NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - North American forests will not fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide at levels once hoped for because the trees may not grow big enough, a study

Forests have an acclaimed role as a carbon sink needed to tackle climate change. Less known is how their contribution can be scaled up even after a tree has been logged.

Forests have an acclaimed role as a carbon sink needed to tackle climate change. Less known is how their contribution can be scaled up even after a tree has been logged.

For the first time, this United Nations report details the number of trees, forests and how the land is used in the world’s drylands. The findings could be used to track progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and help fight climate change.

BABATI, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Magdalena Gwasuma ducks carefully into a small, dark cage at the back of her house, where rows of fresh oyster mushrooms sit on wooden shelves.

GURGAON: In a big blow to plantation drive to increase green cover in the region as many as 3,000 saplings, planted during ongoing plantation drive of forest department, was uprooted in Mohabatabad

Punjab lost almost two lakh trees every year to development works in the past five years (2011-12 to 2015-16).

Mumbai: For a city that is struggling to save it's shrinking green cover, here's more bad news: Mumbai lost an alarming 230 trees in 17 days in June, out of which 81 were maintained by the Brihanmu

Dehradun: Incensed at the inordinate delay of eight years in construction of a road to their villages, hundreds of villagers of the Sarbadiyar region in Uttarkashi cut over 700 trees to express the

Hyderabad: Questioning the purpose of taking up plantation on one hand and resorting to indiscriminate felling of trees on the other, the Hyderabad High Court has taken up as public interest petiti

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