Deforestation

A new mapping technique could help researchers prevent deforestation in the Amazon.

Light pollution in tropical rainforests disturbs seed-dispersing bats, potentially slowing regeneration of certain forests.

A new interactive map shows deforestation in near-real time. Satellite imagery updated monthly shows forest loss and (more rarely) gain.

Beneath the lush forests of the Amazon is a whole different level of diversity that new research says may be one of the keys to understanding how to stem the global impacts of deforestation.

After months of delay, an effort to move illegal loggers, miners and ranchers off the land of Brazil's most threatened indigenous tribe is finally underway.