The Trump administration has been accused of pursuing a "corporate giveaway" for the president's "billionaire buddies." ...

Discover the importance of rainforests, Earth's life-support system, and how you can help protect them for a sustainable ...

World Rainforest Day is observed every year on June 22 to raise awareness about the importance of rainforests and the urgent need to protect them. These lush green ecosystems play a vital role in ...

U.S. consumers may unwittingly be fueling illegal logging in Papua New Guinea’s tropical forests simply by shopping at furniture stores and home improvement retailers like The Home Depot. A two ...

JUSTYNA GUDZOWSKA is Executive Director of The Sentry. Previously, she worked on sanctions and countering the financing of terrorism at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the Obama ...

Lianas are spreading in tropical forests, harming trees and cutting carbon storage. They thrive on rising CO2 and show up in ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest. Developed by the University of Sheffield, the technology uses satellite ...

World’s second biggest rainforest will soon reopen to large-scale logging. The lifting of the 20-year logging moratorium in part of the Congo is fueling disputes over how the forest can be kept ...

The study ‘Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function whereas logging changes structure’ has been published in Science. Education Environment ...

Human uses such as oil palm plantations, logging and mining are still degrading or destroying tropical rainforests. Rich Carey/Shutterstock High quality rainforest is getting harder to find ...

More information: Pillay, Rajeev, Global rarity of high-integrity tropical rainforests for threatened and declining terrestrial vertebrates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024 ...

The Pacific Coast rainforest as a whole stores more carbon per unit area than any other forest in the world. Drawing on research and interviews with more than a hundred scientists and other ...