Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

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

The amount of rainfall in the southern Amazon basin has declined by 8 to 11 per cent since 1980, largely due to the impact of ...

The study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, found that deforestation and unplanned land use act as a "silent amplifier" of heat, worsening heatwaves beyond greenhouse-gas effects, the ...

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

Deforestation remains one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. From accelerating climate change to threatening biodiversity and disrupting local communities, the loss of forests ...

Study links renewable energy mineral mining to rising global deforestation risks worldwide. Unrecorded mining sites significantly increase forest loss and carbon emissions estimates globally. Experts ...

The UN has warned that terms like "water crisis" no longer cut it, and that we are now in a post-crisis era.

As forests around the globe vanish at alarming rates, the EU is promoting tough new rules to curb deforestation and products linked to it. But political pressure is mounting at home to water them down ...

New analysis suggests the planet may be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than many models assume, meaning temperatures could rise faster and bring ...