The planet is becoming greener, but scientists warn that forests with fast-growing trees are more fragile and less resilient.

Highly detailed 3D scans of dense tropical rain forest plots are enabling precise estimates of tree structure, volume and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rainforest cleared in Santarém, Brazil. Miguel Pinheiro / CIFOR Despite an international pledge to halt the destruction of forests ...

New 3D scans of tropical rainforests give scientists better data on forest biomass, boosting carbon tracking and satellite ...

How did Costa Rica beat back deforestation and buck the global trend?

Across the planet, forests are no longer the relatively stable backdrops they once seemed. From the Amazon to the Arctic, species are shuffling, tree mortality is spiking and fire seasons are ...

In 2024, the world lost 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary rainforest, the highest level of loss in at least two decades. That’s nearly double the destruction recorded in 2023. Fires were the ...

A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi. Teams from Rhizocore Technologies are collecting samples of fungi from around ...

Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change ...

Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestock farming and the export of agricultural products.

When you sip a cup of coffee or use a rubber band, you’re benefiting from tropical forests. These lush ecosystems provide countless products we rely on daily — from food to materials like wood and ...