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Deforestation

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Climate Change

A Simple Step To Reduce Climate Change: More Trees

Planting trees as a partial solution to climate change has broad bipartisan appeal.

Ronald Bailey | 11.12.2021 11:45 AM

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Climate Change

Republican Lawmakers Introduce Trillion Trees Act To Combat Climate Change

A real plan or just a "climate messaging exercise"?

Ronald Bailey | 2.13.2020 11:15 AM

Trump getting a head start on a trillion trees

Forests

Trump's Trillion Trees Promise at the World Economic Forum

Meeting that goal would essentially restore U.S. forest area back to where it stood in 1630.

Ronald Bailey | 1.22.2020 11:20 AM

Not wildfires

Deforestation

Forget the Amazon Fires. State-Sanctioned Deforestation Is the Bigger Problem.

Environmental commons like the Amazon rain forest are vulnerable to shifts in the fickle winds of politics.

Ronald Bailey | 8.28.2019 3:05 PM

What most of the Amazon looks like

Deforestation

Don't Panic: Amazon Burning Is Mostly Farms, Not Forests

Problematic deforestation continues, but the "lungs of the earth" are still breathing.

Ronald Bailey | 8.23.2019 4:35 PM

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Deforestation

Two Brothers Want to Start a Christmas Tree Farm on Their Own Land. The Township Might Fine Them $450,000.

Gary and Matt Percy had to clear their land before they started planting. They neglected to get the government's permission.

Joe Setyon | 10.23.2018 10:50 AM

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Forests

Global Tree Cover Has Expanded More Than 7 Percent Since 1982

Satellite data finds that gains temperate and boreal forests offset reductions in tropical forests.

Ronald Bailey | 9.4.2018 1:00 PM

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Biodiversity

Predictions of the Death of Wilderness May Be a Bit Premature

Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2016 4:10 PM

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Future

Yes, the World is Getting Better. Here's Why.

Reason TV set out to cheer up Venice Beach doomsayers with evidence of positive global trends.

Justin Monticello, Zach Weissmueller, and Joshua Swain | 5.18.2016 10:42 AM

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Deforestation

Global Deforestation Rate Has Fallen by Half Says New Report

And there are far more trees than researchers previously thought - more than 3 trillion

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2015 2:03 PM

Biotechnology

Neoluddites Launch Campaign Against Biotech Trees

Ronald Bailey | 8.20.2014 12:16 PM

Open access commons

Environmentalists Shocked That Local People Protect Forests Better Than Do Governments

Ronald Bailey | 8.5.2014 1:38 PM

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