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 than four times the emissions from all commercial air travel in 2023 ...

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

Global forest loss surged to record levels in 2024, with wildfires destroying 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary forest ...

Brazil, set to host the COP30 climate conference later this year, lost the largest area of tropical forest in 2024.

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

Satellite intelligence is crucial, as many forest fires in remote regions escape timely detection, often leading to severe ...

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.

Several landmines exploded due to a forest fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district today, official sources ...

Trump’s budget would centralize firefighting efforts, now split among five agencies, into a single Federal Wildland Fire Service under the U.S. Interior Department.

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%.