Massive wildfires have torn through Syria’s coastal mountain region of Jabal Turkman since Thursday, destroying thousands of ...

Tropical forest loss skyrocketed in 2024, with vast swaths of primary forest consumed by fire, according to new satellite data from the University of Maryland’s Global Land Analysis and ...

An estimated 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary forest were lost last year The destruction of the world’s tropical forests soared to a record high in 2024, with new data revealing a ...

June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical ...

Tropical primary forest loss driven by other causes also jumped by 14%, the sharpest increase since 2016. “This level of forest loss is unlike anything we’ve seen in over 20 years of data.

"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 ...

Neighboring Bolivia's forest loss — 1.5 million hectares — skyrocketed by 200% last year, with a record 3.6% of primary forests destroyed in a single year, mostly due to fires set to clear ...