International partnerships that provide political and financial contracts are highly needed to conserve tropical rainforests, ...

The pace of tropical forest destruction slowed in 2025 after record losses the year before but remained at worrying levels ...

By Manuela Andreoni SAO PAULO, April 29 (Reuters) - Destruction of the world's tropical forests eased in 2025 from a record ...

A new dataset and analysis released by World Resources Institute finds global tropical forest loss jumped to a record high in 2024, with 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) worldwide. In total, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Conserving the world’s tropical forests requires large-scale and predictable finance, a new op-ed by Brazilian officials argue in making their case ...

Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent research shows that clearing large areas of the rainforest exposes hundreds of ...

The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year — more than 20 million acres in 2024 alone, roughly the size of South Carolina. Over the years, ...

Tropical forests have long been treated as slow, patient allies in the fight against climate change, quietly locking away carbon over decades. A wave of new research suggests that, under the right ...