ALBANY — A total of $1.35 million is now available through the fourth round of the Forest Conservation Easements for Land Trusts Grant Program to help conserve the benefits of forests. Eligible ...

The Conservation Fund recently bought a 44,000-acre swath of mountain and forestland along the Canadian border in northern Maine for $44.4 million. PHOTO / COURTESY JERRY MONKMAN, THE CONSERVATION ...

December 19, 2023 — Thousands of years ago, oak, ash and hazel trees blanketed with moss and ivy grew from a teeming understory of fern, willow and scattered mushrooms, nearly completely covering ...

Communities play a critical role in REDD+, a forest conservation strategy that aims to reduce emissions that can be sold as credits to raise money for forest protection. REDD+ projects often include ...

Home to Asian elephants, gibbons and critically endangered black-shanked douc langurs, the forests of Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary were brought under a REDD+ project in 2010. However, ...

If thousands of trees grow together, covering hillsides and hollows, at what point do they become a forest? A small group of well-connected Nashvillians has spent the past few years learning exactly ...

(WBNG) -- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, announced that $1.35 million is now available through the fourth round of the Forest Conservation Easements for Land ...

This year, we’re at risk of losing millions of acres of climate-saving forests, and not just in the Amazon. Forests are disappearing in places like Michigan, West Virginia, Louisiana and New York. In ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Sept. 18, 2025 — As New York works to meet its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Climate & Applied Forest Research Institute (CAFRI) at the SUNY College of ...

A report from the Oregon Kelp Alliance found that nearly two-thirds of the state’s kelp forests have died out over the last decade. A multitude of factors appear to be behind the decline, including ...