Pakistan is a forest-poor country, with only five percent of the total area under forests. Most of the land falls under arid ...

Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly ...

New Global Witness analysis shows deforestation linked to UK imports is continuing to rage on amid regulatory delays ...

such as human settlements in flood plains, deforestation, and dams, can all increase vulnerability and reduce natural buffers. The analysis identified four key types of floods. The rain/pluvial ...

Silvana Amaral at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research in São Paulo and her colleagues used satellite imagery and land records to analyse deforestation trends in areas with mature ...

The research team found that, taken together, all the cutting over the study period amounted to 186,000 hectares of deforestation over 14 locations, both on private and protected lands.