The new Global Forest Goals Report 2026, launching this month, will reveal just how much ground we've lost and what it will take to turn the tide before 2030. We spoke with UN DESA’s expert Shyam ...

“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] ...

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun ...

Each year, burning fossil fuels puffs tens of billions of metric tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And for decades, the Earth’s forests, along with its oceans and soil, have ...

Picture this: our awesome planet is like a giant green quilt, stitched together with these incredible things called forests. These green giants aren't just pretty to look at – they're like Earth's ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture. Forests are the second-largest carbon sink on the planet, after the oceans. To ...

“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and ...

When her mother passed after battling Alzheimer’s, Suzanne Simard turned to the forest and her research into how trees ...

Mark Harmon crouches low next to log number 219: a moss-covered western hemlock tree trunk, five meters long, lying dead on the ground in the lush green woods. It’s marked by a thin aluminum tag. The ...

Large intact forests and connected landscapes support biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Globally, more than half of the world’s forests became more fragmented between 2000 and 2020, according to a ...