SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Tropical forest loss declined last year, but other indicators show that the world's woodlands remain under tremendous pressure, according to an analysis, opens new ...

This study is really the first to establish the limits of these tropical forest canopies, Goldsmith said. MORE: How climate change could hinder reforestation efforts, according to experts.

As in previous years, the largest tropical forest losses occurred in Brazil and Congo. Brazil alone contributed 43 percent of the world’s tropical forest loss — 4.4 million acres — in 2022.

Science is still divided on the mechanisms behind forest bathing itself. Some lend credence to the “biophilia” theory, popularized by Edward O. Wilson in the 1980s, which suggests that humans ...

The amount of tropical forest lost in 2024 was double that in 2023 and the highest in at least two decades as climate change made rainforests susceptible to uncontrollable fires. A record 67,000 ...

GEDI—pronounced "Jedi"—"can tell us the vertical structure of the forest canopy" such as leaf density, said Liu. "Our study demonstrates that climate, topography, and soil properties account ...

"Now we have this new amplification effect, which is a real feedback loop from climate change, where forest fires occur more intensively and severely than before," said Rod Taylor of Global Forest ...

New data from Global Forest Watch (GFW), a non-profit that uses satellites to monitor deforestation, finds that 4.1 million hectares of tropical primary forest was lost in 2022.The climate cost of ...

In this article, we will be looking at the 18 countries with the largest tropical forest areas in the world. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, you can go directly to 5 Countries with the ...

The Largest Tropical Rainforest . The largest unbroken stretch of rainforest is found in the Amazon river basin of South America. Over half of this forest lies in Brazil, which holds about one ...