Approximately 2.5× 106 square kilometers of the Amazon forest are currently degraded by
fire, edge effects, timber extraction, and/or extreme drought, representing 38% of all …

Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally,
with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the …

Recent fires in the Amazon have attracted much political and media attention, but it still
remains unclear what has been burning. This is crucial to understanding impacts and …

Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin,, but is
increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire,. Here we quantify these impacts over the …

Climate change increases fire-favorable weather in forests, but fire trends are also affected
by multiple other controlling factors that are difficult to untangle. We use machine learning to …

Tropical woody plants store∼ 230 petagrams of carbon (PgC) in their aboveground living
biomass. This review suggests that these stocks are currently growing in primary forests at …

Deforestation and drainage has made Indonesian peatlands susceptible to burning. Large
fires occur regularly, destroying agricultural crops and forest, emitting large amounts of CO2 …

Tropical rainforests store enormous amounts of carbon, the protection of which represents a
vital component of efforts to mitigate global climate change. Currently, tropical forest …

Forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon due to selective logging and forest fires may
greatly increase the human footprint beyond outright deforestation. We demonstrate a …

East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …