Tropical forests have shown improvement in primary forest loss, with a 9 percent decline compared to 2023. Brazil and Colombia saw reductions in forest loss, attributed to conservation policies ...

The loss of the world’s tropical primary forests increased 10 per cent year-on-year in 2022, with tree cover equivalent to the size of Switzerland destroyed globally, according to new research.

Wildfires and agricultural expansion offset big gains in protecting tropical forests last year. By Manuela Andreoni Despite major progress in protecting vast tracts of rainforest, the world failed ...

Tropical forests adjust strategies to thrive even when soils are nutrient poor. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 06 / 240606152148.htm ...

By Henry Fountain Tropical forests around the world were destroyed at an increasing rate in 2020 compared with the year before, despite the global economic downturn caused by the pandemic ...

But with a growing global food crisis, rising destruction of tropical forests and the impacts of global warming, the need to control the damage caused by the world’s most pervasive form of ...

The world's tropical forests, which provide a crucial buffer against climate change, disappeared faster than ever recorded last year, new satellite analysis suggests. Researchers estimate that ...

Brazil accounted for more than 40 per cent of global primary forest loss in the tropics last year, roughly the same as the previous year. The country topped the global list for lost tropical ...

Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and collaborating institutions actually spent 17 years moving litter around a forest in Panama to understand how it works.

“If we continue like that, in two, three, four years there will be no more forests.” Worldwide, the pace of deforestation is alarming. In 2017, 40 football fields of tropical forests were lost ...

Together, the four forest-rich nations accounted for roughly 80% of tropical deforestation caused by large-scale mining operations from 2000 to 2019, according to the study published on Monday in ...