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For 1st time, fires are biggest threat to forests’ climate-fighting superpower

In The News
July 25, 2025

Burned spruce trees are silhouetted against a grey sky

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Mentions Richard A. Birdsey

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In The News
August 22, 2026

A global gathering to tackle the planet’s soil crisis is underway in Mongolia

Read on Inside Climate News Mentions Jennifer D. Watts

kathleen savage takes carbon measurements in howland forest

In The News
July 20, 2026

In the woods of Maine, searching for an answer to the ticking climate bomb

Read on Boston Globe

black cattle in foreground, standing on a field, looking at camera,

Explainer
July 10, 2026

Does regenerative grazing help sequester carbon? We don’t know yet.

Methanotroph bacteria

Feature
April 29, 2026

These tiny organisms could be unsung climate heroes