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Will we need to pull carbon out of the atmosphere to save ourselves?

Commentary: Protecting the people, not the polluters, says Greenpeace

Commentary: Greenpeace report threatens climate change mitigation and tropical forests

Greenpeace targets forest carbon offsets in California’s cap-and-trade

Mangrove deforestation 3x worse for climate than rainforest loss

Madagascar gets biggest protected area

Mangroves should be part of solution to climate change

165,000 sq km of Colombian rainforest mapped in stunning detail using lasers, satellites

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Pre-industrial deforestation still warming atmosphere

Greenpeace calls for global REDD standards to reduce negative impacts of forest carbon projects

Deforestation accounts for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, argues new study

Challenges mount as forest carbon payment approaches move from theory to practice

In Rio, 5 big companies to launch initiative to boost demand for REDD+ carbon credits

Warmer forests expel carbon from soils creating “vicious cycle”

Voluntary carbon market reaches $576 m in 2011

Emissions from deforestation depend on fate of cleared trees

Can loggers be conservationists?

Amazon tribe becomes first to get OK to sell REDD credits for rainforest conservation

As world bodies dally, private sector, local governments forge ahead on valuing nature

Global rainforest carbon map released online

Scientists say massive palm oil plantation will “cut the heart out” of Cameroon’s rainforest

Featured Video: the true cost of the tar sands

NASA satellite image shows extent of logging in Pacific Northwest

Colombian community leader talks about REDD

California cap-and-trade law spurs U.S. forest carbon projects

Rainforests store 229 billion tons of carbon globally finds ‘wall-to-wall’ carbon map

Bad feedback loop: climate change diminishing Canadian forest’s carbon sink

Deforestation, climate change threaten the ecological resilience of the Amazon rainforest

How lemurs fight climate change

REDD advances—slowly—in Durban

Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy: Book Review

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