To the cartographers of the modern conservation world, the forests of northeastern Gabon can appear almost empty. Satellite ...

Chris Taylor works part-time as an independent research consultant. In addition to academic research, Chris has previously undertaken minor research projects for a small number of environmental ...

Two environmental activist groups blasted the World Bank over its reported decision to block a probe into its support of industrial-scale rainforest logging. Greenpeace and Global Witness issued a ...

Though the dense humid forests of Central Africa have been regarded as among the most pristine on Earth, the expansion of industrial logging and the accompanying proliferation of road density are ...

The Tongass Advisory Committee, convened by the U.S. Forest Service to discuss management of the Tongass in a time of transition from old-growth logging, is set to offer recommendations soon.

A new analysis of government data shows that industrial logging is one of Canada’s highest-emitting sectors, and that by ignoring logging’s emissions, Canada is heading to COP27 with a forest-sized ...

The Holiday Farm Fire began on September 7, 2020. The fire charred 173,000 acres along the McKenzie River Valley in western Oregon’s Cascade Range, possibly due to a fallen power line. The fire ...

Since 1940, a national nonprofit group called American Forests has been scouring the U.S., looking for the biggest trees in the land. When they find a big tree, they make measurements, compare with ...

Throughout the winter, activists have occupied a patch of forest on the Polish side of the Carpathian Mountains, demanding protection for what is one of the last remaining stretches of primeval ...

On Wednesday, August 6, Green Diamond Resource Company, an industrial logging company that owns nearly 400,000 acres in Humboldt County, started logging another forest that is being actively defended ...