No, the World Is Not Heading Toward 'Mass Extinction'
Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.
Forests
Can Genetic Engineering Save the American Chestnut?
“I think the Chestnut is an example of an interventionist approach,” says scientist Jared Westbrook. “We might have some capabilities and responsibilities to correct some of the problems that we created.”
Red Tape Fuels Wildfires Scorching America's Forests
We need to clearcut the government regulations hampering efforts to effectively battle wildfires.
A Simple Step To Reduce Climate Change: More Trees
Planting trees as a partial solution to climate change has broad bipartisan appeal.
Sierra Club Inches Toward Accepting Genetically Modified Chestnut Trees
Let's restore this giant to America's forests.
Humanity and Wild Nature Will Likely Both Be Flourishing in 2100
Human ingenuity is enabling us to get ever more goods and services from fewer and fewer resources.
The USDA Should Let People Plant Blight-Resistant American Chestnut Trees
Anti-biotech activists cite the precautionary principle to maintain chestnut tree-free forests.
Federal Regulations Have Made Western Wildfires Worse
Controlled, prescribed burns can stop wildfires from spreading. Too bad they are effectively prohibited by rules like the Clean Air Act.
Republican Lawmakers Introduce Trillion Trees Act To Combat Climate Change
A real plan or just a "climate messaging exercise"?
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.
Don't Panic: Amazon Burning Is Mostly Farms, Not Forests
Problematic deforestation continues, but the "lungs of the earth" are still breathing.
Peak Farmland Helps Solve Climate Change
It also protects and restores imperiled biodiversity.
Leaked U.N. Report Says a Million Species Are at Risk of Extinction
Such predictions were wrong half a century ago, and this one is likely mistaken too.
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.
Authorities Were Warned About the Suspected California Arsonist for 3 Years
"Why the hell didn't they respond? I reported this over and over again."
High School Students Are Very Worried About Overpopulation. They Shouldn't Be.
New report claims U.S. overpopulation will blight their futures.
Earth's Forest Area 9 Percent Greater Than Thought
Satellite survey finds hidden forests all over the world.
Predictions of the Death of Wilderness May Be a Bit Premature
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
Obama Falls 600,000 Electric Cars Short, Science Advances by Funerals, and Record Wildfires?
A scitech research and policy round up for January 7, 2016
Global Deforestation Rate Has Fallen by Half Says New Report
And there are far more trees than researchers previously thought - more than 3 trillion
Predictions of a Man-Made Sixth Mass Extinction May Be Exaggerated
Urbanization, forest, and agricultural trends point in a more hopeful direction