Satellite records reveal three decades of forest growth in southern China, showing how planting, harvesting, and age influence canopy height.

Environmentalists warn guidelines may enable commercial monoculture on forest land while government says partnerships will ...

Prabowo asked Forest Area Enforcement Task Force to take over 5 million hectares forest land in 2026. Last year's enforcement ...

In a eucalyptus plantation in Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) in southern India, abandoned for nearly 40 years and allowed to regenerate, researchers found that the number of tree species ...

Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests ...

It’s well-known that forest clear-cuts adversely affect stream flows in multiple ways, such as by increasing surface temperatures, damaging water absorbing organisms and causing faster runoffs. Not so ...

India’s environment ministry exempts private plantations on forest land from conservation levies, sparking fears of biodiversity loss, corporate enclosure, and erosion of forest rights. Read more.

Forests are central to climate mitigation, yet tracking how fast they grow over decades remains difficult. A new satellite-based approach reconstructs ...

Forest plantations are a controversial source of wood for the forest and paper industries. Whilst plantations can yield benefits for the local economy, environment and local communities, in some ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The ...

Andrew Hector received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to carry out this research. Charlie Marsh received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to ...

JAKARTA — Indonesia has reclaimed more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres, about the size of Switzerland) of land ...