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    Insights
    November 11, 2025

    Land Use Changed the Climate. Now Climate’s Changing the Land

    • land use
    • climate change
    • agriculture
    • deforestation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • COP30
    Aftermath of a forest fire in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
    • land use
    • climate change
    • agriculture
    • deforestation
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • COP30
    Forests
    Insights
    November 6, 2025

    Financing Nature Conservation: Will the Tropical Forest Forever Facility Finally Do It?

    • COP30
    • deforestation
    • forest monitoring
    • conservation
    Fisherman using nets to catch fish in a tropical forest.
    • COP30
    • deforestation
    • forest monitoring
    • conservation
    Forests
    Europe
    Technical Perspectives
    September 10, 2025

    Compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation Is Feasible, Underway — and Must Go On

    • deforestation
    • Forest Legality
    • climate policy
    • commodities
    A farmer looks over his coffee plantations with trees in the background.
    • deforestation
    • Forest Legality
    • climate policy
    • commodities
    Forests
    Insights
    August 1, 2025

    5 Graphics Explain the Climate-Fire Feedback Loop

    • fires
    • Forests
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • GHG emissions
    • extreme heat
    Forest fire fighters battling a blaze near a road.
    • fires
    • Forests
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • GHG emissions
    • extreme heat
    Forests
    Insights
    July 24, 2025

    World’s Forest Carbon Sink Shrank to its Lowest Point in at Least 2 Decades, Due to Fires and Persistent Deforestation

    • deforestation
    • mapping
    • Climate
    • carbon removal
    A fire burns in the Amazon rainforest
    • deforestation
    • mapping
    • Climate
    • carbon removal
    Forests
    Europe
    Update
    June 30, 2025

    A New Satellite Data App Supports Better Monitoring of European Forests

    • data
    • deforestation
    • fires
    • data
    • deforestation
    • fires
    Forests
    Insights
    June 24, 2025

    Protecting Naturally Regrowing Forests Is a Crucial — and Overlooked — Climate Solution

    • Forests
    • carbon removal
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • nature-based solutions
    People walking through a forest partially regrown after a fire.
    • Forests
    • carbon removal
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • nature-based solutions
    Forests
    Insights
    June 12, 2025

    New Data Shows What’s Driving Forest Loss Around the World

    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • agriculture
    • extreme weather
    • infrastructure
    • data visualization
    Bulldozers clear Malaysian rainforest to make way for agriculture.
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • agriculture
    • extreme weather
    • infrastructure
    • data visualization
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    April 10, 2025

    Tree Cover Is Still Declining Overall in Latin America, but New Data Shows Where It’s Coming Back

    • data
    • data visualization
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Cities
    • conservation
    • National Climate Action
    • Forests
    A group of people preparing tree seedlings to plant in the rainforest.
    • data
    • data visualization
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Cities
    • conservation
    • National Climate Action
    • Forests
    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    February 5, 2025

    4 Graphics Explain Los Angeles’ Rare and Devastating January Fires

    • fires
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • data visualization
    People take photos of a wildfire blazing over the L.A. hills.
    • fires
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • data visualization
    Forests
    Insights
    November 11, 2024

    How Rethinking ‘What Is a Forest’ Can Result in More Effective Conservation

    • global forest watch
    • deforestation
    • forest monitoring
    • international climate policy
    Villagers walking the edge of a forest
    • global forest watch
    • deforestation
    • forest monitoring
    • international climate policy
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    October 23, 2024

    Mining Is Increasingly Pushing into Critical Rainforests and Protected Areas

    • deforestation
    • data
    • Forests
    • data visualization
    • Energy
    Hydraulic gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon.
    • deforestation
    • data
    • Forests
    • data visualization
    • Energy
    Forests
    Insights
    September 19, 2024

    6 Graphics Explain South America’s Forest Fires

    • Forests
    • fires
    • data visualization
    Smoke in La Paz, Bolivia from nearby forest fires
    • Forests
    • fires
    • data visualization
    Forests
    Insights
    June 27, 2024

    Canada's Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfires Released Nearly 4 Times More Carbon than Global Aviation

    • Forests
    • fires
    • GHG emissions
    • climate change
    Smoke from forest fires in Sparwood, British Columbia, Canada in 2023
    • Forests
    • fires
    • GHG emissions
    • climate change
    Forests
    Insights
    April 4, 2024

    Forest Pulse: The Latest on the World’s Forests

    • global forest watch
    • data visualization
    • COP16
    forest fires palangkaraya central kalimantan indonesia.jpg
    • global forest watch
    • data visualization
    • COP16
    Forests
    Research
    April 4, 2024

    Global Forest Review

    GFR Malaysia Kalimantan border tropical forest homepage 0.jpg
    Forests
    Insights
    February 29, 2024

    Complex Supply Chains Are Still a Major Barrier to Ending Deforestation

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • data
    • agriculture
    • forest products
    • corporate sustainability
    • commodities
    Plantation worker watching as a truck unloads freshly harvested oil palm branches.
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • data
    • agriculture
    • forest products
    • corporate sustainability
    • commodities
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