Forests are losing their carbon-absorbing power. Waiting to act will double forest-related climate costs and damage.

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion metric tons of CO2 annually—about a fifth of all human emissions—but their ...

The Amazon and its neighbours – the Orinoco and the Andean rainforest – account for 73.5 per cent of tropical forests still intact, according to Krogh. The new report “reinforces that Brazil ...

Right now, our climate strategies bet on forests not only remaining intact, but even expanding,” Windisch says. “However, ...

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

The Amazon and Southern California are experiencing ... The oil industry is a major driver of deforestation, opening up intact forests and felling trees critical for climate change mitigation ...

Swathes of the Amazon rainforest burns in Brazil ... Indigenous peoples are the custodians of 36 percent of the world’s large, intact forests; providing these communities with smartphones ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion tonnes of ... and continued deforestation in the Amazon, that’s a gamble. Climate change itself puts forests’ immense carbon stores at risk.” ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion tons of CO2 annually -- about a fifth of all human emissions -- but their carbon storage is increasingly at risk from climate change and human ...