A new study by World Bank-WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use shows that protecting forest areas provides a cost-effective means of supplying many of the world’s biggest cities ...
We’ll hear more from Ann Vileisis, mayor of Port Orford, which received one of the grants. We’ll also learn about community forests more broadly from Dylan Kruse, president of the conservation ...
Arbor Day has its roots in the 1870s, when the horticulturist J. Sterling Morton spearheaded a movement to green Nebraska’s largely treeless plains. Since then, citizens, businesses and governments ...
A recent article in the Altoona Mirror emphasized the foresight and wisdom of the Altoona Water Authority in acquiring and maintaining forested watersheds around its seven reservoirs supplying water ...
Lake Powell, a vital water source in the Colorado River Basin that serves 40 million people, has suffered from severe drought in recent years. Though water levels have recovered from historic lows, ...
The Trump administration’s proposed rollback of the 2001 roadless rule threatens nearly 58 million acres of undeveloped backcountry forestland, jeopardizing crucial drinking water sources for ...
While evergreen trees are a staple of Christmas, they mean so much more to Aspen and the surrounding White River National ...
Trees consume water through evaporation and transpiration, so many believed that more trees meant less water for rivers, wells, and agriculture. But a major new synthesis of global evidence, published ...
Forests, which cover a third of Earth's land surface, are pivotal in carbon storage and the water cycle, though the full scope of their impact remains to be fully understood. In a new study, ...