Boreal Forest

Will Climate Talks Give Trees the Brush Off?

Todd Wilkinson | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green


Todd Wilkinson

Conservation biologists now suggest the vast belt of forest and bogs enwrapping Canada, Scandinavia and Russia has largely been overlooked as important catchments for Earth-warming carbon dioxide.

Obama Should Tell Canada's Prime Minister No Thanks on Tar Sands Expansion

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green


Frances Beinecke

My hope is that Obama will not sign on to any joint statements that will help Harper ramp up tar sands production -- a process that accelerates global warming and denudes Canada's great boreal forest.

Is Your Ass Worth One Million Trees a Year?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green


Jennifer Grayson

If every U.S. household swapped out just one four-pack of traditional bath tissue for the recycled version, it would save approximately one million trees a year.

Report Says U.S. Birds in "Widespread Decline," Need Help

Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green


Scott Dodd

Nearly a third of the 800 species of birds in the United States are endangered, threatened or in decline. The decline of birds is a warning sign about the overall health of our environment -- or lack thereof.

President Obama: Don't Give Canadian Tar Sands a Free Climate Pass

Frances Beinecke | Posted 03.21.2009 | World


Frances Beinecke

Tomorrow President Obama is traveling to Canada. Prime Minister Harper wants to discuss giving Canada's dirty tar sands fuel a pass from greenhouse gas limits.

The Birds on the Tar Sands

Susan Cosier | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green


Susan Cosier

Harvesting oil sands in Alberta could impact up to 170 million birds that breed in the boreal.

Politicians Save

Reuters | Deborah Zabarenko | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green


Politicians actually listened when experts told them to protect Canada's boreal forest, a potent weapon against global warming, and the plan for this ...