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Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies

Taran Volckhausen 2 Oct 2020

New study shows where we should grow more forest to fight climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Sep 2020

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Justin Catanoso 31 Aug 2020

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Maurício Angelo 19 Aug 2020

In the Scottish moorlands, plots planted with trees stored less carbon than untouched lands: Study

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2020

Burning down the house? Enviva’s giant U.S. wood pellet plants gear up

Saul Elbein 29 Jul 2020

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change: Study

Chris Arsenault 23 Jun 2020

British Columbia poised to lose ‘white rhino of old growth forests’

Justin Catanoso 22 Jun 2020

Economists put a price tag on living whales in Brazil: $82 billion

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 May 2020

Scientists warn U.S. Congress against declaring biomass burning carbon neutral

Justin Catanoso 13 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

Arctic permafrost moving toward crisis, abrupt thaw a growing risk: Studies

Gloria Dickie 18 Mar 2020

US economy will take biggest hit if we continue with business as usual: report

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020

Tropical forests may flip into carbon sources sooner than feared, study finds

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020

Climate fix? ‘Fertilizing’ oceans with iron unlikely to sequester more carbon

Monica Evans 4 Mar 2020

Economists, conservationists, political leaders urge adoption of carbon tax to halt tropical deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2020

Escalating firestorms could turn Amazon from carbon sink to source: Study

Taran Volckhausen 6 Feb 2020

Carbon uptake slower than expected in Amazon secondary forest: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Feb 2020

Success of Microsoft’s ‘moonshot’ climate pledge hinges on forest conservation

Justin Catanoso 3 Feb 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett A. Butler 27 Dec 2019

‘The tipping point is here, it is now,’ top Amazon scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 20 Dec 2019

Paris accord ‘impossible to implement’ if tropical forest loss not stopped

Taran Volckhausen 19 Dec 2019

COP25: EU officials say biomass burning policy to come under critical review

Justin Catanoso 16 Dec 2019

COP25: Wood pellet CEO claims biomass carbon neutrality, despite science

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2019

Hopes dim as COP25 delegates dicker over Article 6 and world burns: critics

Justin Catanoso 9 Dec 2019

COP25 may put climate at greater risk by failing to address forests

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2019

Carbon emissions from loss of intact tropical forest a ‘ticking time bomb’

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Oct 2019

Nature-based climate action no longer ‘the forgotten solution’

Mike Gaworecki 27 Sep 2019

UN and policymakers, wake up! Burning trees for energy is not carbon neutral (commentary)

Mary Booth 16 Sep 2019

Two studies provide dueling looks at where trees should go

Gabriel Popkin 4 Jul 2019
Drained, cleared, and burned peat forest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Study: Vast swaths of lost tropical forest can still be brought back to life

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jul 2019
Planet satellite image showing a mosaic of deforestation and rainforest in São Judas Tadeu, Xapuri in the state of Acre, Brazil in August 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

Amazon REDD+ scheme side-steps land rights to reward small forest producers

Claire Asher 3 Jul 2019

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