The major forest types are dry tropical forests in the Sahel, Eastern and Southern Africa, moist tropical forests in Western and Central Africa, subtropical forest and woodlands in Northern ...

A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, with global warming and El Niño ...

A landmark study led by the University of Oxford has created the world’s first global map of tropical forests based on canopy traits, shedding light on the complex functional diversity of tree ...

AccuWeather meteorologists began monitoring the area of interest last week. Since that time, chances of development remain ...

The map shows where the forests are located, and the bar charts on the right hand side show the overall distribution of different tree heights. Canopy height for moist tropical forests for intact ...

A new WRI report finds deforestation in 2024, driven by fires, has nearly doubled compared to 2023, underscoring urgent calls ...

teach scientists more about the carbon cycle and map areas of deforestation. “We need to know the health of our tropical forests,” explains Simonetta Cheli, ESA’s director of earth ...

The satellite will create a 3D map of tropical forests after 17 months, then new (non-3D) maps every 9 months for the rest of the 5-year mission, providing insights normally hidden from human sight ...

Using images collected by a NASA satellite, researchers map primary tropical forest across the globe on a 30m by 30m scale. By comparing these maps over time they can detect even small areas of ...