NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Matthew Hurteau, a forest ecologist at University of New Mexico, about the effectiveness of tree clearing and thinning in preventing wildfires or mitigating their intensity.

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. The difference ...

In our new report we recommend five ways to improve tropical forest management. Harvesting 5–10% of the trees does temporarily reduce the total amount of carbon stored in the forest, but these ...

When Susan Cook-Patton was doing a postdoc in forest restoration at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland seven years ago, she says, she helped plant 20,000 trees along ...

But little direct evidence exists to prove which tree species filled the forests before they were cleared for fields and fuel. Swamp-loving plants, like sedges and tussocks, are the fossil ...

Yet nature itself knows best what forests need to thrive. Reforestation works not only in the countryside, but also in the city. In urban areas, planting trees can help combat climate change ...

More than 24 million acres, a third of the state, are forested with trees like spruce fir, ponderosa and lodgepole pine. Three-quarters of those forests are publicly owned. Colorado has seen ...

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.