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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Forests are often called the “lungs of the Earth,” as if they single-handedly supply the air humans breathe. In reality, NASA and other agencies find that the ocean, driven by microscopic plankton, ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA – Environmental groups across the country, including Los Padres ForestWatch along California’s central coast ...

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 ...

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 ...

Through the Emission Reductions Payment Agreement (ERPA) for the north central region, hundreds of billions of dong have been allocated, helping link forest conservation with sustainable livelihoods ...

Tropical forests help to generate vast amounts of rainfall each year, adding weight to arguments for protecting them as water and climate pressures increase, say researchers. A new study led by the ...

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 ...