The amount of forest lost around the world has reduced by millions of hectares each year in recent decades, but countries are still off track to meet “important” deforestation targets. These are the ...
Sometimes called the planet's "lungs," the rainforests of the Amazon play an important role in regulating Earth's carbon dioxide levels. Forests thick with trees stash away CO2, lightening the load of ...
These are the findings of the Global Forest Resources Assessment – a major new report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization – which says that an estimated 10.9 million hectares (Mha) of land ...