forests
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More Indigenous land victories like ours will cool the warming planet
"When we get full rights to our forests, we protect them, preserve huge stores of carbon, and help mitigate climate change."
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150 million trees died in California’s drought, and worse is to come
A new study suggests more bad news for California's trees.
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The debate is over: We need to start sucking carbon from the air
How to get the goddamn carbon out of the goddamn atmosphere.
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Indigenous peoples can manage their forests better than anyone else
Conservation doesn’t have to undermine social justice.
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This amazing gadget is the best technology we have for trapping CO2
Researchers found that the most efficient way to suck up a shit-ton of carbon was ... uh, trees.
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Forget everything you’re doing and just daydream about jumping on this 170-foot-long trampoline in a forest
Maybe all sidewalks should be trampolines?
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IKEA subsidiary accused of cutting down centuries-old trees
Shoppers might pay next to nothing for those cheapy cheap tables and chairs and bookshelves at IKEA, but the planet pays a much higher price, Environmental Leader reports. According to a forest conservation nonprofit, an IKEA subsidiary is clear-cutting forests that are hundreds of years old. [The Global Forest Coalition] — an alliance of NGOs […]
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Indian man single-handedly plants hundreds of acres of forest
In the northern Indian province of Assam, there's a forest named after one man — not a politician, or a historical hero, but a guy who lives there today. It's named after him because he planted most of its 1,360 acres.
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Forest scientists pit trees against each other in fight for survival
In Europe, forest scientists are setting up a kind of Hunger Games for trees. The goal, the BBC reports, is to find out which trees will survive in the harsh world to come: