A study shows that forests in 15 tropical countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities are associated with improved outcomes for carbon storage, ...

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...

A pioneering global study has found deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human and environmental change, such as fire and logging, are fast outstripping current rates of forest regrowth. A ...

This three-part Mongabay mini-series examines grassroots forest restoration projects carried out within isolated island ecosystems — whether those islands are surrounded by water as on the Big Island ...

It's the only one of its kind in the continental United States.

Alarming new data by the Global Forest Watch shows record-breaking tropical forest loss in 2024. It's time to speed up action to safeguard our forests. The latest Global Forest Watch data tells a grim ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Losses of the world's tropical forests stayed high in 2021, despite shrinking from 2020 as wet weather limited fires, analysts said Thursday, ...

The area of tropical forest destroyed in 2021 was enough to cover the entire island of Cuba, and sent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as India does in an entire year from burning fossil fuels, ...

Despite a glut of commitments in recent years, finance for conserving the world’s forests for people and nature remains woefully inadequate. An estimated US$460 billion a year will be needed to ...