While planting trees may seem like an easy win to combat climate change, planted forests often encroach on natural forests, wetlands, and grasslands. This can reduce biodiversity, disturb the natural ...
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with John Hagan, president of Our Climate Common. In the remote northern half ...
Over the past four centuries, the United States has undergone a dramatic transformation, with vast stretches of forestland giving way to agriculture, urban development, and industry. Once covering a ...
Forests increasingly face pressures and risks such as pests, pollution and forest fires, all of which are aggravated by climate change. The EU aims to ensure that these precious ecosystems are ...
Most of Europe's original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, ...
From above, there’s no mistaking the loss. More than 11 million points pepper a map of the East Coast, each representing a once-living tree, in a trail of mortality stretching from South Carolina to ...