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Forests

Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed
A new study says trees are absorbing 3.4 percent less carbon than has been assumed, including in models used to prepare the IPCC reports.
Trees may not be the planetary saviors people have been counting on in a warming climate. A new...
By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News
May 23, 2012 | Read More
Timber from Indonesia
REDD Forest Rescue Funding Caught in UN Carbon Feud, Study Warns
To survive, REDD will likely need investment to flow from a functioning international carbon market — which, outside the EU, is in a perilous state
The world's forests are in greater danger than ever, as a United Nations mechanism intended to...
By Fiona Harvey, Guardian
Jul 1, 2011 | Read More
Tower for horizontal drilling
Number-Crunching the Footprint of a Gas Fracking Boom, Forest by Forest
Pennslyvania has a total of 4.5 million acres of public lands. Estimates show that as few as 500,000 of these are permanently protected from gas drilling
Editor's Note: Some laud natural gas as cleaner burning, home-grown energy — a "bridge" fuel to a...
By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News
Apr 26, 2011 | Read More
Map of Canada's boreal forest
Q&A: Can Canada's Pristine Boreal Forest Be Saved By Conservation?
'What you're really looking at here is cumulative development. In a sense, death by a thousand cuts'
The Pew Environment Group released a report earlier this month urging protection of the Canadian...
Interview by David Sassoon
Mar 29, 2011 | Read More
Natural Gas Drilling Fells 1,000 Trees in W. Va. Forest, Scientists Say
In one of the first studies to observe the full course of drilling, scientists found that a well and a pipeline killed trees but did not affect groundwater
A new report by the U.S. Forest Service offers one of the most detailed accounts yet of how...
By Nicholas Kusnetz, Pro Publica
Feb 6, 2011 | Read More
Forests Are More than Sinks that Inhale Carbon, Study Warns
Well-meaning efforts to save the world's trees ignore forests' contributions to agriculture, energy, medicine and the livelihoods of local people
With their ability to soak up heat-trapping gases from the atmosphere, forests are front and center...
By Catherine M. Cooney
Feb 2, 2011 | Read More
Ideological Foes Assail UN Forest Scheme from Two Sides
Still, REDD maintains broad support from rich and poor nations and could be one of few agreements to emerge from the climate talks
CANCUN, MEXICO -- The prospect of a deal on forest protection at the Cancun climate talks has...
By Stacy Feldman
Dec 7, 2010 | Read More
REDD Forest Rescue Deal Still Draws Bitter Debate, Weak Agreement Feared
Nations are at loggerheads over fundamental issues, most notably Bolivia and the U.S. and Australia.
CANCUN, MEXICO -- Big holes remain in some of the most basic but contentious issues in a UN-backed...
By Stacy Feldman
Dec 3, 2010 | Read More
Indonesia Eyeing $1bn Climate Aid to Cut Down Forests, says Greenpeace
Weak legal definitions of "forest" and "degraded land" are allowing logging industry to take advantage of an ambitious UN forest rescue scheme
Indonesia plans to class large areas of its remaining natural forests as "degraded" land in order...
Nov 23, 2010 | Read More
New Maps Reveal Massive Forest Loss from Mountaintop Coal Mining
For the first time, users can view the geographic extent of mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia
by Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak, WRI Mountaintop removal has become an increasingly contentious...
By Guest Writers
Aug 8, 2010 | Read More