There’s no single culprit responsible for deforestation: around the world, forest cover is lost because of fires, disease, logging, clear-cutting, and myriad other factors. And the environmental ...

Scientist have created the first high-resolution global map of forest extent, loss and gain, a resource that greatly improves our ability to understand human and naturally-induced forest changes ...

Global distribution of forest cover, circa-1990. Click image to enlarge. Researchers have created a global map of the world’s forests in the year 1990, enabling accurate comparisons between past ...

A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

The new hybrid forest map combines 8 different data sources with crowdsourced data. It is more accurate than existing maps both for forest location and estimation of percentage forest cover IIASA ...

The forest-height map could aid the ongoing effort to estimate the amount of carbon tied up in Earth’s forests and to explain what sops up 2 billion tonnes of “missing” carbon each year. Humans ...

Peter Potapov ¹, Aleksey Yaroshenko ², Svetlana Turubanova ², Maxim Dubinin ³, Lars Laestadius ⁴, Christoph Thies ⁵, Dmitry Aksenov ⁶, Aleksey Egorov ², Yelena Yesipova ⁶, Igor Glushkov ⁶, Mikhail ...

Fires accounted for more than a third of the world’s tree cover losses last year — the largest share on record Unprecedented wildfires raged across Russia in 2021, burning vast swaths of ...

India's Forest Cover India is at number 10 in the world in terms of forest cover with a total forest area of around 721,600 square kilometres, which equals around 24.3% of its geographic area.