A key park for the conservation of the Sumatran tiger had more than 50 percent forest loss in 20 years due to the ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and ...

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in 21st-century global land cover change, with far-reaching implications for ecosystem ...

Primary forests, or old-growth forests as they are sometimes called, are epicenters of rich biodiversity, are more resilient ...

Point cloud of trees growing deep in the forest (above) and in fragmented forests in Central Amazonia, obtained using highresolution terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). The green area represents the ...

Pennsylvania leads the nation in Lyme disease cases, and the continued development of forested areas increases people’s risk of being bitten by the species of tick that transmits the illness. When ...

Université de Montréal provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Université de Montréal provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. In my home country of Madagascar, ...

A new fossil study indicates that Southeast Asia’s forests were more resilient to past climate change than previously thought. In contrast to the theory that a vast savanna corridor expanded across ...

1. Forest ecosystems have been subjected to intensive exploitation, and on top of these land use-driven habitat alterations, there is an ongoing and rapid climate change. Understanding why ...