More than 200 forest ecologists and top climate scientists, including Jim Hansen and Michael Mann, have written the Biden administration urging it to quickly move forward on the president’s commitment ...

An Alabama legislator is championing an unconventional cause — the push to grant federal protection as a National Marine Sanctuary to an ancient forest thriving beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico ...

In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially ...

From the Amazon to the Congo, rainforests are vital ecosystems that have long been plundered to make way for mining or agriculture. But a new global forest fund aims to reward conservation.Though ...

President Joe Biden speaks after signing a proclamation designating Nov. 17 as International Conservation Day during a visit to the Amazon in Manaus, Brazil. SAUL LOEB via Getty Images The Biden ...

QUINCY — With wildfires both major and minor devastating entire communities in recent years, tensions between organizations and agencies have increased. Last week local groups announced a lawsuit ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA – Environmental groups across the country, including Los Padres ForestWatch along California’s central coast ...

The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled. By Somini Sengupta and Claire Brown To ...

A new camera-trapping study in Indonesia’s Aceh province has identified an ample but struggling population of Sumatran tigers, lending fresh urgency to calls from conservationists for greater ...

Guwahati, June 5: As part of an initiative by the Department of Forest and Environment, Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today attended the World Environment Day event held at Srimanta Sankardev ...