The Paris Agreement calls on us to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To reach this goal, we need to reduce CO₂ emissions and remove existing CO₂ from the ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

Amid rampant deforestation worldwide, one Scandinavian country is bucking that trend with an ambitious afforestation program. According to Mongabay, Denmark is looking to convert 250,000 hectares of ...

The transition from deforestation to reforestation will rely on local resource ownership, because this ownership is an unavoidable prerequisite for the financing of carbon sequestration and other ...

Critics say an Indonesian government plan to reforest 12.7 million hectares (31.4 million acres) of degraded land is a smoke screen to offset deforestation from a massive agricultural project. The ...

Researchers find deforestation accounts for about 10 percent of global human-made mercury emissions. While it cannot be the only solution, they suggest reforestation could increase global mercury ...

Affable comedy acting legend Dick Van Dyke turns 100 years old Millennial therapist has 1 question for boomer parents—"Respectfully, why?" The 'funeral theory' is trending — and it might change your ...

Simulations by LMU scientists show that large-scale afforestation and reforestation could reduce global peak and end-of-century temperature and shorten the overshoot period during which the 1.5°C ...

About 10 percent of human-made mercury emissions into the atmosphere each year are the result of global deforestation, according to a new MIT study. The world’s vegetation, from the Amazon rainforest ...