Growing timber exports and rising interest in biofuels are raising concerns that deforestation could accelerate in the South American country of Guyana. Guyana is a small, lightly populated country on ...

Every year the world loses an estimated 25 million acres (10 million hectares) of forest, an area larger than the state of Indiana. Nearly all of it is in the tropics. Tropical forests store enormous ...

HANOVER, N.H. - New research by a Dartmouth scientist and her colleagues shows that policies aimed at protecting tropical forests in the Congo Basin may unexpectedly lead to increased deforestation ...

This is part of a series of articles on market transformation in the pulp and paper and palm oil sectors in Indonesia. Small-holder clearing for oil palm Indonesia’s Riau Province on the island of ...

Canadian photographer TJ Watt has spent years using his photography to protect old-growth forests, including taking before-and-after photos to show exactly what is being lost to logging, PetaPixel ...

A Sustainable Forest Management Plan (SFMP) is essential for companies logging in the Amazon to promote the appropriate use of forest resources. However, some plans can be used to hide environmental ...

The planet lost more than 1 billion acres of forest between 1960 and 2019, according to a new study published this week in the journal Environmental Research Letters. This deforestation happened ...

Replacing forests with snow-covered meadows may provide greater climatic and economic benefits than if trees are left standing in some regions, according to a Dartmouth College study that for the ...

Quito, Ecuador, January 2009—TRAFFIC joined forces with CORAPE, co-ordinators of community radio shows in Ecuador, to raise the issues of deforestation and illegal logging in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Policies aimed at protecting tropical forests in the Congo Basin may unexpectedly lead to increased deforestation and timber production, a new report suggests. New research by a Dartmouth scientist ...