A FOREST FIX: President George Bush working with a handsaw in a dry Western forest Credit: John Epperson photo, The Denver Post Portland, Ore. – The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan, a federally imposed ...

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 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 ...

Can listening to forests help us understand if the life inside them is thriving? Apparently, yes. Giacomo Delgado likens it ...

But despite conservation wins like this, recent research reveals a sobering reality: Brazil’s Atlantic Forest continues to lose thousands of hectares of mature forest each year, even though it’s ...

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 ...

Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate -- it also noticeably improves the health of humans who live in the corresponding regions. Researchers show that measures to ...

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. Subscribe to our ...

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 ...