While Panama still faces tremendous conservation challenges, it's well on its way to meeting these challenges head-on, and ...

Since 1980, forest area has decreased by about 10% in developing countries. In tropical regions, deforestation is currently estimated to exceed 130,000 square kilometers per year.

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, covering an area roughly the size of Australia. And yet it and other large ecosystems could be gone within our lifetime. In a new paper ...

“A major question is whether a large-scale collapse of the Amazon forest system could actually happen within the twenty-first century.” (Source: Bernardo M. Flores, et al, Critical Transitions ...

Forest logging degrades rather than restores healthy forest ecosystems. The first problem there is no scientific agreement on the past fire history of the Malheur Forests.

Into the wild Kipahulu Valley Rainforest In 1967, scientific expedition cast light on pristine ecosystem, assessed flora and fauna Local News. Apr 16, 2017 ...

Unveiled in the journal Science Advances, the site—known as McGraths Flat—is one of only a few places in the world that preserves rainforest ecosystems dating back to the Miocene epoch, a time ...

Drier types of Australian forest, which have some fire tolerance, could be taking a beating too in the wake of blazes that, as researchers report January 8 in Global Change Biology, are becoming ...