Tropical deforestation hit a new high in 2024, fueled by Amazon wildfires and expanding agriculture. Scientists warn the ...

Loss of pristine rainforests alone reached 6.7 million hectares (16.5 million acres) in 2024, nearly twice as much as in 2023 ...

Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for ...

Tree planting plans could devastate livestock farming in rural Scotland. Are we sacrificing too much for global climate goals?

The island of New Guinea is famed for its eye-popping diversity of plants, animals and human cultures. Estimated to host ...

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

Brazil, which holds the largest share of the world’s tropical forests, lost 2.8 million hectares, the most of any country. It ...

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...

The analysis focused on the tropics because that’s where most deforestation, or deliberate forest clearing, occurs. Tropical ...

Tropical rainforests are vanishing at an alarming rate, with fires and climate change driving the destruction of thousands of ...

Brazil and Bolivia led forest loss in 2024 as drought worsened fires and land was cleared for large-scale agriculture and ...