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New Research Shows Global Climate Benefits Of Protecting Nature, but It’s Not a Silver Bullet

Since 2000, protected forest areas have stored nearly 10 billion metric tons more carbon than ecologically similar unprotected areas.

By Bob Berwyn

Trees standing in the Amazon rainforest. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images
Custer Gallatin National Forest includes hundreds of glaciers as well as pine savannas. The Forest Service plans logging about 90 miles south of Fairy Lake in the Bridger Mountains, pictured. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Logging Plan on Yellowstone’s Border Shows Limits of Biden Greenhouse Gas Policy

By Marianne Lavelle

The sun sets behind a herd of bison in Wind Cave National Park, Aug. 14, 2001 in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota. A new study shows that restoring large populations of bison and other animals would speed up biological carbon pumps that take carbon dioxide out of the air and store it in a form that doesn't harm the climate. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits

By Bob Berwyn

Several institutions use Sage Lot Pond Marsh for research. Boardwalks allow scientists to walk through the marsh with heavy equipment without damaging vegetation. Credit: Joanna Carey, Babson College

Low Salt Marsh Habitats Release More Carbon in Response to Warming, a New Study Finds

By Hannah Loss

Lou Ann Varley looks out across the pond that holds water for the cooling towers at the Jim Bridger coal plant, where she worked for 37 years before retiring in 2020. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz

Carbon Removal Is Coming to Fossil Fuel Country. Can It Bring Jobs and Climate Action?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A recently logged patch of woods on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest on April 1, 2022 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

At COP27, the US Said It Will Lead Efforts to Halt Deforestation. But at Home, the Biden Administration Is Considering Massive Old Growth Logging Projects

By Bob Berwyn

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