Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

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 recent biodiversity meeting acknowledged the serious problem of deforestation while a new report on global environmental threats to trees offered a startling estimate. At a noisy press conference in ...

A combination of deforestation and climate change could put most of North America’s lizard species at risk for health problems and population decline, a recent analysis found. The study, in Nature ...

Deforestation has reached alarming levels in Bolivia. One of the main drivers of tree cover loss – loss of the canopy – is the rise in slash-and-burn land clearance practices. Settlers often start the ...

One evening in September 2023, two men sawed down the Sycamore Gap tree that had grown alongside Hadrian’s Wall in England for 150 years. When I read the outpouring of grief and rage at the baffling ...

Wildfires and agricultural expansion offset big gains in protecting tropical forests last year. By Manuela Andreoni Despite major progress in protecting vast tracts of rainforest, the world failed ...

The report shows that the practice of clear-cutting (removing all trees from a given area) in the Brazilian Amazon led to reduced crop yields, resulting in total economic losses of around $1bn between ...

The giants of the Amazon are getting even bigger. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. A sweeping, new study has found the rainforest’s ...

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) covers cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy(a) and wood, as well as many derived products. The Regulation is currently scheduled to apply to operators ...

Trees first appeared around 400 million years ago. They survived the mass-extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago and lived through several glacial periods during which ...