Deforestation harms the planet and humans in many ways. Trees play a major role in the global effort to slow the pace of climate change, preserve wildlife, and support more than eight billion people.

In the National Geographic documentary The Territory, illegal land grabbers in a section of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest burn down thousands of acres to clear space for cattle farming, buzzsaw giant ...

There’s a miracle at the center of “Lost in the Jungle”—the survival of four young children after 40 days in the Amazon rainforest of central Colombia. But there are other slightly less mind-blowing ...