The world's forests form a vast network of carbon reservoirs, keeping carbon sequestered from the atmosphere where its ...

Tropical forests, often described as the lungs of the planet, may be edging closer to a dangerous threshold as droughts ...

Markets to offset carbon emissions are now worth about $2 billion annually, and supporters say they're a key tool to address ...

Across the U.S., communities are planting fast-growing Miyawaki forests to help neighborhoods cool down and adapt to the longer, hotter summers predicted as the climate changes. WBUR's Bianca Garcia ...

The new Global Forest Goals Report 2026, launching this month, will reveal just how much ground we've lost and what it will take to turn the tide before 2030. We spoke with UN DESA’s expert Shyam ...

The world is falling behind on commitments to protect and restore forests, according to the recent Forest Declaration Assessment. There is no serious pathway to fixing climate change while forest ...

Forests are multifaceted ecosystems that perform an array of essential functions that both directly and indirectly impact humanity. They act as a nexus of the Earth system’s climate, hydrology and ...

The latest episode of the nature series reveals how woodlands help humanity in ways financial, ecological and medical.

While the EPA insists the benefits of glyphosate outweigh potential risks, the World Health Organization's cancer center is ...