A pair of filmmakers at the prestigious TED Conference used virtual reality to allow people to experience the ravages of deforestation -- from the perspective of a tree. A presentation Thursday simply ...

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through ...

Equity investors must gain a greater understanding of how companies are impacted by and addressing deforestation—and how different approaches might affect long-term return potential. Beyond its ties ...

Amazonian forests in Bolivia. (Photo by Oriol Massana & Adrià López-Baucells) (CN) – Deforestation will continue to chip away at the Amazon rainforest, but in the next several decades climate change ...

New research finds that when climate change and deforestation impacts are taken together, up to 58 percent of Amazon tree species richness could be lost by 2050, of which 49 percent would have some ...

Last year, the world lost trees covering more than 29 million acres, an area roughly the size of the entire state of Pennsylvania. Around a third of the trees were in mature tropical rainforests, ...

In the current political moment, finding common ground seems harder and harder. It should not be. One area of special concern for all humanity, certainly for those who care about the environment, is ...

The current price applied to a forest’s carbon-absorbing benefits is set far too low to convince those cutting down trees to stop — and, accordingly, to meet global goals to slow costly climate change ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Global deforestation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Of all the ...

A pair of filmmakers at the prestigious TED Conference used virtual reality to allow people to experience the ravages of deforestation -- from the perspective of a tree. Ella Dawson experiences what ...