Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. They reduce the buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and land degradation by ...

“If you can imagine walking into a huge, 1,000-kilometer square [386-square-mile] tropical forest … it’s moist and damp [with] rich soil and an overstory. You imagine walking into a 10-meter [33-foot] ...

A major analysis led by the University of Cambridge has found that many REDD+ projects achieved meaningful reductions in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study has mapped lowland heath forests (kerangas) in Indonesian Borneo, revealing major changes in their extent and limited formal protection ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Sept. 18, 2025 — As New York works to meet its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Climate & Applied Forest Research Institute (CAFRI) at the SUNY College of ...

A Forest Service spokesman, Jason Hayes, wrote a letter (March 22) defending the final Nantahala and Pisgah Forest Plan, while rebutting criticisms of the plan from the public, whom he called “a group ...

New study examines the flow of ecological energy across old-growth forests, logged forests and oil palm. The study surveys mammal and bird species across these landscapes to calculate food energetic ...

Shelby Perry, a wildlands ecologist with the Northeast Wilderness Trust, inspects trees in the Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve in September 2022. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Updated Friday, ...

A study has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their above-ground biomass compared to ecologically similar unprotected areas. A ...

Thousands of Lancaster County residents year-round disperse into Pennsylvania’s 2.2 million acres of state forestland to hike, backpack, hunt from camps, fish, ride all-terrain vehicles, see elk bugle ...