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Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

New restoration “Playbook” calls for political, economic, and social change

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2021
New York, NY - January 7, 2020: Former Vice President & Democratic hopeful Joe Biden made foreign policy statement at Current on Pier 59, Lev Radin for Shutterstock

Scientists urge Biden to remove logging, fossil fuels, biomass from budget bills

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2021

In China, agroforestry serves up tea with a spoonful of sustainability

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Nov 2021

Indonesia’s flip-flop on zero-deforestation pledge portends greater forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Nov 2021
Illegal sand and gold mining in Indonesian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Do forest declarations work? How do the Glasgow and New York declarations compare?

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2021
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)

COP26 deforestation-ending commitment must hold leaders accountable (commentary)

Steve Trent 3 Nov 2021

The ‘net zero’ bridge to saving the Amazon (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 3 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
Planting mangroves at Junda village, near Mombasa, Kenya. Image by Kang Chun Cheng.

Mangrove conservation takes root with local communities on Kenya’s coast

Kang-Chun Cheng 22 Oct 2021
Rainforest in the Colombian Amazon

Amazonian ecosystems and peoples on the brink – it is time for a new vision (commentary)

Mercedes Bustamante 18 Oct 2021

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

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2021

Paper giants’ expansion plans raise fears of greater deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2021

Look beyond carbon credits to put a price on nature’s services, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 4 Oct 2021

For companies eyeing net-zero carbon emissions, ‘no clue how to get there’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 4 Oct 2021

Forest finance expected to advance under new TREES standard and LEAF Coalition

Aurora Solá 28 Sep 2021
View of clouds above Shenandoan National Park in the Eastern United States. Photo by Mark Collins vis Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Cloudy and cool: climate prospects from mid-latitude tree planting, study

Liz Kimbrough 21 Sep 2021

Project works with farmers to restore Brazilian pine forests

Luís Patriani 13 Sep 2021

Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated

Gianluca Cerullo 10 Sep 2021
Sumatran tiger

Indonesia terminates agreement with Norway on $1b REDD+ scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2021

Africa’s montane forests are more carbon-dense than even the Amazon

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 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

Mangrove restoration done right has clear economic, ecological benefits

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 31 Aug 2021

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

Justin Catanoso 19 Aug 2021

2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Aug 2021

Soil and its promise as a climate solution: A primer

Mareli Sanchez-Julia 10 Aug 2021
The Rietholzbach catchment is a hilly pre-alpine basin in north eastern Switzerland

Reforestation holds promise for Europe’s increasingly drier summers

Jim Tan 10 Aug 2021
Rainforest creek in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Hartree Partners to channel $2 billion toward new carbon credits

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021

Hotter and drier: Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon

Ignacio Amigo 20 Jul 2021

The science of forest biomass: Conflicting studies map the controversy

Justin Catanoso 12 Jul 2021
Thailand deforestation

Forest loss in mountains of Southeast Asia accelerates at ‘shocking’ pace

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2021

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