In terms of area, forest is the most important means of avalanche protection. It is also the most cost-effective and is naturally renewable. This insight hit home after the winter of 1951, when over 1 ...

President Joe Biden speaks after signing a proclamation designating Nov. 17 as International Conservation Day during a visit to the Amazon in Manaus, Brazil. SAUL LOEB via Getty Images The Biden ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The world is losing vast swaths of forests to agriculture, logging, mining and fires every year — more than 20 million acres in 2024 alone, roughly the size of South Carolina. Over ...

The Biden administration is dropping its efforts to issue a policy to protect old-growth forests — though the president previously touted protecting such forests as an important component of his ...

Revenue generated from forest carbon credits is opening up a new approach to forest protection and development in the central ...

Forest protection operations are among the 100-day Key Performance Indicators (KPI) set by newly appointed Natural Resources ...

More than 200 forest ecologists and top climate scientists, including Jim Hansen and Michael Mann, have written the Biden administration urging it to quickly move forward on the president’s commitment ...

The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled. By Somini Sengupta and Claire Brown To ...

The Forestry Commission has begun setting up protection camps at some notable forest reserves hotspots of illegal mining in the Ashanti Region ...

The Biden administration on Tuesday withdrew a proposal that would have protected the nation’s oldest, most carbon-rich forests from future logging. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore announced the ...