Justin Catanoso

Justin Catanoso

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Justin Catanoso is a professor of journalism at Wake Forest University and was that program's director from 2011-2016.

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Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist with Oregon-based NGO Wild Heritage walks on a trail.

The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them

Justin Catanoso 27 Apr 2023
Logged trees for biomass in Bischofsheim, Germany.

EU woody biomass final policy continues threatening forests and climate: Critics

Justin Catanoso 3 Apr 2023
Sentinel-2A lift off.

France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport

Justin Catanoso 23 Feb 2023

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all

Justin Catanoso 24 Jan 2023
Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022

Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2022

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Justin Catanoso 7 Dec 2022
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’

Justin Catanoso 5 Dec 2022
This photo of logged old-growth forest outside Olympia National Park, shows what can happen when mature forests aren’t given full protection.

New study identifies mature forests on U.S. federal lands ripe for protection

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2022

EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores climate risk

Justin Catanoso 16 Sep 2022
Torrance Coste stands on a stump

British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2022

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022

Activists vow to take EU to court to fight its forest biomass policies

Justin Catanoso 14 Mar 2022

Hope old and new: COP26 focused on two largely unsung climate solutions

Justin Catanoso 18 Nov 2021

‘Standing with your feet in the water’: COP26 struggles to succeed

Justin Catanoso 12 Nov 2021

COP26: Are climate declarations and emission reduction pledges legally binding?

Justin Catanoso 11 Nov 2021

COP26: E.U. is committed to forest biomass burning to cut fossil fuel use

Justin Catanoso 10 Nov 2021
Indigenous activists protesting

Indigenous leaders share hopes and concerns towards pledges made at COP26

Justin Catanoso 10 Nov 2021

COP26: As carbon emissions rise unabated, scientists eye a methane removal fix

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2021

COP26 Glasgow Declaration: Salvation or threat to Earth’s forests?

Justin Catanoso 3 Nov 2021

As fossil fuel use surges, will COP26 protect forests to slow climate change?

Justin Catanoso 1 Nov 2021

Forest biomass-burning supply chain is producing major carbon emissions: Studies

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2021
Old growth trees in Olympic National Park. Image courtesy of Matt Shiffler Photography via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Justin Catanoso 1 Sep 2021

Burning forests to make energy: EU and world wrestle with biomass science

Justin Catanoso 19 Aug 2021

The science of forest biomass: Conflicting studies map the controversy

Justin Catanoso 12 Jul 2021

Forest advocates press EU leader to rethink views on biomass and energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Jun 2021

Illegal clearing for agriculture is driving tropical deforestation: Report

Justin Catanoso 20 May 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021

With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics

Justin Catanoso 20 Apr 2021

Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change

Justin Catanoso 9 Mar 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

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