In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

Wildfires, deforestation and global warming could permanently destroy the water cycle that sustains parts of the Amazon rainforest if action is not taken in the coming decades, according to a ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra ...

There are quite a few things that pose a threat to the ecosystem, and deforestation might be one of the worst offenders. Here ...

Deforestation of tropical rainforests is causing droughts The world's tropical rainforests are still getting hit hard by ... which breaks the cycle. SMITH: When we're removing trees, ...

Deforestation—the clearing of forested land with the intention of converting it into non-forest uses—is a global problem with far-reaching consequences, some of which may not be fully ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 66.11% in August to its lowest level for the month since 2018, Environment Minister Marina Silva said on Tuesday, in a significant mark for its environmental ...

A new study finds deforestation reduces rainfall in tropical rainforests, ... When trees are cut down, it breaks this cycle, hampering the formation of rain and leading to drought.

In 2021, almost every head of state in the world committed to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 in the Glasgow Declaration on Forests. And the United Nations clearly stated that any credible ...

At his inauguration on Jan. 1 as Brazil’s new president, Inácio Lula da Silva reiterated a promise to reach zero deforestation and to recover degraded land. He’d already made the same ...

The floods devastating southern Brazil have been exacerbated by deforestation, much of it driven by soybean farming, according to experts, who urge the country to restore its forests and their ...

Deforestation is resulting in reduced rainfall across large parts of the tropics, according to new research. People living in tropical forest communities have often complained that the climate ...