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

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 ...

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.

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.

“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 ...

The oldest ecosystem. Just like the species within them, ecosystems grow, evolve, and die over time. Due to their resilience, rainforests have withstood ice ages and persisted for at least 300 ...

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 ...