Clock is running on our reliance on vegetation as a steady ‘carbon sink’
Trees and other plants have been critical in helping to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. But newly published scientific findings suggest the clock...
Is this the end of forests as we’ve known them?
Camille Stevens-Rumann never used to worry about seeing dead trees. As a wildland firefighter in the American west, she encountered untold numbers killed in blazes...
Illegal deforestation is ravaging the planet and driving emissions up
The U.S. relies heavily on imported agriculture commodities. Nearly half of all the processed items Americans buy in grocery stores contain palm oil from around...
Planting Trees Sounds Like A Simple Climate Fix. It’s Anything But.
A peat bog forms over thousands of years as plants decay into a dense, dark, soggy soil that traps their carbon content within. Peatlands are...
The Man Who Transformed the Desert Into a Forest by Planting Trees for 40 Years
When talking about saving the environment, most people come with the comment of “how much difference will I make?” just showing the poor attitudes people...
Former U.S. Climate Leaders Press Biden on Amazon Deforestation
During his presidential campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the United States should mobilize $20 billion to stop the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and...
Scientists Say Tree Planting Initiatives Might Be Backfiring
On January 25, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the UK, led by Dr. Alice Di Sacco and Dr. Kate Hardwick, published a...
The state of the climate in 2021
After the turbulent year of 2020, BBC Future takes stock on the state of the climate at the beginning of 2021.