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The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024
A female mountain gorilla carrying her baby on her back.

Biodiversity credit approaches multiply as concerns cloud confidence

John Cannon 19 Nov 2024

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2024
Greater Greener Gloster community members stand in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as they demand the cleanup of the Drax pellet mill

New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood pellet mills

Justin Catanoso 24 Oct 2024
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

Justin Catanoso 17 Oct 2024

Climate change could threaten newly described ‘shiny’ North American bees

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Sep 2024
Adriane Esquivel Muelbert and Evan Gora examine a fallen giant tree in the Amazon, hoping to identify hints of its cause of death.

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

Daniel Grossman 29 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

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2024
BC wildfire service crew and partners conduct a prescribed burn in southeastern British Columbia in April 2024.

As the world burns, can we learn to live with wildfire health risks?

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2024
A member of a Quebequois fire crew assisting on a fire in the Plumas National Forest in northern California in 2020.

The health impacts of escalating megafires are everyone’s problem

Ruth Kamnitzer 1 Jul 2024
An Amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)

‘It is indeed our problem’: Interview with Mário Soares on Brazil’s mangroves

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 1 Jul 2024
Ecosystem destruction on Borneo peatlands.

Better accounting of peat and mangrove carbon to help Indonesia’s climate policies

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 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

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 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
Catherine Toro

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

César Giraldo 15 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
A jaguar

Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Mar 2024
A Borneo elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) in the Kinabatangan River

UN probes controversial forest carbon agreement in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 18 Mar 2024
This photo of logged old-growth forest outside Olympia National Park, shows what can happen when mature forests aren’t given full protection.

Forest and climate scientists fear Biden delay on mature forest protection

Justin Catanoso 5 Mar 2024
Indonesia forest and ocean

Forest diversity is key to Southeast Asia’s climate adaptability, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jan 2024
People holding wood pellets.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024

Markets and forests: 7 takeaways from our series on the forest carbon trade

John Cannon 17 Jan 2024
A teacher and farmer in Lukolela, DRC.

The future of forest carbon credits and voluntary markets

John Cannon 16 Jan 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations

John Cannon 12 Jan 2024
Women making skirts from grass in Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

‘Cowboys’ and intermediaries thrive in Wild West of the carbon market

John Cannon 9 Jan 2024
Aellow-cheeked crested gibbon

Do carbon credits really help communities that keep forests standing?

John Cannon 5 Jan 2024

False claims of U.N. backing see Indigenous groups cede forest rights for sketchy finance

Gloria Pallares 4 Jan 2024
A fisher casts a net in Malaysia.

Forest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?

John Cannon 3 Jan 2024

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