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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

Cowards at Rio?: organizations decry ‘pathetic’ agreement

Rio+20 and economic perils in Europe: opportunity for linkage

Scientists give world leaders ‘Fs’ on climate change, biodiversity, and desertification

Experts: ignoring climate change at Rio+20 makes other goals “meaningless”

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

Warmer forests expel carbon from soils creating “vicious cycle”

Massive algae bloom in Arctic like “finding the Amazon rainforest in the Mojave Desert”

Scientists: if we don’t act now we’re screwed

Want to stop climate change: buy fossil fuel deposits

Highest priority conservation sites provide essential services for people too

Voluntary carbon market reaches $576 m in 2011

Carbon dioxide hits 400 parts per million in Northern Hemisphere

IKEA logging old-growth forest for low-price furniture in Russia

Seagrass beds store 20 billion tons of carbon

Featured video: why one scientist is getting arrested over climate change

Emissions from deforestation depend on fate of cleared trees

Can loggers be conservationists?

Featured video: How to save the Amazon

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

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

“Don’t be so silly” about climate change: Mohamed Nasheed on The Daily Show

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

Tar sands emit more carbon than previously estimated

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

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