A study published in Nature reveals that small areas of deforestation, often less than 5 acres (about 2 hectares), in humid tropical forests are responsible for more than half of carbon losses ...

An analysis led by the University of Leicester shows that the African continent lost around 106 billion kilograms of forest biomass each year between 2010 and 2017. New research suggests that Africa’s ...

Researchers have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world's tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations found that just 2.2% of tree species ...

The author should be contacted directly for interview requests. WASHINGTON — A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in west and central Africa’s wet, tropical forests.

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. A Nature study reveals surprising similarities among the most common tree species in tropical rainforests in Africa, the Amazon and Southeast Asia, ...

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A ...

Did you know that forests cover almost one-third of all land on Earth? These large green areas are the lungs of our planet, ...