A coalition of Western North Carolina conservation organizations sued the U.S. Forest Service as the Trump administration has ...
Pellet-making is contributing to deforestation and biodiversity loss in North America, and will increasingly do so in tropical nations, including Vietnam, Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Landmark study maps tropical forests' canopy traits, revealing functional diversity and ecological strategies across the globe.
The first roads that cut through rainforests are well-known conduits for deforestation. However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest ...
The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242 ...
Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...
To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since ...
Tropical forests are a crucial part of helping our planet maintain balance, but they are adapting too slowly to keep pace ...
One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...