Carbon credits meant to protect forests may overstate their impact, with projects claiming far more emissions cuts than they ...

A summit on how to protect the world's largest forests underway in Gabon is set to be dominated by the issue of who pays for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of the ...

A major analysis led by the University of Cambridge has found that many REDD+ projects achieved meaningful reductions in ...

Voluntary corporate investments will play a role, among other financial instruments, in protecting tropical forests, but we need guidance that can increase the integrity and legitimacy of these ...

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 ...

A study has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their above-ground biomass compared to ecologically similar unprotected areas. A ...

The Government has intensified efforts to protect forestecosystems through a nationwide strategic fencing programme aimed at reducingencroachment, curbing human-wildlife conflict, and strengthening ...

Kenya's forest cover is under severe threat, with the country's forest cover being on a dramatic decline, driven by human ...

Researchers with Oregon State University say the U.S. needs to establish new “Strategic Forest Reserves” to protect wildlife and reduce the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. A new ...