In terms of area, forest is the most important means of avalanche protection. It is also the most cost-effective and is naturally renewable. This insight hit home after the winter of 1951, when over 1 ...

Along with a warming climate, one of the factors contributing to the trend of more intense forest fires is the way the forests have been managed. The longstanding strategy has been suppression: Put ...

Revenue generated from forest carbon credits is opening up a new approach to forest protection and development in the central ...

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WASHINGTON— The Biden administration announced today a proposed nationwide forest plan amendment to advance protections for the last remaining old-growth trees in U.S. national forests. Members of the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Meg Krawchuk of Oregon State University about the Biden administration's proposal to protect old growth forests. Old trees contain more carbon than younger trees. Trees ...

Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years. Half of ...

Heading into COP30, where tropical forests are set to be a central theme, it seemed worth looking today’s trajectories a little further forward and imagine where they might lead. Part 1 looked at ...

This post comes to PBS Nature from World Wildlife Fund (WWF). WWF and Nature are collaborating on a series of blog posts from WWF conservation scientists that will share the stories and motivations ...

Democrats released photos from their Epstein investigation, including pictures of President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton. A flood emergency is underway in western Washington as ...

PORT ANGELES – For some people, the auctioning of a timber parcel might seem like the end of the road: no refunds, no returns, no exchanges. Not so for local environmental activists, however, whose ...

An Alabama legislator is championing an unconventional cause — the push to grant federal protection as a National Marine Sanctuary to an ancient forest thriving beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico ...