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Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 2021

Deforestation for rubber ramps up near UNESCO site in Cameroon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Jul 2018

Sumatran elephants are critically endangered and could go extinct in the wild before mid-century. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Study finds elephants plant trees, play big role in forest structure

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jul 2018

Peru: Marañón dry forests protected as a regional conservation area

Vanessa Romo 20 Jul 2018

DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

John Vidal 19 Jul 2018

Grasslands may trump forests at carbon storage in a warming world

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jul 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018

Mangroves and their deforestation may emit more methane than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jul 2018

Salamanders have ‘tricks up their sleeves’ for weathering climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Jul 2018

Global frog pandemic may become even deadlier as strains combine

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2018

City forests store rainforest-levels of carbon, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Jun 2018

After logging, activists hope to extend protections for Bialowieza Forest

Jeremy Hance 28 Jun 2018

The world lost an area of tropical forest the size of Bangladesh in 2017

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018

Logging roads drive loss of intact forest in FSC-certified logging concessions

John Cannon 27 Jun 2018

Scientists find surprising genetic differences between Brazil’s mangroves

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Jun 2018

Scientists find new snail-eating snakes, auction naming rights to save them

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 Jun 2018

As biomass energy gains traction, southern US forests feel the burn

Rachel Fritts 11 Jun 2018

Study reveals China’s new forests aren’t really forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Jun 2018

Scientists find Europe’s last primary forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Jun 2018

A view up at the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Taller, older trees fare better during Amazon droughts, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Jun 2018

How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse

Taran Volckhausen 31 May 2018

How an island of mice is changing what we know about evolution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 May 2018

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2018

Higher incomes, not higher carbon dioxide levels, drive forest gains, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2018

Deforestation leads to big hikes in local temperature, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 May 2018

New study finds mangroves may store way more carbon than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 May 2018

‘We are going to self-destruct’: Development plans threaten Malaysian island

Kate Mayberry 30 Apr 2018

‘Shocking and worrying’: Selective logging has big, lasting impact on fish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2018

US urban areas are losing 36 million trees every year, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2018

Scientists discover carbon ‘fingerprint’ in tree rings

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Apr 2018

Bornean bantengs feeling the heat in logged forests, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2018

New species of ‘exploding ant’ discovered in Borneo

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Apr 2018

Colombia grants ‘historic’ protections to rainforest, indigenous groups

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Apr 2018

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