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  • Study Says Forests Are Best Tool for Biodiversity, Climate

    Mar 2, 2025, 12:00 pm By Syndicated Content
    This story by Marlowe Starling originally appeared in Mongabay A new study in Science indicates that reforestation projects, which restore degraded or destroyed forests, are the most effective land-based method for carbon removal and biodiversity protection.…
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  • How DOGE Threatens the Forest Service and Public Lands

    Mar 1, 2025, 1:00 pm By Syndicated Content
    by Shi En Kim, High Country News February 28, 2025 How many people were on Matt Ross’ trail team at the U.S. Forest Service? He doesn’t know the number off the top of his head, so he rattles off the names in his tight-knit circle of colleagues: Michael,…
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  • Weekly Forest News February 28

    Feb 28, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Canada is Getting 250,000 New Trees—A Step Toward Bigger Goals Canada’s Forest Trust Corporation and Forests Canada are teaming up to plant 250,000 trees nationwide this year, adding 125 hectares of new forest to the map. It’s part of a bigger…
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  • This Week In Forest Finance February 27

    Feb 27, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Australia Just Dropped KES 287M on Kenya’s Land Restoration. Here’s Why It Matters: Australia is putting its money where the trees are, committing KES 287 million (AUD 3.5 million) to help restore Kenya’s degraded landscapes. The initiative spearheaded…
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  • Fact-Checking the Great Green Wall’s Progress

    Feb 26, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Claim: The Great Green Wall (GGW) is 15% complete and is bringing life back to degraded African landscapes at an unprecedented scale. Rating: Partly True Summary: The claim that the Great Green Wall is 15% complete has been repeated since at least 2019, with…
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  • Voluntary Carbon Market: Buyers Demand Transparency and Quality

    Feb 25, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) is evolving, and buyers are becoming increasingly discerning. According to the latest Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) report, companies are willing to pay a premium for high-quality,…
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  • Investment Fund For Nature: Exploring Brazil's TFFF

    Feb 24, 2025, 11:40 am By Syndicated Content
    This article was originally published in Mongabay. The Brazilian government in 2023 announced a novel funding mechanism to incentivize forest preservation: the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). In an episode of Mongabay’s weekly podcast Newscast,…
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  • How to Find Climate Data the Trump Administration Hid Away

    Feb 23, 2025, 12:20 pm By Syndicated Content
    Eric Nost, University of Guelph and Alejandro Paz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Information on the internet might seem like it’s there forever, but it’s only as permanent as people choose to make it. That’s apparent as the second Trump…
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  • Most Pacific Atoll Forests Are Coconut Palm Plantations

    Feb 22, 2025, 12:00 pm By Syndicated Content
    This article by Kritisne Sabillo originally appeared in Mongabay. What’s new: More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in…
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  • Ground Truth Weekly Forest News February 21

    Feb 21, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Re.green and Agro Penido Team Up for Amazon Restoration Re.green, a private equity-backed reforestation startup, has partnered with agribusiness giant Agro Penido to restore 600 hectares of degraded Amazon land. The project aims to generate 300,000 carbon…
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  • This Week In Forest Finance, February 20

    Feb 20, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Carbify Seeks WALD Grant to Scale Blockchain-Powered Reforestation Carbify, the Netherlands-based blockchain-powered carbon offsetting company, is vying for the WALD Innovation Facility grant—because saving the planet requires both trees and funding.…
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  • Pakistan’s Coastal Comeback Needs Transparency, Say Experts

    Feb 19, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Mangrove forests: nature’s answer to climate chaos, the fisheries sector’s best friend, and—let’s be honest—Pakistan’s shot at some serious blue carbon credit cash. But here’s the kicker: if we’re going to reforest our coastline, we better do…
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  • Ethiopia's 50 Billion Tree Plan: Hype or Reality?

    Feb 18, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    According to the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA), the government claims that Ethiopia is on track to plant 50 billion trees by 2026 as part of its Green Legacy Initiative. If true, this would be one of the largest reforestation efforts in history.…
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  • Federal Firings Hit U.S. Forest Service in Alaska

    Feb 17, 2025, 12:00 pm By Syndicated Content
    by Corinne Smith, Alaska Beacon February 14, 2025 At least 30 federal workers with the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska have been terminated immediately, as of Thursday, according to the National Federation of Federal Employees union. “We got word yesterday…
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  • Project to Restore Andean Forest Takes Root

    12:00pm By Syndicated Content
    This story by Antonio José Paz Cardona was originally published in Mongabay n 2024, the United Nations recognized seven landmark projects worldwide as outstanding examples of success under its ongoing Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). One of them…
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  • We Need a Data Revolution to Avert Climate Disaster

    Sat 12:00pm By Syndicated Content
    This article was originally published in DeSmog By Stephen MarshallonJan 28, 2025 @ 09:57 PST  The fires in Los Angeles represent a catastrophic failure to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. In the aftermath of such devastation, an obvious…
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  • Ground Truth Weekly Forest News February 14

    Feb 14, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Honduras and Korea Partner to Boost Forest Carbon Markets   Honduras and Korea have joined forces to collaborate on forest conservation and carbon markets. The five-year partnership will support REDD+ activities—reducing deforestation, enhancing forest…
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  • This Week In Forest Finance February 13

    Feb 13, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Green Success Stories: Scaling Tree-Planting with One Tree Planted Join a March 13 webinar featuring reforestation leaders One Tree Planted, Growing Trees Network, Plantăm fapte bune în România, and My Forest Armenia. Discover how these organizations are…
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  • This Week In Forest Finance February 13

    Feb 13, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Green Success Stories: Scaling Tree-Planting with One Tree Planted Join a March 13 webinar featuring reforestation leaders One Tree Planted, Growing Trees Network, Plantăm fapte bune în România, and My Forest Armenia. Discover how these organizations are…
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  • Open Data Charter on the Importance of Environmental Data

    Feb 12, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Does Money Grow on Trees? Environmental data is the planet’s version of the stock market—a key indicator of health and risk that we ignore at our own peril. As DeSmog recently pointed out, we monitor financial data obsessively because lives and livelihoods…
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