later this month in Dubai, the country's top ...

A new study, published in Science Advances on Friday, aimed to see how South American forests’ carbon intake has changed in recent years.To do so, the authors analyzed greenhouse gas monitoring ...

Smoke billows from Amazon rainforest reserve in Pará state, Brazil, in August 2020. Brazil saw the most forest loss in 2020, largely because of wildfires and the clearing of land for agriculture.

Changes that have occurred in Brazil tropical rainforest for more than 100,000 years were studied by a team of researchers. They combined data from botany, palynology and genetics.

Such challenges, and the opportunities to address them, are exemplified in Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes. These two tropical forests are of global significance: they sequester and store ...

Together, the four forest-rich nations accounted for roughly 80% of tropical deforestation caused by large-scale mining operations from 2000 to 2019, according to the study published on Monday in ...

The tropical rainforest in northern Mato Grosso, Brazil. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images The pro-clearing policies are have "probably given people a few more matches in the tool kit," Lowman said.