Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

Brazil has proposed a new $250 billion mechanism for conserving the world’s tropical rainforests. The “Tropical Forests Forever” fund, sourced from governments and the private sector, would ...

The Atlantic Forest is filled with “subtropical forests” in the south, “semi deciduous forests” in the interior section and “tropical evergreen forests” to the north, researchers said.

Two countries accounted for 46 percent of the primary (meaning old-growth, undisturbed) tropical rainforest loss in 2018: Brazil, which is home to more than half the Amazon, and Indonesia, where ...

Researchers have found that in tropical forests, such as this one in Brazil, a leaf’s ability to produce oxygen and convert sunlight to energy begins to collapse at around 116 degrees.

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 ...

Industrial-scale mining for materials such as coal, gold, and iron ore is spurring tropical deforestation, with once-impenetrable forest cleared for mines and access roads, new research shows.

Brazil on Friday unveiled a proposal at the COP28 climate summit to set up a global fund to finance forest conservation that it hopes can raise $250 billion from sovereign wealth funds and other ...

Brazil is gathering support from other countries for the creation of a fund that will send resources to nations with tropical forests in order to preserve them, Finance Ministry officials said at ...

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 ...

Brazil on Friday unveiled a proposal at the COP28 climate summit to set up a global fund to finance forest conservation that it hopes can raise $250 billion from sovereign wealth funds and other ...