Dean Swift has gotten really good at spotting where squirrels hide their seeds. In the forests of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and South Dakota, he looks for a moist shaded area with a small grove ...

Each year, U.S. cities lose an estimated 36 million trees to development, disease and old age, many of which ultimately end up in landfills. Losing these urban trees – known to help cool their ...

A tree can feed a family, protect a home, and educate a child. Reforestation is social development in green disguise. When we ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Reforestation has become a feel-good global rallying cry. From corporations touting ...

When a truck delivery of pine cones arrives at a reforestation center in Davis, California run by California’s fire agency, it starts a monthslong process—just one step in the complicated work to ...

Many climate change plans include planting billions of trees to clean the air, protect water sources and cool down cities. But a new study published in Bioscience found that U.S. tree nurseries don’t ...

The climate benefits of planting trees may have been greatly overestimated, but swift action could ensure reforestation meets its potential to curb dangerous emissions, new research has found.

Mongabay has launched an upgrade to Reforestation.app, our global directory of tree-planting projects, aimed at improving transparency in the sector. Reforestation.app is a free online tool for people ...

Climate researchers have known for a long time that forests affect regional climates. Numerous studies show that forests usually lower the surface temperature of the land in summer, helping to adapt ...

Since the beginning of the year, six communities in the East of the Marojejy-Anjanaharibe Sud-Tsaratanàna or COMATSA Forest Corridor in the Northern Highlands of Madagascar have been joining forces in ...

Today we discuss newly released data for 2020 that shows an increase in deforestation even as efforts to replant forests are sprouting up all over the world. Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Butler ...

A central ceremony marking the 74th National Tree Day was held on Thursday at the Bayt Halibiya forest site in the Lattakia ...