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.

A new alert system developed by online deforestation-tracking platform Global Forest Watch tells users what’s causing the deforestation. The new alert system deploys AI models to classify ...

Maize, rice and cassava drive more deforestation than major export-oriented crops like cocoa, coffee, and rubber. This has been shown by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in ...

A European Commission project to counter deforestation and forest degradation associated with “the making available on the Union market as well as the export” of certain agricultural products was ...