FRPA affects the interests and well-being of virtually all British Columbians. That's why we're inviting Indigenous peoples and communities throughout the province, industry stakeholders and the public to offer their perspectives on the sustainable management of B.C.'s forest and range resources.
Nature has given us a great ally in the effort to slow climate change: forests.
Nearly a quarter of all the greenhouse gases emitted by man come from the way we manage our forests, farms and fields.
When the product is invisible, the cons are endless.
Israel’s Yatir Forest has been hailed as a green refuge in the Negev that is helping fight climate change. But some Israeli ecologists now contend that it has wiped out important desert ecosystems and shows that forestation projects are not always an unalloyed environmental good.
Forest elephants help prevent climate change by munching on smaller plants and trees making room for larger trees that store more carbon.
The Verified Carbon Standard unlocks the power of carbon credits to halt deforestation. With the right backing, it could make a huge dent in global emissions.
Heather Clancy takes the microscope to the tech giant's first foray into nature-based solutions
Unprecedented warming in the Arctic could accelerate the pace of climate change.
Forests are massive carbon sinks, and the U.S., alongside other developed countries, are donating large sums of money to protect these carbon-rich landscapes from deforestation.
Over one-third of the land in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is either covered by development or agriculture. This poses obstacles to water quality in the form of nutrients, sediments, and other pollutants, but also to terrestrial wildlife that have little or no habitat in these settings. Luckily, both water quality and wildlife habitat issues can ...
"They said they want to build reliable policies on climate change, but I build way more stuff than those so called leaders."
Tribes and Native-owned corporations are making huge profits by conserving their forests for carbon offset programs—an effort that could revolutionize conservation
Politicians and planners often sell roads as wholly beneficial to communities. New arteries open up opportunities for employment, connections to markets and access to services such as health care, so the thinking goes. Despite these potential benefits, however, support for new roads isn’t universal. That’s a key finding of a recent study of indigenous communities […]
If the state is truly concerned about the climate, it urgently needs to look to its forests — which are unhealthy, thick with dead and dying trees and other heavy fuels, primed for massive fires whose smoke plumes are an enormous source of carbon emissions.
We wouldn’t expect a fish to survive out of water. Or a seed to sprout on a steel plate. And yet that is what we’ve been expecting of ourselves. So what’s an
Research suggests that are many reasons to fall in love with marine forests, even the seaweed that gets wrapped around your feet when taking a dip in the sea.
Biden's executive order to preserve ancient trees is a big deal—but it could have gone further.
Carrie is The Conservation Fund's Director of Carbon Compliance. She oversees the Fund’s legal compliance related to carbon offsets, and leads the operations of its voluntary forest carbon offset program. Outside of work, she’s an avid runner and...
Halting deforestation would be equivalent to taking the world’s cars off the road. From APP to Wilmar, some brands are turning a new leaf.
Achieving zero-deforestation in food supply chains is a tall order. But that hasn’t stopped corporations and their nonprofit and public-sector partners from str…