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Climate change is making forest fires worse, and vice-versa — creating a vicious “climate-fire feedback loop.”

With emissions from deforestation and other disturbances like fires rising, the world’s forests risk shifting from a carbon sink to a carbon source.

The latest data on forest fires confirms: Fires are becoming more widespread, burning nearly twice as much tree cover today as 20 years ago.

New data provides a more detailed picture than ever before on the local, regional and global causes of tree cover loss.

The tropics lost a record-shattering amount of primary rainforest in 2024 driven largely by fires, according to new data from UMD and GFW.

Data on Global Forest Watch shows just how uncommon L.A.’s current fires are, and how fire trends are changing as the planet warms.