Afforestation—establishing forests on previously non-forested land, or where forests have not existed for a long time—is one of the nature-based and cost-effective solutions for climate change ...

Some experts argue that companies shouldn’t make climate claims when they support reforestation. But there are still other reasons we should be growing more trees. Obviously, trees suck up carbon ...

Want to do something good for the Earth? Plant a tree. This common belief, once an inspiration for Earth Day T-shirts, now forms the basis of a booming global industry. As countries try to meet their ...

Planting a tree begins with a seed. Planting a forest, it turns out, takes a whole lot more. Beyond water and soil, and time, there’s something else: It takes a lot of people to plant a forest, people ...

Bill Gates is emphatic: "I don't plant trees," he declared recently, wading into a debate about whether mass tree planting is really much use in fighting climate change. The billionaire philanthropist ...

The last decade has seen a surge in tree-planting and restoration pledges. The Bonn Challenge and New York Declaration on Forests aim to restore 350 million hectares of degraded forests and landscapes ...

To fight climate change, companies and nonprofits have been promoting worldwide planting campaigns. Getting to a trillion is easier said than done. Villagers hired by Eden Reforestation Projects ...