A new study states that the combination of global warming and extreme heat events, alongside the continued expansion of deforestation in the world, may be devastating for many species of animals, ...

Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

New research suggests that the loss of forest habitat increases contact between humans and nonhuman primates — and therefore the transmission of diseases from animals to humans, as with coronavirus ...

We are writing to you on behalf of all the animals affected by the devastating act of deforestation. Deforestation is something that has impacted multiple countries around the world since the 1960s.

Massive deforestation not only paves the way for poachers but also threatens the genetic diversity of wildlife.

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian countryside near the town of Novo Repartimento. She’s ...

The truncate-toed chorus frog is a widely distributed species in the Philippines archipelago, with four distinct subspecies. One of them, the Leyte chorus frog, first described around 80 years ago, is ...

A new study warns that climate change is making the southern Amazon's rainfall more sensitive to deforestation, lowering the threshold at which forest loss triggers lasting declines in rain. Current ...

Scientists have long known that human activity often helps pathogens spread. Human-caused climate change can push disease-carrying mosquitoes or ticks into new places as temperatures rise, and ...

New research suggests Hawaii's wetland birds were not driven to extinction by hunting alone. Discover what it means here!

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon ...