Rotating corn with soybean for a year or more tempers the effect, the researchers found.

Palm plantations are associated with deforestation and ecological harm, but researchers are pointing to ways things can be done differently in Africa.

The gene is central to a mechanism that controls how receptive plants are to working with mycorrhizal fungi.

After Australia, Siberia is burning, indicating that the frequency of such events is on the rise, with myriad dire consequences.

The public sector can access new satellite images of the UK to help issues such as town planning and flood mapping.

The cultivation of coffee, cocoa and vanilla secures the income of many small-holder farmers and is also a driver of land-use change in many tropical countries. 

New model answers longstanding question of how these sudden flows happen; may expand understanding of Antarctic ice sheets.

Surface methane emissions increased and at greater depths in response to increasing temperatures.

Study by Johns Hopkins economist Paul Ferraro finds that Indonesian anti-poverty programs also led to less deforestation.

Ariel BenYishay contributed his expertise in geospatial impact evaluation to a land titling paper that was recently published in the journal Nature Sustainability.