Deforestation and Global Warming
Deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world’s roads.
Forest Conservation & Management: Key Insights and Solutions
Redwood Wars: Inside the Battle Over Forest Certifications
Redwood Wars: Not All Forest Certifications Are Created Equal
How Green Is That … Toilet Paper?
When it comes to toilet paper, what you wipe with matters. We look at four toilet paper brands that stack up environmentally, from tube-free rolls to bamboo bathroom tissue.
Goats Against Wildfires
Goats are increasingly being used to keep down grasses and other tinder that can help start or exacerbate wildfires.
Speaking for the Trees
Decades of oppressive, one-party rule and economic embargoes have left Armenia overwhelmingly poor and desperate, and poverty has led to destruction of the very natural resources that are the country’s most precious heritage.
Beautiful Belize
It is possible to stand in the midst of a rainforest in Belize, surrounded by dripping trees and the cries of howler monkeys, and think that you’re in a particularly unspoiled corner of Costa Rica. Or maybe Brazil, before that country’s air was choked with smoke from burning trees and the ugly scars of clear-cuts. Possibly because of its small population of 200,000 scattered among 8,876 square miles of coastline, mountains and dense forests, Belize has escaped the headlong development that has marred so much of Latin America’s natural beauty. Even its largest metropolis, Belize City, is home to no more than 60,000 people.
Cutting With Conscience
Tired of feeling helpless in the seemingly futile struggle to slow tropical rainforest destruction? Try buying some wood–“certified” wood that is–guaranteed to come from an environmentally “well-managed” forest.