While Panama still faces tremendous conservation challenges, it's well on its way to meeting these challenges head-on, and ...

Once ecosystems collapse, others replace them. Within 50 years of reaching a tipping point, the study shows the Amazon rainforest could become a savannah-type ecosystem made up of trees and grasses.

Since 1980, forest area has decreased by about 10% in developing countries. In tropical regions, deforestation is currently estimated to exceed 130,000 square kilometers per year.

Most trees in the Amazon (90%), the Atlantic Forest (90%), or the Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna-like biome (60%), depend on ...

A healthy forest ecosystem periodically sustains high morality contributing to the dead trees for future decades. Photo George Wuerthner. Native bees increase in recent high severity burns.