Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study ...

French oil giant TotalEnergies announced last November that it aims to plant 40,000 hectares (or more than 98,000 acres) of trees in the Republic of the Congo. It’s an offset program for the ...

Researchers from the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program are involved in the recently launched EU-funded Trees4Adapt project. The project focuses on tree-based solutions for climate ...

The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors argue that these carbon-offset plantations ...

Researchers combined human and ecological factors to analyze the global scale of non-native tree species invasions. Human activity in hotspots of global trade, such as maritime ports, is linked to an ...

There is much emphasis on the undesirable feedbacks where climate change drives biodiversity loss (magenta arrows feedback). Here, we highlight the contribution of an underutilized positive feedback ...

By John Cannon Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, they sponge carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide renewed habitat ...

Lush landscape of the Amazon Rainforest in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. Lush landscape of the Amazon Rainforest in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.Getty Images As an ecologist, the most frequent ...

He warns particularly against the loss of tree species that occur only in very limited areas of the world. "We are talking about highly unique species, especially concentrated in tropical and ...