New report shows how forest restoration can benefit nature and people. 2021 marks the start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. As the world loses 10 million hectares of forests every year, the ...

Forest Landscape Restoration can contribute to improving livelihoods, protecting food crops, securing key habitats for animal species and reducing carbon emissions. The coastal and sub-montane forest ...

To the cartographers of the modern conservation world, the forests of northeastern Gabon can appear almost empty. Satellite ...

Forest loss does more than reduce tree cover. A new global study involving UBC Okanagan researchers shows it can fundamentally change how watersheds hold and release water. The research, published in ...

Prolonged drought, landscape-level bark beetle mortality and catastrophic wildfire have been increasing in frequency, extent and severity over the past few decades, and western forests will be ...

Forest hydrology, the study of how water flows through forests, can help illuminate the connections between forests and water, but it must advance if it is to deal with today's complexities, including ...

To finance the major investments in Forest Landscape Restoration, help from the private and financial sector is needed. To increase investors’ willingness to write checks, public- funded grants play a ...

This article was originally published by YaleEnvironment360 and is republished here by permission. Lyndon Johnson signed the bill that established the Redwood National Park in California 55 years ago.