Deforestation

In what is described as the first thorough study to track natural forest expansion, researchers have found that nearly 59 million hectares of forest has naturally regrown since 2000, an area larger than mainland France.

How effective would planting new trees be to combat climate change? A new study from ETH Zurich has found that Earth has room to reforest an area the size of the US, and calculates what benefits that might bring. But of course, the story is more complicated than just planting a trillion new trees.

​​More than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon have been destroyed in the past 5 years due to small-scale gold mining. This is 30 percent more than has been previously reported, according to new research carried out by scientists at Wake Forest University.

Planting trees in remote forest locations is a slow, laborious process that still relies on humans with shovels to do all the work. DroneSeed wants to drastically modernize that process by employing squadrons of drones to plant seeds, spray for invasive species, and monitor the tree growth process.

Global Forest Watch is a Google-backed initiative by the World Resources Institute to provide fast tree loss monitoring to governments, NGOs and society at large in order enable faster preventive action. Launched in February, it is free to use.

“Biomass” is the seventh ESA Earth Explorer satellite to get the nod and is aimed at determining the amount of biomass and carbon stored in the world’s forests with unprecedented accuracy.

Scientists have reported success in using lasers to remove toner-printed text from paper, allowing that the paper to be re-used.

A NASA-led research team has created a new map using ground and satellite data that accurately quantifies the amount and location of carbon in Earth's tropical trees and forests.

A new study on the impact of historical events on global climate shows humans started to influence the environment thousands of years ago by changing the vegetation cover of the Earth's landscapes when we cleared forests for agriculture.

TreeFrog copier paper is made entirely from sugar cane waste and salvaged bamboo.

A biomass power station project is expected to reduce carbon emissions, power 50,000 homes and be covered by greenery

The next eye-popping construction to grace the skyline could be a seawater vertical farm that uses seawater to cool and humidify greenhouses and to convert sufficient humidity back in to fresh water to irrigate the crops.