The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.

By Sonam Lama Hyolmo For Indigenous peoples and local communities across Central and South America, financial opportunities ...

Seattle's Mast Reforestation landed $25 million in funding and an expansion of its wildfire operations into carbon capturing ...

Our planet is in a state of global warming. Trees absorb carbon emissions that contribute to warming. Therefore, planting trees will help in saving the planet. That is straightforward, right?

Which trees, where? Is woodland regeneration better than planting? And, more importantly, is the whole thing part of a carbon credit greenwash that is encouraging us to think we are doing ...

Colorado’s forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees – mostly due to insects and disease – have caused the ...

Historically, nature has used trees to turn carbon dioxide back into oxygen for use by living creatures. The trees play a vital role in the carbon cycle, and have done so for millennia.

Image by Rhett A ... For example, fast-growing trees with soft wood lose their capacity to store carbon, are less resistant to fire and drought, and generally die younger. Previous research ...

Image caption, Trees absorb the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. “If you plant lots of trees,” Dr Kuriakose explains, “they absorb some of the CO2 from the atmosphere and some of the ...