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Dove Lake beneath Cradle Mountain in Tasmania’s highlands, where cool, ocean-influenced conditions have helped slow the pace of climate change across the landscape. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Long dubbed a ‘climate refuge,’ warming Tasmanian forests need our help

Stefan Lovgren 12 May 2026
Little Rock Creek Lake, with El Capitan in the distance, in the Bitterroot Range, Montana. Image courtesy of Magicpiano via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Invasive plant drives ecological change in America’s gigantic Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness (commentary)

Lyle Lewis 9 Apr 2026

Chile’s ancient conifers host underground web of life that sustains forests: Study

Sofia Moutinho 9 Apr 2026
Satellite image of the eastern part of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. Courtesy of Earthstar Geographics SIO / Microsoft maps

Scientists can’t agree on where the world’s forests are

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2026
Photo by Gary Tabor.

A hundred-year vision: Gary Tabor on the rise of large landscape conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Feb 2026
Rainforest in Brunei in 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Forests don’t just store carbon. They keep people alive, scientists say

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Feb 2026
Andy Mahler in Bloomington, December 2024. Photo by Steven Higgs

Andy Mahler, advocate for public forests in America

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2025
Chris Allnutt at the Heiltsuk First Nations' Koeye Lodge. The dogs are bear dogs to warn and protect the youth if there is a Grizzly bear coming into the camp. Image by Jens Wieting

Chris Allnutt, negotiator who helped protect the Great Bear Rainforest, died on September 21st

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2025

IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025
In this Sep. 26, 2017 photo released by Ibama, the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute, members a firefighter fighta a forest fire affecting Porquinhos Indigenous lands in Maranhao state in Brazil's Amazon basin. Image by Felipe Werneck/Ibama via AP.

More than half the world’s forests fragmented in 20 years — but protection works: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Sep 2025
The Bialowieza Forest at sunrise. Photo courtesy of Aleksander Bolbot / WWF. 

Last chance to save Europe’s greatest old-growth forest? (commentary)

Alan Weiss 3 Sep 2025
2017's Jones Fire in Oregon, U.S.

Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management

John Cannon 18 Aug 2025
A crew of firefighters fights the Vees Fire near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in July 2025.

Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management

John Cannon 13 Aug 2025
A forest fire burns in Valparaíso, Chile, in February 2024. Image courtesy of the Gobierno de Chile via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 CL)

Tropical forest loss hit new heights in 2024; fire a major driver in Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 May 2025

New alert system can track changes in grasslands, farms, temperate forests

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2025
Kapuas Hulu, a province in West Kalimantan in the co-called "Heart of Borneo", is one of the pilot provinces. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Do forest conservation pledges work? (commentary)

Matthew Spencer 6 Nov 2024
A rainbow over a baobab tree, Mombo, Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa © Beverly Joubert / iLCP

Resilient giants: How the world’s oldest trees stand tall against climate change (commentary)

Meg Severide 5 Aug 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024

The Narwhal makes waves in Canada for environmental journalism

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 7 May 2024

Rewilding Ireland: Healing from a history of deforestation, one tree at a time

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 27 Feb 2024
Russia's vast boreal forest is owned by the state and extensively logged. Image courtesy of Earthsight.

Biden’s new sanctions on Russia should include timber exports (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet, Tara Ganesh 26 Feb 2024
A guina.

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Petro Kotzé 22 Jan 2024

Forest conservation ‘off-track’ to halt deforestation by 2030: New report

John Cannon 24 Oct 2023
A humpback whale.

Indigenous funding model is a win-win for ecosystems and local economies in Canada

Spoorthy Raman 10 Mar 2023
The Javari River where it forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil-U.S. cooperation is key for global forest conservation (commentary)

John Reid, Paulo Moutinho 9 Feb 2023
A black bear stands onshore looking at four tundra swans on the water.

Peatland restoration in temperate nations could be carbon storage bonanza

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2023
Wildfires spark up throughout the summer and early fall in the western United States. (Image by David Mark from Pixabay)

Wildfires are climbing up the snowiest mountains of the western U.S.

Isabel Swafford 14 Dec 2022
Old growth forest in Washington State. Image by Udo S via Flickr.

How the Indigenous Shuar regained their ancestral forest

Mike Gaworecki 2 Nov 2022
This photo of logged old-growth forest outside Olympia National Park, shows what can happen when mature forests aren’t given full protection.

New study identifies mature forests on U.S. federal lands ripe for protection

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2022
Torrance Coste stands on a stump

British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022

End old-growth logging in carbon-rich ‘crown jewel’ of U.S. forests: Study

John Cannon 8 Jun 2022

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