Africa's forest cover is estimated at 650 million hectares or 17 percent of the world's forests. The major forest types are dry tropical forests in the Sahel, Eastern and Southern Africa ...

Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for ...

By 2010 to 2019, the world’s total forest cover was shrinking by nearly 1 million acres per year, thanks in large part to “unprecedented” commercial logging, new mining projects, and ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest ...

Quegan first conceived of using a P-band radar to map the world’s forests about 20 years ... of satellites tracking woodland forest cover. NASA’s GEDI instrument on the International Space ...

The tree type map is color-coded by each specific forest cover type and public lands are excluded. This is a forest type map of Aspen-Birch. The forest cover type illustrated on this map is ...

Russia has the largest forest area in the world, with over 800 million hectares. This is about a fifth of the world's forests ...