Forest ecosystems occupy a substantial part of the Earth’s land surface. Forests are crucial to global carbon sinks, capturing and storing terrestrial carbon and accounting for approximately 25% of ...

New report shows how forest restoration can benefit nature and people. 2021 marks the start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. As the world loses 10 million hectares of forests every year, the ...

Forest Landscape Restoration can contribute to improving livelihoods, protecting food crops, securing key habitats for animal species and reducing carbon emissions. The coastal and sub-montane forest ...

To finance the major investments in Forest Landscape Restoration, help from the private and financial sector is needed. To increase investors’ willingness to write checks, public- funded grants play a ...

Prolonged drought, landscape-level bark beetle mortality and catastrophic wildfire have been increasing in frequency, extent and severity over the past few decades, and western forests will be ...

This article was originally published by YaleEnvironment360 and is republished here by permission. Lyndon Johnson signed the bill that established the Redwood National Park in California 55 years ago.

The Karuk Tribe partnered with the U.S. Forest Service and other stakeholders to reintroduce traditional burning to help restore forests in the Klamath Mountains. The four-year-old project aims to ...