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Copy Link Thick coastal forests with redwood trees can store double the amount of carbon per acre compared to shrubbier, smaller forests in inland areas of California.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Along the coast of Northern California near the Oregon border, the cool, moist air off the Pacific sustains a strip of temperate rainforests. Soaring redwoods and Douglas firs dominate these thick, wet woodlands, creating a canopy hundreds of feet ...

  Pohnpei—Mangroves are vital to the communities of Micronesia, and especially Pohnpei. They filter water from sediment and unnecessary nutrients, host nursery habitat for fish, crabs and other marine life, provide livelihoods and protect coastal communities from storms and storms surges. Mangrove ecosystems are vital to the survival of Pohnpeian communities by keeping them resilient and protecting them from the impacts of climate change and global warming such as more frequent droughts, flooding and saltwater inundation into farmlands. However, today, our mangroves are being threatened no...

The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere ProPublica 4 hrs ago ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was co-published with MIT Technology Review. Along the coast of Northern California near the Oregon border, the cool, moist air off the Pacific sustains a strip of temperate rainforests. Soaring redwoods and Douglas firs dominate these thick, wet woodlands, creating a canopy hundreds of feet high. But if you travel inland the mix of trees gr...

KNBN NewsCenter1 March 3, 2021 photo courtesy: U.S. Forest Service WASHINGTON — Congressional delegations from both South Dakota and Wyoming joined together in opposition of the U.S. Forest Service’s recommendation to reduce the timber sale program in the Black Hills National Forest. South Dakota Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds, along with Rep. Dusty Johnson and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, wrote to the USFS on Wednesday to express their concern that a reduction in the sale program would have a detrimental impact on the ability to manage forests in the Black Hills and local communities. A...

A New Foundation for U.S. Forest Policy Rich Guldin, recipient of the Society of American Foresters’ prestigious Sir William Schlich Award, is eager to talk about how forest research can inform smart forest policy. By Kevin Dennehy By the time Richard Guldin ’76 MFS, ’79 PhD took over the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program in the mid-1990s, it had become stagnant and ineffective. That was a problem because, as the nation’s forest census for nearly 70 years, the program helped guide state and national policies and priorities. Over the next several years...