Boreal Forest

Pipeline supporters and their allies in Congress are trying to capitalize on rising gas prices by claiming the pipeline would lower prices at the pump. That is patently false.

We need to generate visible public excitement not just about what could be stopped, but about what we need to create, and what can positively be accomplished.

In terms of battling climate change, forests are tough to beat: they're not waiting for government seed funding or venture capital for research; they don't require a senate supermajority.

If you're someone who cares about the environment, you're probably ready—really ready—for some good news right now. Despite decades of dispu...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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