CLIMATEWIRE | Carbon markets that fund forest preservation and tree-planting might actually be worsening climate change by increasing risks for wildfires that emit massive levels of greenhouse gases, ...

The UK and EU both have ambitious targets for planting new trees to help meet climate targets. But how much progress has ...

Planting more trees is often seen as one of the simplest ways to fight climate change, and it is. But a new study from UC Riverside shows that exactly where trees are planted matters just as much as ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

People are planting lots of trees in the hopes it will help slow climate change. It turns out this will work better if they don’t plant the same tree all the time. Any tree will suck carbon dioxide ...

Pep Canadell receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program - Climate Systems Hub. The climate benefits of planting trees may have been greatly overestimated, but swift action could ...

Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done. A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely ...

Redwoods in Northern California. Small, simple shifts in forest management have the potential to absorb hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide. Virtually every American has experienced ...

Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Canada’s climate is warming ...

Floods, storms, hurricanes, typhoons and blizzards are becoming more frequent and intense around the world. Every ...