Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical ...

A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the ...

Deforestation remains the top culprit paired with several destructive human activities behind Amazon's devastation.

The road to hell is paved. Whenever a dirt track in Brazil’s Amazon jungle is overlaid with asphalt, it takes little time for the emerald rainforest surrounding it to disappear in a suffocating plume ...

A major logging project has been proposed on the southern border of Glacier National Park, prompting concern from conservationists that wildlife habitats near the park would be negatively impacted.

Forest fog over the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southeastern Oregon. (U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Region/Flickr via Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — In a win for conservation ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest against deforestation. Many of the trees cut down or ...

SAO PAULO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A lobby group for Brazilian grain trading and crushing firms has told farming state Mato Grosso that it and many of its members are quitting a nearly 20-year-old pact ...

In a bid to expand logging in the forests of northwestern Montana, the state and U.S Forest Service inked a new 20-year shared stewardship agreement on Monday.