And the high-integrity forest habitat left for species that are already threatened or in decline is even more alarming: only 8%. According to Earth.org, some 3.2 million hectares (over 7.9 million ...

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Andrew Hector received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to carry out this research. Charlie Marsh received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems.

Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure. Science , 2025; 387 (6730): 171 DOI: 10.1126/science.adf9856 Cite This Page : ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $352 million in "quick release" funding that will go toward repairing ...

Peatlands are critical ecosystems for carbon storage and biodiversity, containing more carbon than all the world's forests despite covering just 3% of the ...

As a part of ongoing infrastructure repair efforts in Western North Carolina after Tropical ... Sept. 27, the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced it will provide over $352 million ...

For example, removing trees in tropical regions can reduce rainfall because it changes the way water vapor forms over the forest canopy. Healthy forests help minimize extreme weather by regulating ...

Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four ...

Tree temperatures in tropical forests show distinct responses to external changes at leaf and crown levels, with crown temperatures being less sensitive due to canopy structure modulation ...

Scheduled for mid-June, that event aims to bring together countries from the Congo, Amazon and Borneo-Mekong tropical forest basins in an effort to combat deforestation, as called for by countries ...