There’s no other way to put it: Cutting down tropical forests is disastrous. The lush plant life in these areas sequesters huge amounts of carbon, pulling it out of the atmosphere to fuel plant ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Continually logging and re-growing tropical forests to supply timber is reducing the levels of vital nutrients in the soil, which may limit future forest growth and recovery, a new study suggests.

Humid tropical forests, vital in global efforts to limit rising temperatures, are under threat as a result of changes in land use and climate. Now, researchers have developed a new way to keep ...

Humid tropical forests, ... The researchers also uncovered strong interactions between climate, land use, and biodiversity that define the vulnerability and resilience of forests.

A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather patterns in the world's three largest remaining tropical rainforests. The study, published in the journal Nature last month, found ...

In a study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the ...

From the Amazon to the Philippines, world’s tropical forests are vanishing at a much faster rate than previously reported, says a new study that analyzed satellite images of 80 percent of the ...

SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Tropical forest loss declined last year, but other indicators show that the world's woodlands remain under tremendous pressure, according to an analysis, opens new ...

Why deforestation means less rain in tropical forests. By Lauren Sommer (NPR) April 2, 2023 9:21 p.m. View of a deforested and burned area of the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil on Sept. 2, 2022.