New research shows that protected forests with dense canopies are warming more slowly than nearby forests without protection, which buffers plant and animals living near the ground from global warming ...

Gia Lai covers more than 2.15 million hectares, including nearly 988,000 hectares of forest land. Of this, over 692,700 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 75, Hasta Bahadur Sathighare Magar says he still remembers the time when the slopes above his village in the rural ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The programme, organised by the Forest Department in a remote forest village of Koderma, saw participants tying sacred threads to trees after performing rituals at a forest altar ...

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 United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, according to a scientific ...