“If you can imagine walking into a huge, 1,000-kilometer square [386-square-mile] tropical forest … it’s moist and damp [with] rich soil and an overstory. You imagine walking into a 10-meter [33-foot] ...

In Awisa, a village in western Ghana’s cocoa belt, footpaths of red earth wind from small houses to a shallow, muddy hole in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study has mapped lowland heath forests (kerangas) in Indonesian Borneo, revealing major changes in their extent and limited formal protection ...

Despite the challenges, carbon markets remain one of the few mechanisms to protect tropical forests - while giving organisations and individuals the chance to compensate for their emissions. A major ...

In general, plantation companies view local communities and smallholders as obstacles to expanding operations and to securing social licenses. In deforestation-free supply chains, smallholders are ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Sept. 18, 2025 — As New York works to meet its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Climate & Applied Forest Research Institute (CAFRI) at the SUNY College of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. There are several activities that are affecting forests and ...

Thousands of Lancaster County residents year-round disperse into Pennsylvania’s 2.2 million acres of state forestland to hike, backpack, hunt from camps, fish, ride all-terrain vehicles, see elk bugle ...

If the claims of the National Resources and Environmental Committee of the National Council are anything to go by, Bhutan’s forestry policy teeters on the edge of economic self-sabotage. reliable ...

The Commander-General of the Nigerian Forest Security Service (NFSS), Wole Joshua Osatimehin, has appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to assent to the bill establishing the NFSS, aimed at ...