Deforestation in the world's tropical rainforests has claimed over half a million human lives due to heat-related illnesses in the past 20 years, a new study reveals. Researchers found that as ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

Bat researchers in Australia noticed that when a bat habitat is degraded through deforestation and food is less available, the hungry bats search for food in areas where humans and farm animals live.

Anthropological perspectives on the causes, consequences, and solutions of deforestation / Leslie E. Sponsel, Robert C. Bailey, and Thomas N. Headland -- Role of deforestation in the collapse of the ...

A new report highlights land rights violations, deforestation and pollution associated with a massive nickel mining and processing project on the Indonesian island of Halmahera. Community members ...

Sociologist Thomas Rudel explores the social and political forces behind global reforestation, arguing that forest regrowth is rarely automatic and often depends on human decisions and local ...

An activist group and researchers tried to increase pressure on agribusiness giant Cargill on Wednesday to do more to fight deforestation and human rights abuse, releasing a report that accuses the ...

Several EU member states are gathering in Madrid this week for the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership (ADP) summit, an alliance of European countries committed to eliminating deforestation in ...

Last week, the global climate summit got underway in the city of Belém, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, with the creation of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). This investment fund ...

A wave of efforts to increase transparency and ethics in complex global supply chains in recent years has not only unearthed grave ongoing issues, but a groundswell of private sector commitments to ...

Juliana Hoyos, a biologist and disease ecologist in training and a graduate research assistant at the Odum school of Ecology, University of Georgia, USA. Colombian disease ecologist Juliana Hoyos is ...