Tropical forest loss skyrocketed in 2024, with vast swaths of primary forest consumed by fire, according to new satellite data from the University of Maryland’s Global Land Analysis and Discovery ...

Wildfires drive record forest loss in 2024, alarming data reveals - Fires emitted 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases, more ...

Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for ...

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

With wildfires reaching new and disastrous heights, we need an end to global pledges – and more opportunities for people to ...

adding that fire, which was never among the leading causes of forest loss, is now a top priority for the government. Bolivia overtook the Democratic Republic of Congo as the second country with ...

The loss of tropical primary forests reached 6.7 million hectares in the year — nearly twice as much as in 2023 and an area nearly the size of Panama. Fires caused by dry conditions, in turn ...

Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed ...

The Coconino National Forest will implement Stage 1 fire restrictions beginning May ... at odds with UA over changes to Native program, loss of director Every year, 9 out of 10 wildland fires ...

For the first time, fire, not agriculture, was the primary driver of primary tropical forest loss, with Latin America badly hit. Non-fire related tropical forest loss also increased, by 14%.