Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future ...

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

A new study in Panama found that entrusting forests to Indigenous inhabitants may be a more effective conservation strategy than creating protected refuges.

The brief reveals how some forests are now “super‑emitters.” This term refers to landscapes that release massive amounts of ...

U.N. climate conference descends on the small Brazilian rainforest city of Belém in November 2025, it will be tempting to ...

KORAPUT, India (AP) — At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming ...

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 ...

A satellite conceived at the University of Sheffield and developed by British academics and engineers is set to become the first in the world to measure the ... will be able to penetrate cloud cover ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources targets to increase the country’s forest cover by an additional ... a system to map the country’s natural resources.