Lightning-laced micro-storms may fell more rainforest giants than dryness or heat, forcing a rethink of forest-management ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its ...

The European Space Agency’s satellite will measure trunks, branches and stems in forests to shed light on how much carbon is ...

At ESA's Living Planet Symposium, scientists have unveiled how the combination of different long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA's Climate Change Initiative is shedding new light on ...

The Rainforest Alliance has released its latest 2024 Annual progress report, charting its ongoing certification work in ...

Rainforests are among the most critical ecosystems on Earth. Home to roughly half of all terrestrial species, they provide ...

Illegal cattle ranches clearing the Amazon rainforest are behind the leather in high-end handbags made by top European and ...

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires in the Amazon rainforest since 2005. And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires ...

Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Brazil and Colombia did the most to curb deforestation, coinciding with their respective pro-environment presidents, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, and Gustavo Petro, taking office.