The CEO of Climate Analytics, Bill Hare, spoke of this and said, “A world at 2.6°C temperature rise means global disaster.” ...

Communities living near mining operations in the southern Philippines’ Caraga region are feeling the toll of the global ...

At COP, Brazil is presenting itself as an Amazon defender. But a key measure to slow deforestation is in grave peril.

Hydropower dams aren’t sustainable—they destroy ecosystems, worsen climate change, and rely on rainfall patterns they help disrupt. Across the world, they’re drying up, failing to deliver clean energy ...

Deforestation is leading to temperature increases of up to 5°C in some tropical regions, according to data revealed in a new interactive map created by researchers at the University of Leeds.

Deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, rose by 17% last year, with wildfires, beef production and ...

Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometers away to get warmer, suggests a new study. The research suggests that tropical forests play a critical role in cooling the land ...

Tree clearance in the tropics has two main effects that drive rainfall responses. First, the amount of water that evaporates from vegetation is reduced, decreasing the amount of moisture that enters ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --A major law aimed at curbing deforestation by requiring importers in the European Union to prove their worldwide supply chains are not causing more trees to be felled has been pushed ...

The EU's new Deforestation Regulation requires companies trading in cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood, as well as products derived from these commodities, to conduct extensive ...

The Amazon Forest seen from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory, a scientific research facility in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometres ...