The world last year lost about 37,000 square kilometers (14,000 square miles) of tropical primary forest, an area nearly as big as Switzerland and larger than the U.S. state of Maryland.

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.

DRC In the Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest expanse of tropical rainforest, the DRC also saw an increase in primary forest loss — a record-high rate of 526,100 hectares (1.3 million acres).

A new report from World Weather Attribution (WWA) estimates that climate change increased the likelihood of the 2023 Amazon drought by a factor of 30. Both El Niño and climate change contributed ...

ANTANANARIVO, December 4, 2023 — Madagascar received $8.8 million for carbon credits from reducing 1.76 million tons of carbon emissions in 2020, becoming the third country in Africa (after Mozambique ...