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As part of our Voices of Global Forest Watch series, watch and read about Justice Camillus Mensah’s work with Ghana nonprofit Hen Mpoano.

Progress on stopping deforestation and restoring forests must dramatically speed up in order to meet the 2030 NYDF goals.

New research shows natural forest regrowth, as opposed to reforestation by tree planting, can capture more carbon dioxide from the air than previously thought.

Tracking tree growth will help us understand whether those trillion trees are growing and whether our efforts to fight climate change are on the right track.

Farming in the Amazon. Photo by Sam Beebe. Creative Commons license information here. By Nancy Harris, Richard Waite and Katie Fletcher A decarbonization roadmap recently published in Science outlines decadal targets that put into perspective the monumental progress we need to make to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and keep warming below 2°C. […]

Cowling Arboretum. Photo by James Anderson for WRI. By James Anderson For me, few landscapes can rival the beauty of the tallgrass prairie and oak savannas of the Upper Midwest. During the summer and fall, waving sheets of big bluestem prairie grass blanket the rolling hills, dotted with tall, yellow-flowered tall compass plants, bushy wild indigo […]