Deforestation

Deforestation

Four people wearing backpacks and outdoor gear hike through a grassy, forested area with trees in the background under an overcast sky.
The soils of "managed forests" can take decades to rebuild the carbon stocks and microbial communities found in undisturbed forests.
A woman in traditional attire stands among a group of people, next to maps showing global data with colored grids and overlays.
A growing movement shows that protecting the world’s forests — and the people who have safeguarded them for centuries — is one of the most powerful, and overlooked, tools in the fight against climate change.
Skoll Foundation
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1hr 17mins
"It's not that I don't think these problems are big or that they're urgent, but I can start to see that these problems are solvable."
World map showing temperature changes from 1880 to 2024, with warmer regions in red and cooler areas in blue. A timeline runs from 1880 to 2024 at the bottom.
The primary causes of global climate change are all due to human activity. Adding aerosols to our atmosphere only exacerbates the problem.
The cover of the book envisions a sustainable future.
Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.
A man overseeing a herd of cows in an animal agriculture setting.
Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
7mins
What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?