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Members of the international study team pull a peat core from a wetland in the Colombian Amazon.

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

Erik Iverson 23 Apr 2025
The Pesalat Reforestation Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Humanity’s long standing bet on the persistence of forest carbon storage capacity urgently needs to be reassessed, says study lead author Michael Windisch

Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2025
Pine cone of a white pine (Pinus strobus).

Beyond reforestation, let’s try ‘proforestation’

Sruthi Gurudev 26 Mar 2025
Melquiades, a Brazil nut producer in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Forest communities craft recommendations for better ART TREES carbon credit standard

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Feb 2025

Brazil’s ‘innovative’ reforestation agenda discussed in Davos (commentary)

Guilherme Leal / Paulo Hartung / Roberto Waack 21 Jan 2025

Indonesian president says palm oil expansion won’t deforest because ‘oil palms have leaves’

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2025

Indonesia risks carbon ‘backfire’ with massive deforestation for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Dec 2024
Installation of solar panels.

Renewables won’t save us from climate catastrophe, experts warn; what will?

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 17 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024
Rainforest in Gabon surrounded by Ivindo River.

Satellites and lidar get AI boost to count forest carbon stock worldwide

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Dec 2024

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024
Snow and cold at the original CarbFix injection well in Iceland during late 2011 made working conditions at this field site more challenging.

Storing CO2 in rock: Carbon mineralization holds climate promise but needs scale-up

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Dec 2024

Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s new president

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2024
A burrowing anemone in the seabed.

Mapping ‘gloop and mud’ sheds light on seabed carbon storage

Mark Hillsdon 14 Nov 2024
Oil palm plantation

New standard for ethical palm oil faces backlash before it’s even issued

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2024
Wollastonite spreading in Canada.

Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise

Sean Mowbray 29 Oct 2024
Flooded forest, Peruvian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Carbon markets must recognize Indigenous ‘high forest, low deforestation’ areas (commentary)

Fermin Chimatani Tayori and Onel Masardule 24 Oct 2024
Waves off Scotland’s coast.

As tidal power rides a wave of clean energy optimism, pitfalls persist

Sean Mowbray 14 Oct 2024

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead

Carla Ruas 9 Oct 2024

Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2024
Prince Bissiemou measures a tree in a logged forest in Gabon. Image by Megan Sullivan.

Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 22 Aug 2024
A tree in the Serengeti grasslands in Tanzania.

Blockchain as a carbon market fix: Interview with William ten Zijthoff, Flávia De Souza Mendes & Maximilian Rösgen

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2024
Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024
A farmer applies biochar in the field.

Biochar could play big role in Bhutan’s carbon storage — but it’s news to farmers

Choki Wangmo 24 Jul 2024
The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 carrying the SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft to the ISS.

Space mission that maps forests in 3D makes an early comeback

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Jul 2024
The four-person field research team.

34,000-year-old termite mounds in South Africa are still being used

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Jun 2024
A phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis? (commentary)

Dr. David Koweek, Dr. Sara Nawaz 10 Jun 2024

Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024
A reforested mangrove forest in Thailand.

As Big Tech eyes the carbon market, will it work this time?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Jun 2024
South Kalimantan's Walhi measures the trees on Mount Hauk, the sacred territory of the Dayak Pitap.

‘Non-market’ solutions to deforestation need more support, advocates say

Ashoka Mukpo 31 May 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

Are carbon credits another resource-for-cash grab? Interview with Alondra Cerdes Morales & Samuel Nguiffo

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 May 2024

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