A new study reveals that despite fires and logging in parts of Canada and Siberia, the majority of the vast boreal forest remains mature, holding significant carbon. Researchers mapped forest ages, ...

In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially ...

More than 60 percent of the trees managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management make up mature or old-growth forest—nearly double previous estimates—according to an inventory that ...

Jun. 20—Old trees are back in the spotlight with the release of a U.S. Forest Service plan to preserve old-growth forests. The plan follows a directive by President Joe Biden in April 2022 to protect ...

Timber sale production in the Chatahochee National Forest in Georgia on July 31, 2017. Conservationists say National Forests need to be left alone now more than ever to maximize carbon capture. Some ...

Forests are critically important for slowing climate change. They remove huge quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—30% of all fossil fuel emissions annually—and store carbon in trees and ...

A new study quantifies the amount of carbon in a sampling of publicly held U.S. forests, demonstrating the importance of mature and old-growth stands. As much as two-thirds of the carbon held in the ...

The nation's oldest trees are getting new protections under a Biden administration initiative to make it harder to cut down old-growth forests for lumber. The news has implications for climate change ...

More than 200 forest ecologists and top climate scientists, including Jim Hansen and Michael Mann, have written the Biden administration urging it to quickly move forward on the president’s commitment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove speaks during a press conference at the High Peak Trailhead on Tiger Peak Mountain on ...