The degradation of trees at the edges of tropical forests is more widespread than previously thought, according to new research.
The study, published in Nature, explains that trees near deforested or degraded areas of the forest are more vulnerable to drought, as well as to human activity such as logging. These “edge effects” are measurable up to 1.5km into the forest, the authors find.
This is an “amazing result”, a study author tells Carbon Brief, because previous studies detected these effects only within the first 120 metres of the forest edge. The new figure indicates that 18% of the remaining tropical moist forests are impacted by edge effects – an area more than 200% larger than previously estimated.
Experts not involved in the study tell Carbon Brief that quantifying tropical forest degradation is “frustratingly elusive”. And while some praise the methods used in the paper, others advise caution when interpreting the conclusions.
Two Brazilian scientists also tell Carbon Brief that the study overlooks important work from institutions in the global south who are also working on this problem. They advise that scientists from local groups should be invited to contribute to research in this area.
Forest height
Tropical forests account for around 45% of forest cover globally. These forests are well-known for their high biodiversity and the crucial ecosystem services that they provide. They also hold around one-quarter of all land-based carbon.
The new study assesses how deforestation and degradation affect “moist tropical forests” – tropical forests in the equatorial belt with a fairly consistent annual temperature and high levels of rainfall. Tropical dry forests and deciduous forests are not included in the analysis.
Research shows that around 17% of tropical moist forests disappeared over 1990-2021, largely due to human activity such as logging and fires. Of the 1,071m hectares that remained globally in 2019, around 10% were degraded, the new study says. This means that they suffered human-induced “disturbances” that led to a partial loss of their tree cover or function.
Furthermore, trees at the edges of tropical forests have higher mortality rates than trees in the centre, because they are more exposed to disturbances such as fire and drought. When intact forest landscapes become fragmented – for example, due to logging, fire, drought or the construction of roads into the forest – these “edge effects” can lead to further forest degradation.
The authors use data collected by the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument on the International Space Station to assess the forest structure – such as canopy height and aboveground biomass – over the past four years.
To measure canopy height, the authors calculate the “RH98” value – the height of the top of the canopy or the nearest tallest vegetation in the area. This is an important measure of forest health and maturity. Aboveground biomass measures the aboveground woody biomass per unit area and is also a good measure of forest health.
They combine this with data from the Tropical Moist Forest dataset, which uses Landsat satellite imagery to show how tropical moist forests have changed over 1990-2022.
The plot below shows the canopy height for different types of moist tropical forests. The rows show intact forests at least 3km from a forest edge (top row), degraded forests (second row), the edges of forests (third row) and forest regrowth (bottom row), as shown in the maps below.
Darker blues indicate taller forest canopies. The map shows where the forests are located, and the bar charts on the right hand side show the overall distribution of different tree heights.
The tallest intact moist tropical forests are found in south-east Asia, where the average canopy height is 34m, the study finds. West and central Africa and Central and South America have average forest heights of 29m. This is because intact tropical forests in Asia, which are typically dominated by “hardwood wind-dispersed species”, are typically taller, the authors say.
The map also shows that degraded forests, forest edges and areas of forest growth have a greater proportion of shorter trees on average.
The forest edge
The study investigates two different types of forest edge effects, exploring how areas of deforested and degraded land impact nearby trees.
Dr Lilian Blanc is an author on the study and researcher at the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development. He tells Carbon Brief that the effect of nearby degraded land “was not considered in previous studies”.
The graphs below show how areas of deforested land affect tree canopy height. The charts at the top show the average distribution of canopy heights of undisturbed forests in the Americas, Africa and Asia. The line colours indicate the distance of those trees from the forest edge, with yellow indicating a short distance and blue indicating a large distance.
The bottom map shows how far into the forest edge effects are present, by measuring the distance from the forest edge at which the height of the forest reaches 95% of the height of the intact, undisturbed forest.
The authors find the greatest edge effects from deforestation along the “forestation fronts of the Amazon”, in Borneo and Sumatra coasts marked by high fragmentation levels, and on the borders of the Congo basin.
They also record a decrease in canopy height up to 350, 400 and 1,500 metres from the deforested edge in the Americas, Africa and Asia, respectively.
The authors find that within 120 metres of trees that have been degraded due to logging and burning, the average canopy height in undisturbed forests is 15% and 22% lower, respectively.
The authors also investigate how quickly the forest can recover from logging and fires, concluding that while there is “fast regrowth of pioneer and understory species”, there is “no significant recovery in canopy height in the 30 years following the creation of a forest edge”.
Forest degradation can also increase the likelihood of deforestation, the authors say. They warn that forest height and distance to the edge of the forest are “strong predictors of deforestation”, as forest fragmentation makes the interior of the forest more accessible to loggers.
It adds that there has been selective logging 500 metres from the forest edge in Africa and the Americas, and even deeper in Asia.
Agriculture and road expansion trigger a 20-30% reduction in canopy height and biomass at the forest edge, with “persistent effects” measurable up to 1.5km inside the forest, the authors find. Blanc tells Carbon Brief that this is “an amazing result” as previous studies only looked for edge effects up to 120 metres from the forest edge.
The authors also calculated the edge effect using total above ground woody biomass, instead of canopy height. Using this metric, the authors conclude that the total area of forest with this edge effect is 18% of total global forest area in 2022 – an area more than 200% larger than previously estimated.
Prof Simon Lewis – a professor of global change science at University College London’s department of geography – tells Carbon Brief that this is a “striking new result”.
It implies that “the negative impacts on remaining forest from the creation of forest edges are much more extensive than has been commonly documented”. It also means that “forest protection of large blocks of forest is going to be more important than we previously thought”, he says.
Overall, the study is “an important step forward in monitoring forest disturbance, which is a very tough problem”, Lewis says. However, he adds that “care is needed” when looking at some of the observational data, saying that he “trust[s] the broad patterns of biomass loss following logging, edge creation and fires, but not the specific biomass loss values from these disturbances”.
Dr Peter Potapov – a researcher in the department of geographical sciences at the University of Maryland, whose work was cited extensively in the new study – says “the conclusion that edge effects are degrading 18% of the remaining humid tropical forest is an overstatement”.
He says that forest degradation depends on other factors, such as land-use regulations, and argues that “the assumption that all forests 1.5km away from the edges are degraded may undermine ongoing conservation efforts.
Expert response
These comments reflect the mixed response that the new study has received.
Prof Matthew Hansen – a remote sensing scientist at the University of Maryland’s department of geography – tells Carbon Brief that forest degradation is “a frustratingly elusive dynamic to quantify”. However, he praises the study for being “very clear and ambitious”.
Potapov, who has published research with Hansen, tells Carbon Brief that the results broadly confirm existing findings, but warns that there are some “major limitations” with the study.
For example, he says the method does not include a “matching technique” to separate the effect of human management on tree height from the natural factors such as elevation, soil quality and floods. He also warns that the observations “failed to correctly map anthropogenic disturbances in humid tropical forests”, adding:
“The authors greatly underestimate selective logging in Gabon, while the natural non-fire disturbances like river meandering and windfalls in South America were probably treated as human-caused degradation.”
Dr Flávia de Souza Mendes, a programme manager in forest and land use at satellite imagery firm Planet Labs, says the study is “well written”. However, she laments that “there are several local groups from the global south that have been studying this topic and are not part of this study”. She suggests that scientists carrying out similar studies should “invite more local researchers to take part”.
She also tells Carbon Brief that this paper “did not take into account studies carried out by local researchers on the relationship between degradation and deforestation”.
For example, she highlights a report by Brazilian researchers which finds that, in some regions of the Amazon, 86% of degraded areas were not subsequently cleared in the following decades. This is not in line with the findings of the new study, where degradation “has a crucial role in predicting future deforestation”, she says.
Prof Celso Silva-Junior – a research scientist in amazon ecology and remote sensing at Brazil’s Universidade Federal do Maranhão – tells Carbon Brief that the study “reproduces the findings of our research group, which has been investigating large-scale forest edge effects, using remote sensing technologies, since 2016”.
He says that the paper’s findings concerning biomass loss beyond 120 metres from the forest edge are “critical”. However, he emphasises the importance of the “local knowledge of tropical scientists” who are “deeply involved in the establishment of the conceptual framework for treating this relevant problem”.
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DeBriefed 29 May 2026: Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May | Indian heat deaths | Nigeria’s solar mini-grids
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed.
An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change.
This week
UK, Europe and India battle heatwaves
‘MIND-BOGGLING’ MAY: The UK and continental Europe have set “mind-boggingly crazy” temperature records for May amid a deadly heatwave, reported the Financial Times. According to the Associated Press, the UK “smashed a century-old temperature record for the second time in 24 hours on Tuesday”. The newswire added that records “also fell in France, where temperatures reached 36C on Monday in the country’s south-west”. On Wednesday, Portugal hit a record May temperature of 40.3C, said BBC News.
‘BRUTAL REMINDER’: In parts of Italy, the heatwave triggered blackouts, reported Reuters. The heatwave has also been linked to more than a dozen deaths in the UK and France, including from people drowning and suffering heat-related deaths while competing in sporting events, said ABC News. Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of UN Climate Change, said the intense heatwaves were a “brutal reminder” of the cost of global warming, reported Politico. Carbon Brief has in-depth coverage of the record-shattering heatwave.
INDIA’S DEADLY HEAT: In the southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, more than 100 people died within three days following an intense heatwave, reported the Khaleej Times. The publication noted that authorities urged people to stay indoors and avoid direct exposure to the heat. Meanwhile, some parts of India are “grappling with power cuts as record-breaking heat has pushed electricity demand to an all-time high”, reported Reuters.
Around the world
- CRUDE DIPS: The International Energy Agency (IEA) said global investments in oil projects will fall below $500bn in 2026, continuing a three-year decline, reported Bloomberg. Carbon Brief’s analysis of the data shows the US’s “data-centre boom” means it is now investing more in fossil-fuel power than China.
- DODGING NET-ZERO: The world’s biggest miner, Australian giant BHP, has backtracked on climate action by halting or delaying projects to cut “vast” amounts of emissions, according to a Guardian investigation.
- SOLAR SLIP: China’s new solar installations dropped for a fourth straight month, reflecting weakening domestic demand, said Bloomberg.
- NO LOGGING: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, according to a new report, said Agence France-Presse.
- EXECUTIVE ACTION: Puerto Rico’s governor announced a state of emergency to fight a surge in coastal erosion, citing the need to protect natural resources and vulnerable communities, reported the Associated Press.
Four million
The number of homes in the UK with air conditioning, double the figure from three years ago, reported the Guardian. There are 29m households in the UK.
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(For more, see Carbon Brief’s in-depth daily summaries of the top climate news stories on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.)
Captured
A Carbon Brief investigation has shed light on the impact of weather-related flooding on National Health Service (NHS) facilities across the UK. At least 67 NHS hospital wards, departments and other sites have been forced to temporarily close or relocate due to weather-related flooding. The chart above shows sites of weather-related flooding incidents at NHS facilities. The size of the circles indicates the number of incidents reported at each site.
Spotlight
How solar mini-grids can ‘help boost’ Nigeria’s economy
This week, Carbon Brief covers a new report on Nigeria’s solar mini-grid industry.
Amid the impact of the US-Iran war on the Nigerian economy, a new report has argued that solar-mini grids can help to reduce the country’s reliance on fossil fuels and create more than 200,000 jobs.
In Nigeria, Africa’s third-largest economy, the war has led to an increase in energy prices and a decrease in petrol consumption. Petrol is one of the country’s main sources of transport and household fuel. According to one estimate, prices have surged by up to 40% since the conflict commenced in February.
Although the Nigerian treasury has benefited from rising crude oil prices – the country is a major exporter of oil and gas – the impact has been most visible on the wider population.
Rising energy prices “have affected the purchasing power of workers”, Agnes Funmi Sessi, a labour union leader in Lagos, told Carbon Brief.
However, scaling the deployment of solar “mini-grids” could help the country move away from fossil fuels, stimulate rural economies and improve livelihoods, according to the new report authored by the thinktank, the Africa Policy Research Institute.
“We estimate that, by deploying over 10,000 mini-grids, the sector could create 212,688 direct full-time informal and productive-use jobs across the off-grid and under-grid market segments,” the report said.
A nascent industry
Solar “mini-grids” are small-scale, localised electricity generation and distribution systems powered by solar panels.
The report positioned Nigeria’s mini-grid sector as one of the fastest-growing in Africa, with the country having just 11 mini-grids in 2015 and 155 by 2024, along with at least 42 active developers.
Many of the companies within the sector are young and apply novel local techniques in their deployment of solar technology, the report said.
However, access to finance remains a huge barrier. According to the report, the sector may require up to $8bn to connect 35.4 million people to mini-grids.
“Most Nigerians want solar power in their homes, but it is a capital intensive business for vendors and customers,” Dr Ben Iheagwara, a renewable energy entrepreneur and policy analyst, told Carbon Brief.
The report urged the Nigerian government and its international partners to “attract private capital by de-risking investments and ensuring regulatory clarity and long-term planning”.
Other key recommendations for policymakers and stakeholders include investment in skills development and paying attention to the gender gap.
Powering rural communities
Many rural communities, which make up about 37% of the country, are disconnected from the national grid system, so often have to generate their own electricity through mini-grid systems.
According to Nigeria’s electricity regulator, NERC, a mini-grid is defined as a power generating system with an installed capacity of up to 10 megawatts.
A mini-grid can be powered by fossil fuels such as diesel or petrol, but solar power is now considered a cheaper and cleaner source.
With more than 80 million people lacking access to electricity in Nigeria, solar mini-grids are increasingly viewed as the lowest-cost electrification solution, the report said.
Watch, read, listen
MOVING FORWARD: The Energy Transition Show dug into electricity reform in South Africa, discussing the country’s coal legacy and the role of renewables.
ENERGY POVERTY: In an opinion article for Project Syndicate, executive director of the African Climate Foundation, Saliem Fakir, argued that the energy transition in emerging and developing economies is driven by economics and security rather than emissions targets.
VANISHING CITY: BBC News reported on a coastal community in Nigeria where the ocean has “already swallowed more than half of the town”.
Coming up
- 31 May: Colombia presidential elections
- 31 May-5 June: Global Environment Facility council meeting, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- 2-5 June: The Venice Agreement for Peatlands workshop, Kisumu, Kenya
Pick of the jobs
- National Oceanography Centre, engagement assistant (external communications) | Salary: £28,254. Location: Southampton, UK
- Dangote Industries, decarbonisation specialist | Salary: Unknown. Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- City of New York, chief decarbonization officer | Salary: $261,469. Location: New York City
- Climate Central, writer and associate editor | Salary: $72,000-$75,000. Location: US (Remote)
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At the African Development Bank (AfDB) annual meetings this week, several African leaders called for investments in electricity infrastructure which go beyond lighting homes to powering economies.
Applauding the AfDB for its energy programmes like Mission 300 – which aims to provide electricity access to 300 million Africans by 2030 – the Central African Republic’s President Faustin-Archange Touadera said that without power supply “we will not be able to achieve development”.
Speaking alongside him, the Republic of Congo’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso echoed this, saying that “as we need to help our people to turn towards agriculture, to turn towards livestock rearing, we also need to provide power to them.”
As the Mission 300 initiative advances, attention is increasingly shifting from simply connecting households to ensuring that electricity access translates into economic opportunities and livelihoods. That shift is driving the launch of a new Centre of Excellence for Productive Use of Energy being developed under Mission 300 by the philanthropically funded Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP).
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In an interview with Climate Home News, Carol Koech, GEAPP’s vice president for Africa, said the initiative is designed to ensure that electrification supports income generation, agriculture and local economic development rather than only basic household access.
Q: What is the Centre of Excellence for Productive Use of Energy aiming to achieve with Mission 300?
A: Mission 300 is increasingly being seen as a job platform and so the role of the Centre of Excellence in translating those electricity connections to jobs. So we want the centre to do four things. First, as a delivery engine, which enables countries to embed a cross-institutional advisor that supports the electrification components, but also other components that are happening in the country.
Second, we want the centre to be an innovation and strategy hub. Today, there’s really no place where you can go to find the state of the industry for productive use of energy across the globe, and we want to make the centre of excellence the place where you can go and get information about what technologies are available, where deployment is happening and how much is being deployed.
(Photo: Lighting Global/SunCulture/World Bank)
The third pillar is to coordinate and mobilise capital. We anticipate the centre coordinating internally within the ecosystem but also mobilising additional financing to help productivity. The last piece is how to scale businesses, enterprises and partnerships around this centre because we anticipate that as we grow this space, new industries will emerge and those industries will need to be supported.
Q: Why is productive use of energy becoming important under Mission 300?
A: Mission 300 gave us a bigger platform to demonstrate that energy is truly an enabler for economic development. It’s not sufficient to just provide a connection, but it is required that that connection truly translates to economic development for the communities that benefit.
We shouldn’t bring electricity and then start thinking about what people can do with it. We need to think about both at the same time and ensure electricity arrives together with the things that will make a difference in people’s lives. Historically, we’ve brought electricity and imagined a miracle would happen, but we know that hasn’t been the case.
The question is how to ensure universal access in the cheapest way while still transforming communities. Some mini-grids have been deployed in places where demand is extremely low, making them too expensive to sustain. But when mini-grids are paired with productive uses, the economics start to change. If businesses currently running on fossil fuel generators move to solar or renewable energy, operating costs fall and the business case for mini-grids becomes much stronger.
Q: How could this work in practice for agriculture and rural communities?
A: I’ll give you a practical example in our pilot country Zambia. Zambia has two programmes, they have the ASCENT programme for energy access and they also have the Zambia agribusiness and trade platform (ZATP). Some of the components of the ZATP programme – which is an agri-business program to help farmers to be productive – have a productive use component but don’t have an energy supply component. So we’re offering things like mills, processing facilities, irrigation and others. In some parts of Zambia, these productive use equipment has been supplied but has not been powered, so communities are not benefiting from that.
So the whole point is if we coordinate where the agribusiness programme is deployed together with where the energy access programme is deployed and layer those two programmes together in one place, then you could solve the energy access problem and solve productive use together and therefore have really meaningful outcomes for communities.
Q: How will the centre help both households and small businesses use electricity productively?
A: The question on whether we should electrify households or businesses is neither here nor there. We need to electrify all. The argument is really once we electrify businesses, the owners of those businesses will be able to pay what they need for their households as well as increase production for their businesses.
Electricity consumption is usually an indicator of economic development and by pushing productive use into households, especially where households are also smallholder farmers, the question becomes: how can electricity access translate to additional economic development for them? If you are connected onto a mini-grid, then you can actually use that connection to run irrigation, put in a dryer, or a cold storage system, whatever you require to improve your income but the fact that you have energy means that you can access productive use. Now, we need to ask ourselves how do these farmers or these households then get access to these appliances, because that’s another barrier.
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The cost of these appliances is usually extremely high, and when you have programmes such as the ZATP running in Zambia, that’s already a public funding approach to making these appliances available and potentially reachable for farmers, either at household level, at farm level or at community level.
Q: How does this complement the already existing Mission 300 national energy compacts designed by countries?
A: Each of the national energy compacts have a productive use component, a pillar that talks about distributed renewable energy, productive use, and clean cooking. This is actually complementing the work of the countries, and this centre is like an available support, back office for countries to tap into as they implement their national energy compacts, if they have specific requirements and support for that pillar three.
So the advisers that will be embedded into countries, their role is to coordinate within country programs that are running where energy could make a difference. The advisers will be sourced from the country and so they will make sure that the donor money is coordinated to benefit the country fully. Their role will include going to ministries of agriculture or any related ministries and understanding where they are prioritising programmes that require electrification. In many cases, programmes and money have already been allocated, but this component is about how do we deploy it in a way that it actually truly brings a difference, so those advisers will do that.
Q: How will the centre address financing and private sector investment challenges?
A: What we’re really looking at is different financing mechanisms. In the past, we have provided subsidies and results-based financing to suppliers, distributors and manufacturers to help create markets for productive-use appliances. I see this as one mechanism the centre could use, but the bigger opportunity is aligning public funding across different programmes so that more of it can support productive uses, either through direct funding or subsidies.
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When it comes to private sector investment, the reality is that Africa’s energy sector still faces serious constraints. Most private investment has gone into power generation, particularly through independent power producers, and even then that has only been possible in places where the off-takers, usually utilities, are bankable.
To unlock more private capital, countries need the right policies, reforms and regulations, but even more importantly, utilities must become financially viable. If the off-taker is not bankable, then the project is not bankable.
Another major question is how to attract private investment into transmission infrastructure. There are different models being explored, but the reality is that public funding alone is not sufficient to achieve Mission 300, so finding new ways to mobilise private capital will be critical.
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The “data-centre boom” is driving a surge in gas investment in the US, pushing its fossil-power spending ahead of China, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
A rapid expansion of data centres across the nation is at the heart of the US tech sector’s plans to continue “dominat[ing]” the global artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
High demand for electricity to power these data centres has led to companies rushing to build new gas-fired power plants across the country.
This trend, combined with “soaring” gas-turbine prices, drove a threefold increase in US gas‑power investment in 2025 – and the IEA expects this to continue throughout 2026.
As the chart below shows, Chinese investment in coal- and gas-fired power is expected to drop this year, amid domestic policy changes and the Iran war sending gas prices spiralling.
Together, these trends mean the IEA expects US investment in fossil-fuelled power plants to overtake China’s in 2026.
The IEA’s latest world energy investment report shows that spending on renewables and electricity grids continues to dominate at the global scale.
In the US, Trump administration policies such as the phase-out of tax credits for renewables has led to the IEA revising its forecast for new wind and solar power downwards.
At the same time, US electricity demand is expected to rise by an average of 2% per year from 2026 to 2030, with data centres contributing half of the overall increase.
This is leading to what the IEA calls an “AI-driven push” to build new gas-power plants in the US, the world’s largest data-centre market and largest gas producer.
Globally, orders for new gas-power plants increased to 130 gigawatts (GW) in 2025 – a 25-year high – and US demand was a “major factor” in this, according to the IEA.
Much of the demand is coming from tech companies in the US seeking to bypass grid connection queues by building “captive” gas-power plants.
As the chart below shows, since the start of 2025 these US captive data centres alone have signed off on more investment in new gas turbines than any country in the world – aside from the US itself.
Overall, investment in grid upgrades, power equipment and electricity generation to support the buildout of data-centre infrastructure around the world hit $105bn in 2025, according to the IEA.
This is more than the total invested in the energy sector across the whole of Africa – a continent where more than 600 million people do not have access to electricity.
The IEA notes that strong demand for gas-power plants for data centres in the US – and, to a lesser extent, the Middle East – is “limiting the availability of turbines for near-term deployment elsewhere in the world”.
The agency also points out that as the tech sector becomes a “major energy investor”, accounting for around 40% of all corporate power-purchase agreements, it is also “underpinning momentum” for emerging clean technologies, such as small modular nuclear reactors and advanced geothermal.
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