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 ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest ...

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 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 ...

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

uses different types of satellite images combined with artificial intelligence and ecological expertise to create detailed maps with insights about tropical forests. The data is used to monitor ...

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 ...

New worldwide maps of temperatures inside tropical forests show that global warming affect different way in different parts of the forests. Undergrowth level temperature of the tropical forests can be ...