Good Tree News

What’s white and green and cool all over? A city aided by science-based solutions that combat extreme heat.

This might come as a surprise: Worldwide tree cover has grown — not shrunk! — by 2.24 million square kilometers — the size of Texas and Alaska combined — in the last 35 years, according to a paper in the science journal “Nature.”

Major stakeholders have announced a new project to understand how mangrove ecosystems — and their contributions to coastal communities — are affected by climate change.

The National Forest Foundation has reforested over 21,000 acres of land in the last year and planted over 8 million trees to combat climate change.

The company tracks its projects in a detailed portfolio and has expanded its initiatives to include renewable energy production, regenerative agriculture, and more.

A large-scale win for reforestation efforts, the Biden Administration just announced plans to plant over 1 billion new trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the Western part of the country.

The country is curbing encroachment by paying farmers to grow trees for firewood and timber, but environmentalists say outside of plantations, the forest is still shrinking

Members of nearly 40 Indigenous communities in northern Peru were given training to use smartphone mapping apps that receive early deforestation alerts.

Prescribed and intentional fire management practices have long been cultivated by Native American tribes, and they continue to advocate for their effectiveness today.