Forests

"Fishermen like Jose da Cruz have made their living for decades hunting for crabs among Brazil’s vast coastal mangrove forests, dense thickets of twisted plants in deep black mud that grow where fresh-water rivers meet the brackish Atlantic Ocean."

"The Trump administration announced Friday that it will kill a Forest Service program that trains disadvantaged young people for wildland fire fighting and other jobs in rural communities, laying off 1,100 employees — believed to be the largest number of federal job cuts in a decade."

"Alaska’s wettest region is experiencing an extreme drought for the first time in recorded history, climate scientists say."

"When Karen Cakebread was forced to evacuate her home in Calistoga, Calif., during the Tubbs fire in 2017 — and when she lost power at the winery she owns — she realized the danger frequent wildfires could pose to the electricity that powers her daily life."

"Real, visible and consequential ecological catastrophes are playing out all around us."

"Wander into the woods in most places in the eastern United States and you’re likely to come across a towering trunk with sandy-colored, diamond-shaped ridges rising to bare forking branches and little holes peppering the bark, signaling where small, green beetles have crawled out and flown away after doing their dirty work. This decaying monument is — or rather, was — an ash tree. Its kind will not be back in your lifetime, perhaps ever.

"Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing"

"Worms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models."

"The federal Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday renewed mineral rights leases for a proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, a project that environmentalists fear would spoil the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area."

"With spring in full bloom, winter's last stores of snow are beginning to melt. As they do, they'll release much-needed fresh water into streams or the surrounding soil, fueling plant growth and replenishing drinking resources for communities."