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For decades, a dominant argument for protecting forests has focused on carbon. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, store it in wood and soils, and slow the accumulation of greenhouse gases. A new scientific ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how the Arctic is at the risk of an invasion of non-native ...

A new study published in NPJ Climate Action proposes a more radical approach, suggesting that harvested boreal timber could ...

A snowcapped backdrop to Seattle and Puget Sound, Mount Rainier is a slumbering giant that last erupted in the 1890s.

ConocoPhillips Alaska can proceed with an oil and gas exploration program in a portion of a vast petroleum reserve in the state after a federal judge denied a request from project opponents to halt it ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less what happened in the northeastern corner of Siberia, thanks to tissue ...

This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population ...

Strategically planting trees along the northern edge of Canada’s boreal forest could remove multiple gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the end of the century, according to a new ...

Canada is currently leading a global movement to safeguard the natural world by implementing some of the most ambitious ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. Both ideologically and in the methods they used to achieve their goals, the Russian and American presidents ...