By curtailing deforestation and wildlife trafficking across the globe, governments could help prevent the rise of the next worldwide pandemic.

"More warming for trees could mean more stress, more tree death, and less capacity to slow global warming..."

"The self-powered sensing system could continuously monitor the fire and environmental conditions without requiring maintenance after deployment."

Poorly planned tree-planting efforts may risk actually adding to climate change and cutting biodiversity, research on a campaign in Chile finds.

When human activity destroys wildlife habitats, it can lead to new animal-to-human transmitted diseases like COVID-19. Conservation efforts can help.

“People have been arguing about whether these long-lived pioneers contribute much to carbon storage... We were surprised to find that they do."

Forest loss ups the chance for human-primate interactions, researchers say. The contact could kickstart the spread of a global pandemic like COVID-19.

"We can't attribute single fire events to climate change. But the trends in large fire events... are consistent with expected trends in a warming climate."

Some forests, particularly in more arid regions, have become more drought tolerant, primarily thanks to the death of less hardy trees.

In the last 20 years, more than 60% of Myanmar's mangrove forests were converted to agricultural use, report researchers.