Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them ...

According to the National Forestry Authority (NFA), the country is experiencing a high rate of deforestation, with estimates indicating that 80,000 hectares of forest are lost annually, placing Uganda ...

The country aims to achieve an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes by 2030 through increased forest and tree cover. India's forest cover expanded by 156 sq km over two years ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

or reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. Papua New Guinea has been hammering out a bilateral deal which could see it produce carbon credits for ...

If forest carbon sinks decline, “It could be feasible to not use these [geoengineering] technologies. But that would put even more pressure on all the other sectors,” says Windisch ...

"Forests are not an infinite resource, but need careful monitoring to detect reductions in carbon sinks early on," explains Florian Humpenöder, PIK scientist and study author. He also stresses ...

Forest & Bird says the need to urgently increase planting and regeneration of native forests as permanent carbon sinks and ...

Picking up a shovel, Chinese President Xi Jinping joined children, officials and local residents in planting trees on a riverbank in the nation's capital Beijing this spring, following a tradition ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion metric tons of CO 2 annually—about a fifth of all human emissions—but their carbon storage is increasingly at risk from climate change and ...