Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

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New Predictive Analytics Capabilities Will Provide Forest Rangers With Up to Five Days Advance Warning of Illegal Logging to Help Protect Trees and Animals SANTA CLARA and SAN FRANCISCO Calif., Dec.

Alex Helan is a soldier in a new kind of war. Slurping pork and noodles in a Chinese café in the Sarawak city of Kuching, the lean 26-year-old Englishman wearing shorts and flip-flops could pass as ...

Fascinating footage shows members of one of the most isolated Indigenous tribes in the world leaving the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon, mere miles from where logging companies were recently ...

Protecting the world's threatened rainforests is key to slowing climate change. Trees trap large amounts of carbon dioxide and evaporate water, creating thick cloud cover that reflects sunlight and ...

Logging is having an unexpected impact on endangered sea turtles in Central Africa, reports a new study published in Oryx. Aerial surveys in Gabon reveal that logs lost during transport are clogging ...

JUNEAU, Alaska― A federal judge today rejected the Trump administration’s enormous commercial timber harvest and road-building plan for Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest of ...

Jim Green wanted his prospective business partners to know he wasn’t all that concerned with where they cut down the tropical hardwood that would eventually become veneer siding on homes across the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska― A federal judge today rejected the Trump administration’s enormous commercial timber harvest and road-building plan for Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest of ...