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Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

Biden pledged to protect old-growth trees, but proposed clear-cutting in national forests collides with climate policy.

By Marianne Lavelle

Timm Martin points out areas that are part of the Jellico Vegetation Management proposal to clear cut and log on 10.000 acres inside the Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton
Pakistani men rest in the shade of trees during a heatwave in Karachi on June 23, 2015. Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images

To Reduce Mortality From High Heat in Cities, a New Study Recommends Trees

By Danish Bajwa

Visitors look at the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree, a Red Spruce from Pisgah Ranger National Forest in North Carolina, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 5, 2022. Credit: Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images

The Capitol Christmas Tree Provides a Timely Reminder on Environmental Stewardship This Holiday Season

By Emma Ricketts

New research shows that protected forests with dense canopies are warming more slowly than nearby forests without protection, which buffers plant and animals living near the ground from global warming impacts. Photo Credit: Bob Berwyn

Study Shows Protected Forests Are Cooler

By Bob Berwyn

Tree plantings in Sand Martin Wood in Faugh near Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K. Credit: Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

Countries Want to Plant Trees to Offset Their Carbon Emissions, but There Isn’t Enough Land on Earth to Grow Them

By Katie Surma

Toronto Mayor John Tory and Councillor Michelle Holland dig as they joined hundreds of others at Warden Woods in the Warden and St. Clair area to plant 500 trees for Earth Day. Credit: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Championing Its Heritage, Canada Inches Toward Its Goal of Planting 2 Billion Trees

By David Shribman

A Baltimore resident washes her hair in a fountain at Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 30, 2021, as a heat wave threatens to make it the city's hottest day of the year. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

From the Middle East to East Baltimore, a Johns Hopkins Professor Works to Make the City More Climate-Resilient

By Aman Azhar

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Credit: Lula Sampaio/AFP via Getty Images

COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing

By Bob Berwyn

Researchers analyze glacial melt on July 10, 2013 in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Tuna for Vegans, Battery Technology and Climate Drives a Tree-Killer to Higher Climes

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Stephanie Jenouvrier has been studying emperor penguins for decades. Her latest paper shows that the birds face a dire future if greenhouse gas emissions continue to be emitted at current rates. Photo Courtesy of Stephanie Jenouvrier © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Warming Trends: Penguins in Trouble, More About the Dead Zone and Does Your Building Hold Climate Secrets?

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Forests of the Living Dead

By Liza Gross

The logo for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is seen in Tokyo on March 15, 2020. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Heating Up the Summer Olympics, Seeing Earth in 3-D and Methane Emissions From ‘Tree Farts’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Providence, Rhode Island skyline in the morning from the Seekonk River in Autumn. Credit: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Warming Trends: A Baby Ferret May Save a Species, Providence, R.I. is Listed as Endangered, and Fish as a Carbon Sink

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Tourists are seen playing with falling maple leaves at a Mughal garden during the autumn season in Kashmire on Nov. 12, 2020.

When Autumn Leaves Begin to Fall: As the Climate Warms, Leaves on Some Trees are Dying Earlier

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

Madeleine Scammell. Credit: Phil McKenna/InsideClimate News

Tree Deaths in Urban Settings Are Linked to Leaks from Natural Gas Pipelines Below Streets

By Phil McKenna

Magnolia trees on Broadway, a busy street in downtown San Diego

City Weighs Benefit of Urban Forest

By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News

Studies Find Faster Tree Growth as Climate Changes, Potential to Drive Further Warming

By Dave Levitan

Climate Change Killing Trees in Countries Around the World

By Amy Westervelt

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