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 ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have studied the effects of forest logging and climate change on bird communities in tropical mountains, by examining over 10 years of data. In a ...

In parts of the tropics like the island of Borneo, the pace of environmental change has been dramatic. Not long ago, the forests that covered most of the island were largely intact. But in recent ...

In the past 30 years, floods have affected more than 2.8 billion people worldwide and caused over 500,000 deaths. In Canada, ...

EUGENE, Ore. — Environmental advocates said in court this week that a federal timber project near the Oregon Coast unlawfully doesn’t account for harms to endangered marbled murrelets on forestland ...

A federal judge has rejected an environmental lawsuit that alleged an Oregon forest project unlawfully ignored the “edge effects” of logging on endangered marbled murrelets. U.S. District Court Judge ...