forests

Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report finds

'Integrated' plans that capture carbon and restore biodiversity while also supporting the livelihoods of local communities are not only less harmful, says Dr. Trisha Gopalakrishna — they're also more likely to succeed.

The largest study of Canada's catastrophic 2023 wildfire season concludes it is "inescapable" that the record burn was caused by extreme heat and parching drought, while adding the amount of young forests consumed could make recovery harder.

Fresh research suggests western Canada's once-dwindling caribou numbers are finally growing.

Bodies and minds are just as affected by climate change as sea ice and forests, says University of Alberta scientist Sherilee Harper.

Logging is a carbon polluter on the scale of the high-emitting agriculture and building sectors.

A professor at the University of Northern British Columbia has been tapped to study the ecological impacts of glyphosate-based pesticides on forests.

Aiming to protect and restore forests, and maintain local ownership of the land, Growing Forests has already raised $750,000 from 75 small investors, and the company has purchased roughly 900 acres of forest from woodlot owners.

The firefighting aircraft are important in a country where wildfires can often be spread out over massive, remote stretches of land, offering a way to hold off fires until ground crews arrive. 

A letter signed by more than 100 scientists is urging the Canadian government to take action to stop the degradation of its previously undisturbed forests from large-scale industrial logging.

As Canada struggles through its worst fire season in recorded history, a new survey suggests protecting forests remains one issue that unites most Canadians no matter who they are or where they live.

Unrelenting logging and fossil fuel burning have flipped one of the planet's largest forests from a critical CO2 sink into a surging CO2 source. This year's climate-fuelled wildfires are the latest acceleration in a multi-decade trend, writes Barry Saxifrage.

The fire department in Slave Lake, Alta., had a long-standing plan for tackling wildfire encroaching on the community, but in May 2011, flames from a nearby forest blew over suppression efforts and destroyed several hundred homes and other buildings.

Ben Wilson’s book Urban Jungle is a nuanced history of urban ecology and its vital role in the climate-change era.

This 26-year-old Vancouverite works for the Canadian Forest Service providing information and analysis on the potential economic interfaces between humans and forests. She also conceived, founded and runs Faces of Forestry.