New satellite maps show forest loss and degradation. Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com. March 22, 2006. Greenpeace today launched a set of satellite maps showing the world’s remaining extent of ...

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

Forest degradation due to environmental causes (such as drought) and human causes (such as fragmentation) released three times as much carbon as deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 2010 ...

Forest degradation — access roads, selective logging, fires, natural disturbances — is having a far greater impact on reducing carbon storage in the southern Brazilian Amazon than ...

The study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, analyzed 1,207 tree species across 271 forest plots in six Brazilian regions, ranging from the Amazon Rainforest to the Atlantic Forest, all ...

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A shift from plantation-focused efforts to natural regeneration offers a promising solution to fight menace of forest degradation and reversing climate change As a ‘nature-based solution ...

Now couple it with the unsettling level of forest degradation—measured at a staggering 92,989 sq km in just the decade between 2011 and 2021.