Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large areas of forest can trigger severe and lasting reductions in rainfall ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...

Deforestation coupled with climate change is rapidly pushing the Amazon Rainforest toward a perilous tipping point that could ...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged the European Commission to revise the text of its anti-deforestation regulation, scheduled for implementation by the end of 2026, after critics condemned the ...

Too Much Heat? Deforestation Is Already Driving Deadly Temperatures ...

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22–28% of the Amazon, ...

On May 4, the European Commission released a report on the simplification of the EU Deforestation Regulation, claiming a 75% ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

The European Commission’s announcement that it would not initiate a process to further amend the text of its milestone ...

The leather industry spent most of the last year intensifying an already determined lobbying campaign in Brussels to win an ...