In real terms, forest degradation reduced carbon storage in the study area five times more than deforestation, a finding not currently reflected in Brazil’s carbon emissions accounting.

A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

New satellite maps show forest loss and degradation New satellite maps show forest loss and degradation Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com March 22, 2006 Greenpeace today launched a set of satellite ...

Forest degradation — due to human and environmental causes — was responsible for more carbon loss than deforestation between 2010 and 2019, researchers reported at the most recent American ...

Although forest loss was 9% lower compared to 2022, that’s still an area nearly the size of Switzerland — the equivalent of losing almost 10 football fields of tropical primary forest per minute.

India's forest cover rises, but degradation casts a shadow, report reveals significant forest loss and canopy degradation, threatening biodiversity and climate resilience.

It highlights examples of forest degradation in Canada and exposes the federal government’s failure to track industrial logging’s cumulative impacts, especially on remaining primary and old-growth ...

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