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Warming Trends: Forests Are the Best Big-City Water Filters, Plus Veggie Burgers by Default, Sea Songs by ET’s Doctor and a Reminder to Eat Fresh Food in the Fridge

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A portion of an aqueduct to move water to the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, is viewed on July 8, 2021, thirty minutes east of Fresno, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds

By Katie Surma

Forests of the Living Dead

By Liza Gross

The Amazon Rainforest. Credit: Diego Baravelli/picture alliance via Getty Images

The Best Protection For Forests? The People Who Live In Them.

By Georgina Gustin

Video: In California, the Northfork Mono Tribe Brings ‘Good Fire’ to Overgrown Woodlands

Video By Adam Sings in the Timber; Text By Michael Kodas

As the climate in the Rocky Mountains warmed at about double the average global rate in recent decades, rapidly spreading bark beetle outbreaks left millions of trees red and dead, part of an intensifying cycle of global warming impacts that decreases the amount of carbon dioxide forests can take out of the atmosphere. Credit: Bob Berwyn

Many Overheated Forests May Soon Release More Carbon Than They Absorb

By Bob Berwyn

A planned restoration of the forest, meadows and wetlands in this floodplain near Leipzig, Germany, will boost biodiversity by improving wildlife habitat, and bolster climate mitigation by increasing carbon storage. Credit: Hendrik Schmidt/picture allianc

Targeted Ecosystem Restoration Can Protect Climate, Biodiversity

By Bob Berwyn

Tree canopy. Credit: Alex Torrenegra/Flickr

Can Planting a Trillion Trees Stop Climate Change? Scientists Say it’s a Lot More Complicated

By Bob Berwyn

In Eastern California, the U.S. Forest Service is using controlled fires in Jeffrey pine forests to try and make them more resilient to climate change. Credit: Bob Berwyn

‘We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream’: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests

By Bob Berwyn

A farmer walks through a recently burned area of Brazilian Amazon rainforest in August 2019. Credit: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images

As Amazon Burns, Pope Convenes Meeting on Forest Protection and Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

Deforestation in the Amazon. Credit: Raphael Alves/AFP/Getty Images

Deforestation Is Getting Worse, 5 Years After Countries and Companies Vowed to Stop It

By Georgina Gustin

Soy fields cut into the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Credit: Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images

World's Alarming Rate of Forest Loss Threatens a Crucial Climate Solution

By Georgina Gustin

Ponderosa pines two years after a wildfire in Colorado. Credit: Lyn Alweis/Denver Post via Getty Images

Iconic Forests Reaching Climate Tipping Points in American West, Study Finds

By Phil McKenna

Warming Drives Unexpected Pulses of CO2 from Forest Soil

By Bob Berwyn

Jakeline Romero Epiayu, a Wayúu activist who has been protested against a coal mine in Colombia, has received death threats targeting herself and her family. Credit: Christian Mclaughlin

200 Environmental Activists Murdered During a Deadly 2016, Report Finds

By Georgina Gustin

The report also seeks to rebut the notion that burning wood is a “carbon neutral” alternative to burning coal and oil for electricity.

Logging Plays Bigger Climate Change Role Than U.S. Acknowledges, Report Says

By Georgina Gustin

A Limit to the Carbon Trees Can Absorb

By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News

Timber from Indonesia

Forest Rescue Funds Caught in Carbon Feud

By Fiona Harvey, Guardian

Tower for horizontal drilling

The Footprint of a Natural Gas Boom, by the Numbers

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

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